Sentences with phrase «of pyrrhic»

1 Jan. 20, 2017)(unpublished) was somewhat of a pyrrhic victor for plaintiff on appeal.

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.

Crime & Federalism co-blogger Timothy Sandefur is steeping in a great case study of the Pyrrhic world of California redevelopment policy.

His efforts to recover his situations are pathetic and his triumph at the end is the very definition of Pyrrhic.

«If Cuomo prevails, it would be a classic definition of a Pyrrhic victory,» says one black Democratic lawmaker.

By continuing to slight «the life of the mind,» warns Hatch, evangelicals, for all their success at reaching people at large, «must sooner or later face the specter of Pyrrhic victory.»

Not exact matches

What appear now to be significant «wins» for Trump may turn into pyrrhic victories, as America loses its competitive edge and hiring declines instead of increasing.

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.

A third ideology is clearly flexing its muscles today» threatening to make those victories of the last century merely 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.

I've written before that five consecutive appearances in the final of the Copa Del Rey have become pyrrhic for Barca.

The West is full of monuments from Tucson to Mountain Meadows of famous shoot - outs and massacres that usually brought nothing more that pyrrhic victories for one side.

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.

This article is from the April issue of Total Politics The National Secular Society's (NSS) pyrrhic...

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.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

«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.

He wrote: «In this compensation case, a victory for the MoD in October at the court of appeal would come against the backdrop of a giant neon sign saying spelling out the word «Pyrrhic».

«Unfortunately, the sale will be a Pyrrhic victory for five reasons: It is way too expensive, it undermines U.S. corruption policy, it overlooks recent human rights abuses, it won't help Nigeria fight the Boko Haram of tomorrow, and it won't foster closer defense cooperation.»

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.

There's no moral stake in scrambling for scraps, just this Pyrrhic duty to compete, lust fast - cooling on the proverbial sheets, damp and rumpled as they are from a lot of impotent thrusting.

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.

For the other side of the debate, please see Pyrrhic Victories?

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

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.

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.»

If you are still solvent, you will reap some reward for your fiscal rectitude as prices rise again, and the Saudis breathe a sigh of relief, congratulating themselves for winning a very expensive game of «chicken,» or, a Pyrrhic economic war.

After the Pyrrhic bloodshed of Nier: Automata, Gravity Rush 2's themes are a comforting wraparound.

@ApesMa: disqus If Nintendo won the generation, it was the most Pyrrhic of victories.

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.

Yes, today was a victory — but it's up to all of us and some good old fashioned activism to make sure it's not a pyrrhic one.

That's the image you need to conjure up if you want to feel the rage of the leftists / liberals over being denied their Pyrrhic victory over reason and common sense.

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.

He won that case (and another similar lawsuit was settled), but these are somewhat Pyrrhic victories for the profession as a whole: you can get overtime for your doc review job, but only by admitting that doc review is not the practice of law.

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.

This pyrrhic «victory» of Eweida and the unseemly conduct of her fellow claimants will probably lead to a situation where employment lawyers start advising employers to be very careful about employing people with strong religious beliefs.

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.

Myself, I admit to some doubts: the reasoning of the decision suggests that any victory is Pyrrhic at best.

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.

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».

Arguments for privacy appear rather pyrrhic, as if the child remains with his parents the community will already be aware of his predicament, as care proceedings per se involve a public examination of everyone one who has, or has had, contact with the child and his family by court officials.