Sentences with phrase «hollow victory»

In return they received a pledge that the UK would not join the euro over the course of the next Parliament (which is an entirely hollow victory since there was no chance that any party would have pushed for euro entry in the next Parliament).
«In almost twenty years of practice, I have determined that when relationships fail, all other successes in life become hollow victories.
Even if our partner agrees with us, we may discover that it is a rather hollow victory: Our partner may simply have agreed with us to keep the peace, and may gradually end up becoming more distant from us, as they increasingly begin to feel that there is no room in the relationship for them to be who they are.
I was 100 % victorious in the end, but it was a hollow victory because I'll never get back the time I spent fighting that company.
There were suggestions from the TV pundits after Arsenal beat West Bromwich Albion on Thursday evening that it was something of a hollow victory, not only because our chances of the Premier League title are realistically over but due to the fact that there is no longer any pressure on the players to perform.
The fees paid for Firmino and Benteke were steep, but even considering the # 50 million banked from selling Torres to Chelsea, it is still somewhat a hollow victory.
At first it seems as if Langone agrees, as he says he has personally warned the AG his expected gubernatorial win could be a «hollow victory» if he doesn't stop slamming Wall Street — the economic engine of New York.
He battled hard for a giant swath of the vote in the months leading up to the primary to avoid any appearance of a hollow victory.
Nina Sayer, a psychologist and the director of Department of Veterans Affairs research into polytrauma and blast - related injuries for returning veterans, says that if the United States wins overseas but fails to care for its soldiers back home, it's a hollow victory, indeed.
Still, this is at best a hollow victory.
It's less than a hollow victory.
By the measures of the strategic plan, an elementary school with no students reading on grade level could be considered a success because 100 % of its students have a plan for their future — a hollow victory, it seems.
They agreed to cut their testing by 50 per cent in 2005, thus calling Ferrari's bluff and rendering any 2005 Italian walkover a hollow victory.
The Porsche hits 163mph before it runs out of runway, but it's a hollow victory.
A hollow victory at best, I would guess.
This is a hollow victory for lsuc as it will just cost money when they lose the same case again.
This may be a hollow victory for Upper Deck, which recently settled a copyright suit brought by Major League Baseball, in the process making clear that its days as a baseball card producer are over now that MLB has signed an exclusive deal with Topps (for which, incidentally, Upper Deck made an unsuccessful takeover bid a few years back).
Crystal said Cody was «vindicated» by Friday's ruling, but he characterized it as a hollow victory.
For Lee, however, the $ 4,677 may be a hollow victory since the rogue dentist is now nowhere to be found.
He learned that with a profoundly lengthy unemployment, his names collection was a hollow victory.
These have been hollow victories.
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