Sentences with word «pyrrhic»

A myopic focus on chasing the MacGuffin is a recipe for Pyrrhic victory.

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.»

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.

Watching the diminishing prospects of the doomed gunmen in Free Fire makes you wonder if there is such a thing as pyrrhic defeat.

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Although this is a victory for the profession, let's hope it is not Pyrrhic.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.»

Any victory at this stage would be Pyrrhic at best.

So, is it possible to see signs that may help indicate when «victories» are going to turn Pyrrhic?

Art history has been grossly discriminatory, and an embrace of feminism by an establishment figurehead such as Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, including Iwan Wirth himself, feels pyrrhic.

No, the great Pyrrhic victory of the Fed has been to enable the third most extreme financial bubble in history, on the basis of capitalization - weighted indices, and the single most extreme bubble in history from the standpoint of individual stocks.

Besides, as time passed, Schlafly's victory over the ERA began to seem Pyrrhic, for all the evils that she and other opponents had said would ensue were the amendment ratified — no - holds - barred abortion, same - sex marriage, gender quotas, even co-ed bathrooms — ensued anyway, by other legislative, judicial, administrative, and extra-legal means.

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

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

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.

Decay, loss of memory, insecurity, arrogance: Assayas boils these monolithic themes down to a near - pyrrhic partnership between an aging French actress (Juliette Binoche) and her American assistant (Kristen Stewart), following their commingling of generations (and cultural heritages) as they traipse through one fiction after another.

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.

Frazier's images of the American heartland's black working class pay witness to deep devastation and tiny, pyrrhic triumphs.

«Without a political system and an economy where the lower and middle class feel somewhat secure and optimistic, I fear that our polarized political system will trade a sustainable future for a few pyrrhic years of near term growth.»

Given costs offers, if any, and the new proportionality requirements, tt may turn out that Vigna's victory is pyrrhic even if Levant doesn't appeal.

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.

It represents a small, perhaps Pyrrhic, victory.

In short, some forces of reform are busy marching into the sea and turning notable victories into Pyrrhic ones.

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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.

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.

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

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

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

That kind of gender - war sexuality results only in pyrrhic victories.

Laing O'Rourke had a pyrrhic victory in the Court of Appeal today, when it managed to overturn a previous adverse ruling but it appears the construction contractor still won't be getting the $ 45 million it was awarded by an adjudicator in 2015.

But if it means that health - care costs grow rapidly, gobbling up the gains in workers» incomes, then the victory is Pyrrhic.

But if the $ 61 billion the feds say has been spent is responsible for the rescue, one respondent says the victory is pyrrhic.

Enjoy your Pyrrhic victory, guys!

Perhaps he may declare a pyrrhic one.

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.

Stopping Trump would be a Pyrrhic victory.

She simply wants to send a message to President Donald Trump by making a pyrrhic attempt to purchase his main...