That realisation seems to be reflected in the valuations of American casinos: a group of private equity investors is offering just over $15 billion to buy Harrah's, the world's largest casino operator.One of the more ironic consequences of the new law is that it may have made British-based online gambling companies vulnerable to takeover by America's casino groups.
This article investigates the goals, practices, and effects of the street clean-up plan in Bangkok's old town and shows the ironic consequences of the plan: the streets became less safe.
By Hendrik Hertzberg June 28 , 2012The Obamacare decision highlights an ironic consequence of lifetime Supreme Court tenure in an age of ideological polarization and routine filibusters.
But a sad and ironic consequence of this war is that its fumbling prosecution has undermined its only even arguably meritorious rationale — and, as a further consequence, the salience of idealism in American foreign policy has been likewise undermined.
The large number of family migrants is an unintended, even ironic, consequence of actions taken by Congress and successive administrations to make life miserable for immigrants regardless of legal status.
Mr. Douthat's defense of Eisenhower's presidency as one marked by greatness "manifested in the crises he defused and the mistakes he did not make" may, however, have the ironic consequence of buttressing the myth of Eisenhower the cipher that he seeks to topple.
When he died, an expensive film in which he had starred, "Giant," had yet to be released, and the picture's press agents, seeking to offset any ill effects that Dean's demise might have on the commercial prospects of their product, succeeded by "glamorizing" the tragedy, and, in ironic consequence, created a Dean legend of rather necrophilic appeal.
The Sack was so horrific as to cause an ironic consequence.
If it's any comfort, Reyna concludes that this distorted judgment is the ironic consequence of a cognitively advanced style of thinking, an intuitive style perhaps more suitable for finding meaning in the murky world of spies and counterspies.
Such phrases can reinforce negative stereotypes among Californians, who are a people in a state already surfeited with a smug sense of superiority and, as an ironic consequence, a parochialism and insularity at odds with the innovation, prosperity and openness for which California is rightly known.
Successful conservation management of large mammals has the ironic consequence of problems associated with overpopulation [1].
