| In the end, it would by a Pyrrhic victory if terrorism were defeated at the cost of sacrificing our commitment to those values. |
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| Time will be the judge and I believe that it will show the result of the second Irish referendum to be a Pyrrhic victory. |
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| Mr. Richard Marceau: Ms. Hamel, it's been said that, if the definition of marriage were changed, that might be a Pyrrhic victory. |
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| We fear a Pyrrhic victory in this dispute. |
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| The national socialists who are hoping they can draw together all the malcontents will soon find out that this will turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory. |
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| To persist in wanting this kind of market would be a Pyrrhic victory. |
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| That sounds like a setup for what is known as a Pyrrhic victory. |
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| It was occurring more or less simultaneously throughout much of the British Expeditionary Force, where there was a general recognition that another Pyrrhic victory like the last one might well destroy the army. |
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| Win and it's a Pyrrhic victory, a triumph for political desperation over principle. |
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| It would be a Pyrrhic victory, undermining already shaky intergovernmental relations and leading to the demise of the local air pollution agency. |
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| While I'm against ID cards, the quashing of any such plans would be a Pyrrhic victory. |
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| Kublai botched his campaigns against Annam, Champa, and Java, but won a Pyrrhic victory against Burma. |
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| The attack on the Allied airfields was a Pyrrhic victory, damaging or destroying 495 Allied planes, most of them on the ground, at the cost of 277 German planes and 213 pilots. |
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| If we carry on carping about the way things are and keep on interfering in them, then, far from achieving what we want to achieve, the whole thing will end up turning out to be a Pyrrhic victory. |
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| This might well be a Pyrrhic victory, but we shall have to wait and see. |
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| But I feel it will be a Pyrrhic victory for both sides, I myself fall into the category of the Nimby, local resident and save the festival site campaigner. |
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| But it could be a pyrrhic victory which does the West no good in the long term. |
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| More troops would be sent, and eventually the British would grind their way to a pyrrhic victory. |
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| The Liberals bought a pyrrhic victory, one that will sow the seeds of its own destruction. |
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| Yet win he did, and that pyrrhic victory effectively condemned the party to the position it occupies today. |
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| Unless that is done, any military success in Afghanistan will be a pyrrhic victory. |
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| 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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| The Khomeinists will do well, but will lack legitimacy, and it may be a pyrrhic victory for them. |
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| Nine times out of ten I lost, and made his a pyrrhic victory at best. |
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| The pyrrhic victory came as violence continues unabated in Gujarat. |
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| But Howard Kurtz says it could prove a pyrrhic victory that could threaten his second-term agenda. |
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| TurfTV may have got Stan James on side but it looks very much a pyrrhic victory to me. |
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| It will be a pyrrhic victory, of course, what with Big Brother being watched by millions of people and me getting three readers on a good day. |
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| He then led 4-2 against Wayne Jones before Woody sank back-to-back 11-darters and a 12-darter to nick a pyrrhic victory. |
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| For the council, however, it is something of a pyrrhic victory. |
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| Another pyrrhic victory is likely to be added to an already long list. |
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| No doubt, Sunday's win could turn out to be a pyrrhic victory. |
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| A pyrrhic victory occurs when the present costs of implementing a new information system outbalance future productivity gains. |
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| However, It was a pyrrhic victory as the battle left Hywel ab Ithel mortally wounded. |
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