How To Use Pyrrhic victory In A Sentence
- But at the High Court this month he won what can only be described as a pyrrhic victory, ending his battle against what he and many others see as the closed and unaccountable world of private hospitals.
- More troops would be sent, and eventually the British would grind their way to a pyrrhic victory.
- The Khomeinists will do well, but will lack legitimacy, and it may be a pyrrhic victory for them.
- If the president succeeds in imposing ObamaCare, it will be a Pyrrhic victory. Well, at least he didn’t blame it all on the Jews. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
- The American veto officially blocked the resolution, in a classic example of a pyrrhic victory. William Bradley: If Obama Loses, It Won't Be Because "It's the Economy, Stupid"
- Barack Obama signs health care bill amid warnings of Pyrrhic victory.
- In a pyrrhic victory, I watch the American half of my children merge - more gracefully than I - into Kiwis.
- Perhaps the specter of losing the nomination after being dubbed the putative front runner, or of gaining the nomination in a bitterly divisive nomination contest then losing the presidency, might be likened to a Pyrrhic victory. Gloria Feldt: Which Greek Tragedy are Hillary and Bill Enacting?
- No doubt, Sunday's win could turn out to be a pyrrhic victory.
- It would have been a pyrrhic victory had he succeeded: Satyanand revealed that the police file had disappeared.