Sentences with phrase «pyrrhic victory in»

If no alleged perpetrators of fraud at major companies or banks end up being sent to prison, then the mere payment of large fines is a distinctly Pyrrhic victory in the long - term battle against fraud.

I attribute a huge chunk of dropping share of eBooks largely to the publishers» Pyrrhic victory in raising eBooks prices compared to dead - tree, of course.

After all, we've just witnessed the biggest Pyrrhic victory in the annals of federal education policy.

The Prime Minister is determined to avoid a Pyrrhic victory in the European referendum campaign

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The time it has taken investors and traders to wrap their heads around Trump's industry tariffs and the pyrrhic victory of two solar companies in a case against cheap Chinese imports has seen stocks rally in a big way, and then fall just as hard.

Eleven years later, with same - sex marriage now the law of the land thanks to the Supreme Court, transgender bathroom use mandatory in schools thanks to the Obama administration, and the drafting of women a serious (and Republican - supported) proposition for Congress, it's hard not to view Schlafly's anti-ERA victory as somewhat Pyrrhic.

The public events of an obscene war, presidential corruption, worldwide inflation and arbitrary tenor have been thrust back upon us in the stark depression of Godfather I and II, the bathos of Love Story and the Pyrrhic victory of The Exorcist.

It used to be whatever positive moves they would make, it would all feel like a Pyrrhic victory, because you knew that the coach would never use what he had at his disposal in anything approaching an optimal manner.

It eventually won the case, but it was a Pyrrhic victory: the organisation responsible for publishing the booklet in Switzerland was ordered to pay only a token fine.

And even if he does win, it would be a pyrrhic victory which would cost him a lot personally, cost the party a disastrous general election defeat and cost the country a bigger Tory majority and the arrival of UKIP in our Parliament.

With the Queens GOP engaged in a great civil war, the loss of clout compounded by a pyrrhic victory by Phil Ragusa over Tom Ognibene, the party is in shambles and far too fractal to field any viable candidates.

«With the savage cuts that will undoubtedly be announced by the Chancellor in the autumn Comprehensive Spending Review, the introduction of the pupil premium will represent nothing more than a Pyrrhic victory for the Liberal Democrats who originally advocated this policy.

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Powerful portrait of an officer and his soldiers facing up to what it means to serve in an army of a fallible, democratic country that spins an explosive pyrrhic victory

In District 12, a few months after they beat the system to become the first joint winners of the seventy - fourth annual Hunger Games, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) find their victory Pyrrhic.

Day - Lewis» strained shouts, his pleading, shaking body show a man who's resolved to find some victory, however pyrrhic, to cement himself as one of the few who did not give himself over to a plague of hysteria and hatred, as well as someone who can finally look his wife in the eye with love rather than shame.

Another of 2009's wasteland flicks, complete with pyrrhic victories and a rather gauche nihilism clothed in unearned sentiment (see also: 9), Zombieland is also a comedy that's not funny and a zombie movie that's not scary.

In short, some forces of reform are busy marching into the sea and turning notable victories into Pyrrhic ones... [Too many school reformers] dismiss concerns that their reforms do nothing for suburban schools or may adversely affect them.

A lot of things that looked like heady victories in the halcyon days of 2010 and 2011 look more like Pyrrhic ones in retrospect.

In other words, supporters hope this summer's court ruling, which cited Colorado's Blaine Amendment to strike down the Douglas County voucher program, may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for school choice opponents.

Published in Print: April 5, 2017, as «The New Teacher - Evaluation Laws: Education's Pyrrhic Victory?»

Ultimately, in the grand competition that is the market for consumer attention, the fact that books aren't really improving while everything else is getting better means the publishers may in the end be celebrating the most pyrrhic of victories.»

A successful outcome in any litigation may be a Pyrrhic victory for participating VXGN shareholders.

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It has driven us across stormy seas and mountains; for the Cup of Gold; and rewarded us with the hollow, pyrrhic victories of ostentation and pretence, rewarded us with the complexities of paranoia, troubled legacies, dynasties of paper, minarets that climb heavenward unto the raging storm... I seek bold buccaneers with ice in their veins and fire in their hearts!

Who am I to comment upon these matters suffice to say I «ve had a few wines to celebrate, hopefully not a pyrrhic victory, but a resounding hallelujah to the heavens, and I hope I don't regret my comments another day, but this must qualify as a fine, fine blog entry of the highest calibre, and, perhaps today, in the way aforementioned of the most immediate import.

If 2007 was a minimum we did not even expect since in 25 years from thence that already has been repeated twice before 2020, why would you celebrate your Pyrrhic victory by dancing a touchdown dance on your own line of 20?

He won a victory (albeit a financially Pyrrhic one) not just for himself but for all those of us who trade in robust opinion and who believe that English libel laws are outrageously biased in favour of vexatious complainants, which is why we have unfortunately become a haven for libel tourists, some of them representing unspeakable causes.

So despite the rather Pyrrhic victory of the Commission in this case, it might want to reconsider how to deal with transparency issues involving international agreements in the future.

But with its bottling plants and market in China, that's a pyrrhic victory.

While Cynthia's brother thus secured a larger interest in Cynthia's estate, this victory may be pyrrhic as legal costs will likely eat up a large portion of the estate.

While ultimately somewhat of a pyrrhic victory for Hu, this case is nonetheless a strong reminder that even in situations of clear oppressive conduct, some compensable injury is necessary for any damages or other monetary relief to be awarded.

Having already concluded that the settlement offer was not one which ought to have reasonably been accepted, it is evident that an order requiring the plaintiff to either pay the well - funded defendants» costs, or in the alternative denying the plaintiff her costs, from September 20, 2016 onwards, would result in a pyrrhic victory and could have the effect of discouraging plaintiffs from pursuing valid claims.

However, the CJEU's judgment of 6 September 2017 — even though enthusiastically welcomed by the EU institutions, most of the Member States, and in the academic world — is said to have been a «pyrrhic victory».

«When the broadcasters won as they did, I thought it was a pyrrhic victory, because in the background was this 1976 law, which says that if you're a cable company and you want to distribute local content, that there was a compulsory license that would be exacted on you but which would allow to you carry the local channels,» he told the E-Commerce...

Even if the correct litigants ultimately prevail in these cases, it is a Pyrrhic Victory.