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How to use pyrrhic in a sentence

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Let our political discourse focus on this, and perhaps, more pyrrhic victories can be avoided.
To date he has won only pyrrhic victories on foundation hospitals and university top-up fees.
Unless that is done, any military success in Afghanistan will be a pyrrhic victory.
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.
The Khomeinists will do well, but will lack legitimacy, and it may be a pyrrhic victory for them.
The victory was pyrrhic because the Indonesian Police started investigating the company for alleged corruption.
But it could be a pyrrhic victory which does the West no good in the long term.
More troops would be sent, and eventually the British would grind their way to a pyrrhic victory.
The Liberals bought a pyrrhic victory, one that will sow the seeds of its own destruction.
Yet win he did, and that pyrrhic victory effectively condemned the party to the position it occupies today.
No doubt, Sunday's win could turn out to be a pyrrhic victory.
Another pyrrhic victory is likely to be added to an already long list.
The pyrrhic victory came as violence continues unabated in Gujarat.
I too regard abandoning the negotiations more as a pyrrhic victory for the developing countries than as a success.
By not affording the injured party the opportunity to advance a claim in damages, the administrative law remedy may be at best a pyrrhic victory.
Mr Cavallo now hopes to persuade foreign bond-holders to follow suit. But these victories have been pyrrhic.
But Howard Kurtz says it could prove a pyrrhic victory that could threaten his second-term agenda.
This will be a war of attrition and a pyrrhic and Camdean Victory for myself.
It's a pyrrhic symbolic victory that could actually be causing extra environmental damage.
Nine times out of ten I lost, and made his a pyrrhic victory at best.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The McShane family has experienced a victory, but a pyrrhic victory, for no good can come of it for them or Natasha.
The pyrrhic dance of the Greeks was a sort of military Pantomime.
But Methuen's first engagements seemed to him to be pyrrhic victories.
A victory at the hustings without the opposition taking part is but a pyrrhic one.
They had the pyrrhic dances, but they had the pyrrhic phalanx as well!
The Pyrrhic victory was secured by making 50 percent of the nation hate the other 50 percent.
To opt for control of a low income tax take but risk losing Barnett and other funding from Westminster would be a Pyrrhic victory.
The Tartan Army can rhapsodise all they like about Jim Baxter playing keepie-up at Wembley that same year but it was a Pyrrhic victory.
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