Pyrrhic victory

This was if anything a Pyrrhic victory for both states.

For some reason I felt a need to win a pyrrhic victory.

But it will probably prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.

He won what was described as a Pyrrhic victory by 308 to 188.

He knows, of course, that this is perhaps a Pyrrhic victory.

Others say it was not a military failure but a Pyrrhic victory.

The battle was a pyrrhic victory for the British, however.

It could also be a Pyrrhic victory for the writers.

The higher education portfolio, however, was something of a pyrrhic victory.

This might well be a Pyrrhic victory, but we shall have to wait and see.

But the events of the next two days would prove this to be a Pyrrhic victory.

Gould had won, but it was a pyrrhic victory at best.

It is a Pyrrhic victory at best; the rest of us are the losers.

And if we did, it would be a Pyrrhic victory."

To persist in wanting this kind of market would be a Pyrrhic victory.

To many the compromise agreement was seen as a Pyrrhic victory for both sides.

But it turned out to be a pyrrhic victory.

They are the only winners of the Chancellor's pyrrhic victories.

The strategy worked, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.

Like too many of his struggles with death, this proves to be a Pyrrhic victory.

Those were Pyrrhic victories; too many of them and you'll be finished."

The outcome of their potential Pyrrhic victory however makes life a tad better.

Be careful that it does not become a Pyrrhic victory."

My only regret is that he didn't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory.

"Should hundreds and thousands of lives be sacrificed to achieve this Pyrrhic victory?"