1.   Farm subsidies now fuel a battle in Congress that is charged by no small measure of political irony.

2.   In Vladivostok, as across Russia, the political ironies might raise more laughs if they did not have such dire consequences for the residents.

3.   Sen. Bob Dole, who has all but locked up the Republican nomination, has not yet tried to exploit this political irony.

4.   The positions staked out by GOP moderates Grace and Gerard place them at the heart of a sweet political irony.

5.   The rules of political irony dictate that in such a situation, we can confidently expect Cheney to pull at least a few surprises.

6.   Today, in one more example of political irony, Symington is himself a governor under fire for questionable financial dealings.

7.   It was a hoary constitutional ritual that made up with political irony and shouted objections what it lacked in suspense.

8.   It was a stroke of political irony that had the vanquished Gore presiding over the session, one of the duties of the vice president.