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"
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  • 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.
  • Given an opportunity to win only a small victory (or, in your case, a pyrrhic victory), will you take a significant risk? Beating the Odds: Why Do People Insist on Even Bets?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • She won the court case, but it was a Pyrrhic victory because she had to pay so much in legal fees.
  • Another pyrrhic victory is likely to be added to an already long list.
  • This was indeed a Pyrrhic victory, because West Indies cricket was assuredly the loser.
  • But it could be a pyrrhic victory which does the West no good in the long term.
  • Rather than settling for a costly pyrrhic victory on these issues, the Commission should heed the call of the National Organizations - and countless others - to defer any necessary regulatory fixes to Congress and instead focus on addressing the issues of most immediate importance. David Honig: A Decisive Moment for Broadband Internet Access
  • She won the court case, but it was a Pyrrhic victory because she had to pay so much in legal fees.
  • I don't know where the pain-killer story will lead, but the football story is probably a pyrrhic victory for the thought control police.
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  • If not getting the World Cup is a victory, then surely it's a kind of pyrrhic victory. The Guardian World News
  • She won the court case, but it was a Pyrrhic victory because she had to pay so much in legal fees.
  • A more ‘equitable’, though ruined, Venezuela would be a pyrrhic victory indeed.
  • Analysts at Moody's Investors Service warned in a November report that limiting bonuses would be a "pyrrhic victory for taxpayers. Fannie Counsel Is Internal CEO Candidate
  • For the council, however, it is something of a pyrrhic victory.
  • Yet win he did, and that pyrrhic victory effectively condemned the party to the position it occupies today.
  • I had him flogged, but it was a pyrrhic victory: the woman promptly ran off with the peasant, and the tour guide with my money.
  • Nine times out of ten I lost, and made his a pyrrhic victory at best.
  • The Liberals bought a pyrrhic victory, one that will sow the seeds of its own destruction.
  • The pyrrhic victory came as violence continues unabated in Gujarat.
  • If the U.S. wins the battle of competitive devaluation, it may prove to be a pyrrhic victory, as our gains come at the expense of others — including those to whom we hope to export. Why Easier Money Won't Work
  • Unless that is done, any military success in Afghanistan will be a pyrrhic victory.
  • But, as 2002 revealed, it had been a pyrrhic victory.

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