In retrospect, it was also something of a Pyrrhic one.
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But in the end it would be a Pyrrhic victory.
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Duncan's complaint describes a pyrrhic victory against the plaintiffs' firm.
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It would be a huge pyrrhic victory and rank hypocrisy.
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As it turned out, it was not a pyrrhic chase.
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If these are Pyrrhic victories, they confer real psychological benefits.
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My average speed was 15 mph, my arrival a pyrrhic victory.
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Despite numerous WTO "victories" for the U.S., most have been pyrrhic.
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But any victory at this point would be a Pyrrhic one.
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Any victory in this battle would be worse than merely pyrrhic.
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While the governor prevailed in court, his is a pyrrhic victory.
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The cartel cannot declare even Pyrrhic victory from the past two years.
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Advances sometimes felt Pyrrhic, though, given Musk's tendency to announce ambitious milestones.
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Without that any military victory would be a pyrrhic victory, he said.
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Other companies with Pyrrhic victories against hostile bidders may be similarly vulnerable.
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Moreover, in many cases, an import substitution victory would be a Pyrrhic one.
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Instead this week's pyrrhic victory will come at the price of his legitimacy.
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But what looked like an easy propaganda victory turned out to be Pyrrhic.
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Flush with the euphoria of victory, he felt then it could be pyrrhic.
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The Republican agenda could well crash and burn in a more pyrrhic fashion.
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The episode's remaining minutes are given up to a pair of pyrrhic conquests.
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McConnell's successful effort to exclude testimony from the president's trial is a Pyrrhic victory.
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But what a Pyrrhic victory it is, with a lowly $43.8 million take (estimated).
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Marshall's opinion in Marbury handed the Jefferson administration a legal, but rather pyrrhic, victory.
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But unless SoftBank can turn WeWork around quickly, it could be a Pyrrhic victory.
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But that might be a Pyrrhic victory: Egypt would never extradite anyone for trial.
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In the end, the party's success Wednesday may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.
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South Africa has cracked down on its informal economy, but it is a Pyrrhic victory.
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While the move was widely welcomed among the ranks, it is perhaps a pyrrhic victory.
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But Republicans will have to work hard to insure that AHCA is no Pyrrhic victory.
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That was a mistake: their Pyrrhic victory at the FCC will now turn to ashes.
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Yet their successful shutdown of the event may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory.
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Xi Jinping, the president, has scored one more small, Pyrrhic victory over Western cultural influence.
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A Pyrrhic victory is one achieved at "excessive cost," according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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The suit was decided in favor of the U.S.F.L., but the victory was a Pyrrhic one.
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Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday was a Pyrrhic victory -- a short-term win within the Senate chamber.
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Though he says he felt vindicated by the ruling, Kokkinos regards it as a pyrrhic victory.
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Either winner of a court case here might achieve only a pyrrhic, symbolic victory at best.
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A win for the Zubik plaintiffs, in Mr Laycock's eyes, would be "Pyrrhic in the extreme".
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Thirty years ago, his claimed defeat of Mr. Griffin turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory.
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And this impasse is painful, because in a battle where both feel betrayed, victory is Pyrrhic. 13.
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Daredevil's fights have always been at their most exhilarating when his victories are narrow or even pyrrhic.
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The festivities included a Spartan phalanx, duels, dancers performing the traditional Pyrrhic war dance, and wrestling demonstrations.
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As Miracle Mile goes to show, in nuclear war there can be nothing other than pyrrhic victories.
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Assuming these barriers can be overcome, a victory under the APA could prove something of pyrrhic victory.
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That immersion is somewhat of a Pyrrhic victory, however, because the bottom bezel and logo are ridiculously oversized.
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However, Lizzie is one of those death-or-glory people, one whose efforts end up Pyrrhic at best.
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The big picture: The announcement marks an important political victory for Trump, and a pyrrhic one for Mexico.
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Churchill attained his goal — albeit Pyrrhic, short-term and, to modern thinking, immoral — to maintain the British Empire.
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Proposition 2628 passed by a wide margin and Wilson won a second term, but they were Pyrrhic victories.
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But if the militias aren't eventually gotten under control, then any victory against ISIS might end up Pyrrhic.
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It's a victory, yes, but a pyrrhic one that hurts more, in some ways, than a loss would have.
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Even apparent opposition successes, such as those in September 2016 legislative elections, have turned out to be pyrrhic victories.
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Britain's decision to leave the European Union was, from one angle, a final, Pyrrhic victory for British print journalism.
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And, Pyrrhic indeed, Brexit is expected to lead to a further $260 million reduction in media buying next year.
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My fear is that South Carolina was to the Biden campaign what the Pyrrhic War was to the Greeks.
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The Vietnam War ended with the Soviet-Vietnamese victory but, for Moscow at least, it was a Pyrrhic victory.
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That pyrrhic victory changed history, but not the way time-traveling Detroit native Adam Strange (Shaun Sipos) hoped it would.
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Outlasting Mr Bush, in a face-off that once appeared pivotal to the contest, now seems a distinctly pyrrhic achievement.
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Pyrrhic victories If the Umbrella Movement was a high point for Hong Kong's democrats, it's been largely downhill from there.
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Declaring a Pyrrhic victory of sorts, the plaintiffs accepted the settlement the day after Phase 2 of the trial began.
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But any deal would likely be more a pyrrhic victory than an agreement that resolves any of the underlying structural issues.
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"Because even if they win, which I'm not sure they did, think of what a Pyrrhic victory it is," he said.
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Factory farms may make it possible to feed more people, but their environmental effects may make their efficiency a Pyrrhic victory.
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President Trump and his allies may see his brinkmanship as a victory, but it will prove to be a Pyrrhic one.
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Even the $700 billion for the Pentagon that Republicans are crowing about as a "victory" is a Pyrrhic one at best.
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That's not what you'd call patriotic — and it's the main reason Republicans will come to rue their pyrrhic victory on taxes.
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At midnight, Constable Richard Chant finally persuaded the woman to go to a different hospital, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.
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But if it means that health-care costs grow rapidly, gobbling up the gains in workers' incomes, then the victory is Pyrrhic.
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Even when a judge ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was violating antitrust law, conventional wisdom held that the victory was largely pyrrhic.
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Populist parties have suffered similarly Pyrrhic victories across the West, following their stunning successes in 2015 and 2016 with setbacks and stalls.
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A man in his thirties or forties pointing to his sexual relationship with a teenage girl as technically legal is a Pyrrhic victory.
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"Even if they win, which I'm not sure they did, think of what a pyrrhic victory it is," Peltz told CNBC on Tuesday.
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On the one hand, denizens of the organized left may enjoy a brief period of gloating, but their victory is Pyrrhic at best.
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"While recapturing Raqqa is important symbolically, talk about almost a pyrrhic victory," said Bilal Saab, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute.
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Immediately after the discredited balloting and Maduro's pyrrhic victory, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order intended to choke off financing to the regime.
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His overall victory may be Pyrrhic, however, as he may well have to spend more time in future trying to hold the Communion together.
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The series captures the pyrrhic nature of victories in the criminal justice system: They are big wins, to be sure, but for whom, really?
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After this Pyrrhic publication, I'll be peering beyond peer review to share Air Climate Energy (ACE) research and analysis with the timeliness they require.
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The heroism of Reynolds, Muflahi and Reed in the face of occupying forces are minuscule, pyrrhic triumphs in an ever-rising sea of blood.
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Unless the transition to a clean energy economy is based on unifying politics, this next iteration will also prove another adventure in pyrrhic rhetoric.
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Without stopping the clock on the CPP, the pyrrhic fate of the EPA's Mercury Air Toxic Standard (MATS) awaits state governments across the country.
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Successful bipartisan deal-making these days can be but a Pyrrhic victory for politicians whose efforts oft result in the threat of being primaried.
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Ms. Chow said that ruling was a "Pyrrhic victory," because it still upheld the ability of officials to disqualify candidates based on their political beliefs.
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If the party on the losing side of one of these swap agreements goes bankrupt and defaults, the winner will enjoy only a pyrrhic victory.
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John Beisner, a lawyer for the company, said he expected the verdict to be a "pyrrhic victory for plaintiffs' counsel" that could be slashed significantly.
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If the Democratic Party adopts "democratic socialism" for its identity, it would be a Pyrrhic victory at best — for the Sanders wing of the party.
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This was a not quite a lost Los Angeles sojourn for the Knicks, a team for whom the term Pyrrhic victory might have been coined.
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"What we feel is we created Pyrrhic victory for them," Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said in an interview.
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True to form, Daryl takes the lead, tucking and rolling out of the truck just in time — though their victory may be Pyrrhic after all.
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While the grizzly was protected under the Endangered Species Act , "take" was prohibited, and hunters could avoid fighting this pyrrhic battle on the moral low ground.
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Any rushed victory would most likely prove pyrrhic — further fragmenting the civil-war-ravaged country and pushing it toward a new phase of armed sectarian politics.
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It was a gambit that would have made Pyrrhus of Epirus, namesake of the Pyrrhic victory — or one that inflicts substantial damage on the winner — blush.
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The animal gods are majestic in their size and sympathetic in their agony, and yet are also vengeful and combative, their attacks alternately pyrrhic or pointless.
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At a minimum, Republicans could have used regular order as a tool to turn spending increases into a Pyrrhic victory for President Obama and congressional Democrats.
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Washington seems to be calculating that if Maduro scores a Pyrrhic victory, and is left governing a ravaged economy, military and social pressure will become unbearable.
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"Today they're enjoying a pyrrhic victory, without a doubt," said opposition lawmaker Freddy Guevara, who joined a group of opposition sympathizers in an upscale neighborhood of Caracas.
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Though the Entebbe raid is often described as one of the most spectacular military missions of modern times, Mr. Padilha sees it as an ultimately Pyrrhic victory.
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The result may be that Pence won the debate only to lose influence with Trump — and the conservatives celebrating tonight's win might be experiencing a Pyrrhic victory.
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A classic case of a Pyrrhic victory where the cost of winning is vastly outweighed by the tremendous damage done to the party's long-term political viability.
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After Russia's resounding victory in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, a victory that now turns out to have been Pyrrhic, Putin sent unidentified troops to seize Crimea.
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Of course, if the FBI was attempting to set a precedent for forcing tech companies to assist in investigations, this solution is a Pyrrhic victory for the Bureau.
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But they should be careful what they wish for: winning the Amazon beauty pageant might be the ultimate pyrrhic victory, especially if the winner offers too many subsidies.
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So even if Mr Hunt believes he has secured a deal around weekend working, it could be a Pyrrhic victory if it does not resolve long-term funding.
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Still, what's interesting about this take on the case is that if the court upholds the agency on reclassification, then it may be the most Pyrrhic of victories.
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Quite a pyrrhic victory in the end -- and one the United States must find some way of overcoming if it is ever to assume any leadership role again.
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But they should be careful what they wish for: winning the Amazon beauty pageant might be the ultimate Pyrrhic victory, especially if the winner offers too many subsidies.
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But many food executives fretted that those were Pyrrhic victories, since their own research was showing that most consumers wanted to know what foods contained genetically engineered ingredients.
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" But Flake added that if this "put at risk our institutions and our values," it raised the question of "whether any such policy victories wouldn't be Pyrrhic ones.
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From the beginning, with 1984's The Terminator, the series was primarily about one thing: the merciless, pyrrhic single-mindedness a machine soldier could bring to its missions.
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Thompson said the case is somewhat like a pyrrhic victory because of the cost that includes Lott being required to be employed despite health problems that include back issues.
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It's a pyrrhic kind of victory and it means hip-hop has become the soundtrack to people's lives, coloring their interactions with blackness and black culture in divergent terms.
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He still may win, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory when his own colleagues refuse to seat him and ask the governor to send over a new name.
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While this legislation was eventually passed on a strict party line, many analysts view the effort as being severely flawed (no CBO score) and a Pyrrhic victory for Trump.
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The Huawei lawsuit would be "a pyrrhic victory at best" in the face of the new US restrictions, said Paul Triolo, who specializes in global technology policy at Eurasia Group.
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Even though America's Department of Commerce ruled in Boeing's favour on December 20th—setting tariffs of 292% on imports of the C-Series from Canada—it is a Pyrrhic victory.
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His rough edges pushed him to great heights as a military hero (his victory at the Battle of New Orleans was the saving grace of the pyrrhic War of 1812).
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In the 20 debates after which they've polled, only one yielded a larger margin for the winner — Mitt Romney's pyrrhic victory over President Obama in their first encounter in 85033.
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But if it drags into 2017, and Maduro loses, it would be a Pyrrhic victory for the opposition as Maduro's handpicked vice president would take over for the ruling party.
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Every time, I am forced to go through a process of rationalizing and acceptance as a define "perfect victory" downward to something that I'd normally describe as "grim" or "Pyrrhic".
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While listing fees are not a major contributor to the revenues of either Nasdaq or NYSE's parent ICE, victory in the battle for tech listings is not a pyrrhic one.
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As impressive as Canada's climate plan may appear, if its adoption requires concessions that will permit expansion of the tar sands industry, it will be, at best, a pyrrhic victory.
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" He is also concerned any victory by the opposition would be pyrrhic because, "Maduro has declared that any elected governor who does not recognize the Constituent Assembly will be invalidated.
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In today's highly integrated trading system, when companies succeed in getting tariffs hiked, retaliatory duties imposed, or quotas raised to shore up local market share, these are usually Pyrrhic victories.
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We'll find out in the next election, and possibly sooner, but Trump winning the presidency could be the most Pyrrhic victory for the GOP since the re-election of Richard Nixon.
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If so, NIFLA's victory may prove pyrrhic: it would buy the demise of the FACT Act at the cost of pro-life messages currently disseminated in dozens of states' examination-rooms.
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But it was a Pyrrhic victory at best, requiring manipulations so unlikely to occur naturally that it only reinforced the notion that we are helplessly trapped in the flow of time.
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Of course, the case for evolutionary change can suddenly seem futile, even Pyrrhic, when we spy a meteor hurtling toward Earth, threatening an extinction event for incremental improvement of all kinds.
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If he is seen as having lost because of rigged rules, anti-Trump Republicans will win a Pyrrhic victory, as many of his backers will walk away in the general election.
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I found that the resulting financial crisis would cause a serious galactic depression of astronomical proportions — so large, in fact, that it suggests the rebel victory might have been a pyrrhic one.
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A Pyrrhic victory of sorts, because that will get new votes for the eurosceptic Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) to see Paris acting as Berlin's junior partner subservient to German interests.
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I had no interest in Newell when it was stuck in a vicious proxy fight, and I told you anyone who won this fight was likely to experience only a Pyrrhic victory.
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But without an endgame strategy on Iran that includes an exit ramp off the escalatory ladder of tensions and a solution to the nuclear problem, Trump's victory will be a Pyrrhic one.
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More recently, in June 2017, faced with a heavily biased pro-statehood referendum, 76.77 percent of the eligible voters boycotted that year's plebiscite, lending statehood a pyrrhic victory without any legitimacy in Washington.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A cat that fell into a goldfish bowl in 1747 and subsequently drowned from her pyrrhic hunt inspired an unlikely series of artworks in the 18th century.
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But it was a pyrrhic victory: Al-Shabaab used Ethiopia's unpopular and haphazard operation in the Somali capital to ride a wave of public resentment that helped rapidly grow its power and influence.
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Privately, union leaders worry that Trump's deals could be a Pyrrhic victory for workers, who may be told that they have to take a steep pay cut in order to keep their jobs.
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"The victory has been somewhat Pyrrhic, with Saudi rather than overseas institutional investors participating in the initial I.P.O.," analysts from Bernstein, a market research firm, wrote in a note to clients on Thursday.
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He designed UN:SOC to prove a wide area megagame could work—which, on balance, it did—and our unscripted pyrrhic victory was exactly the kind of "disjointed and chaotic" outcome he'd hoped for.
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Tasha: As far as Game of Thrones goes, my problem is that I've always believed in George R.R. Martin as a sentimental closet romantic who wants his victories messy, Pyrrhic, hard-earned, and bittersweet.
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Not destined to win, but still visually astonishing: the six-minute solo pencil-on-paper piece "Prologue," which largely follows a gory, pyrrhic battle between four photorealistically drawn warriors, two of them graphically nude.
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Chastened by his pyrrhic victory, Mr Sánchez chose to eat his words and accept a coalition in which Mr Iglesias would probably be a deputy prime minister and have two or three other ministries.
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But one top strategist who served as a Trump stand-in for one of his top rivals in the Republican primary debate prep sessions said defeating Trump on policy points was a pyrrhic victory.
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It's between vicious debates that yield pyrrhic victories and fail to deliver real change, or a better, more pragmatic approach to intraparty debate that gives America a chance to tackle its most pressing challenges.
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Had about 100,393 of these voters across the three states voted for her instead of Trump, she would be president–elect now, instead of sitting on a possible two-million vote Pyrrhic popular vote victory.
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As one lawyer (who may soon have less work) puts it, most consumers would rather be faced with a clearer and cheaper process, and lose quickly, than a victory that is painful, protracted and pyrrhic.
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Her words can expand to cover the entire show, from the war raging around them to the endless cycle of Pyrrhic victories and crushing defeats that has given the show's entire run an orderly shape.
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Here's this week's briefing: Koreas: Silver Linings Playbook We assess that Kim Jong Un's strategy is to give you pyrrhic victories so that you stay engaged in denuclearization negotiations, but he doesn't lose his edge.
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Ergo if Trump or his supporters suggest something or declare something it becomes the Dems' very mission in life--to disprove or poke holes in that statement to score a pyrrhic victory of the soul.
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Instead, the best they can now argue is that their haul was more of a Pyrrhic victory than anything else — yeah, technically they won a couple, but they lost many more at the Primetime ceremony.
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What they're saying: I asked Kelly Sims Gallagher, lead study author from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, whether the paper's finding is something of a Pyrrhic victory, given the need for much deeper global cuts.
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The company later managed to beat that complaint, but it was a pyrrhic victory: the Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general filed a major lawsuit almost immediately after, kicking off the storied Microsoft antitrust trial.
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That means the Obama administration and Europeans claimed a Pyrrhic victory, mothballing obsolete Iranian IR-1 centrifuges while acquiescing to the Iranian demand for the development of the next generation of ultrafast centrifuges for uranium enrichment.
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Saudi Arabian Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid Bin Salman, in turn, wishfully tweeted that the episode had left Zarif's authority diminished, echoing hawks in the United States who insisted that Zarif's victory was pyrrhic at best.
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China can hardly be leaned on — although it is unlikely to be comfortable with a Kremlin that is willing to start such a pyrrhic and dangerous war — and none of this will be easy or cheap.
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General Leia Organa has just minutes to evacuate the Resistance from the planet on which we last saw them; their victory over Starkiller Base was a pyrrhic one, because it alerted the First Order to their location.
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Furthermore, leadership is not simply telling people what they want to hear nor is it outlasting those who disagree through the political version of trench warfare, in which any battles won are likely only Pyrrhic victories at best.
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For any democratic leader, victory at the cost Syria has paid -- hundreds of thousands dead, more than half the population displaced, and close to 5 million refugees forced to flee the country -- would be pyrrhic in the extreme.
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Undaunted by a sharp loss in popular support in France, or the Pyrrhic victory of Chancellor Angela Merkel in elections in Germany, Mr. Macron took aim this week at another forbidding goal — the reform of the European Union.
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Talk about a pyrrhic victory for Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhy President Trump needs to speak out on Hong Kong Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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There was also growing discontent that Osborne's fixation of achieving a budget surplus with more extensive cuts and tax rises could be tantamount to a pyrrhic victory for the U.K. economy in the long run, harming long-term investment.
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The organization misread how America and young people felt about discrimination, and for years after the ruling, the negative media coverage of the Boy Scouts as a result of the Supreme Court ruling made the decision a Pyrrhic victory.
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It mostly works, too, in that they are able to kill that team off, but at the great cost of their own team dying off in one of the most interesting versions of a Pyrrhic a game has produced.
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By duplicating the Optus network, Telstra's defensive move effectively killed the economics of its rival's plan but it was a Pyrrhic victory: Telstra and Optus both took heavy losses, writing a total of more than $2 billion off their investments.
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"No one wants to be in a position in the fall of telling a promising candidate in a competitive district that the resources aren't there because they were spent 18 months earlier as part of a Pyrrhic victory," Ferguson said.
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Every such ruling is a Pyrrhic victory for the devout, for whom invocations of God are sacred, and no victory at all for atheists, for whom invocations of God, when sponsored by the state, are obvious attempts to promote religion.
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Yet, Mr. Assad's victory, if he should achieve it, may well be Pyrrhic: He would rule over an economic wasteland hampered by a low-level insurgency with no end in sight, diplomats and experts in the Middle East and elsewhere say.
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El Nuevo Dia, a Puerto Rican newspaper, argued against a super-restructuring, noting that anything that makes it more difficult for the island to reenter bond markets or attract investment in the future is little more than a Pyrrhic victory.
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In Britain, the Conservative Party's decision to try to outflank from the right the U.K. Independence Party, the populist radical-right party that under Nigel Farage (a big fan of Donald Trump) helped bring about Brexit — delivered it only a pyrrhic victory.
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Democratic delegates and I-95 rivals from New York and Philadelphia decided to throw down in a pyrrhic culinary challenge on Tuesday, not only pitting cheesecake against cheesesteak, but also sending entire collections of the cities' hometown comfort food heavyweights to battle.
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As appealing as that solution may sound to some, it would be a Pyrrhic victory at best, denying the government future access to bond markets while leaving the island without the reforms needed to create jobs and compete in a global economy.
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Sethe, Baby Suggs, Denver, and the novel's namesake, Beloved, were the literary conduits who put a face to the pain of black women living in a white America, a pain that was not rendered obsolete by the pyrrhic victory of the American Civil War.
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Likewise, if you absorb heavy casualties in a Pyrrhic victory, you'll either have to conduct the rest of your campaign with whatever survivors are left in your army, or you'll have to retreat and wait for your army to get back up to a respectable strength.
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But it may be a Pyrrhic victory if Ossoff doesn't cross the 50% threshold — and the latest polls show he is unlikely to reach that level of support — since a one-on-one runoff would be harder than the divide-and-conquer approach he's using now.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government's win of a long-contested dispute over telecom fees could end up a Pyrrhic victory, as the billions of dollars in levies now owed are seen as burdens too big to bear for two of the country's three main carriers.
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But the deal was reached on what many South Africans today consider Pyrrhic terms: The black majority was allowed to control politics, but much of the country's economic resources, including land, has remained in the hands of white South Africans and a small group of other elites.
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Houthi leaders extol their — arguably Pyrrhic — victory: the survival of the movement after a withering bombing campaign by the Saudi-led coalition that was among the deadliest and most indiscriminate in the region's recent history, causing a majority of the more than 6,000 civilian deaths during the war.
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"Delays on regulatory steps to combat youth vaping may be a Pyrrhic victory for outside vaping groups fighting reasonable action to stop kid use of the products; putting the entire opportunity at risk and making bipartisan legislation to impose restrictions increasingly inevitable," Gottlieb said over Twitter Sunday night.
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If a referendum is held next year instead of this year, and Maduro loses, it would be a Pyrrhic victory for the opposition as his handpicked vice president would take over for the ruling Socialist Party for the remainder of his six-year rule which ends in 2019.
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Pyrrhic victory The campaign has often seemed like a scorched-earth policy, but it has succeeded in corralling what is left of the revolt, in Idlib and a few other scattered pockets (if you exclude the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces in the far north of Syria).
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His fascistic vow to investigate and jail Clinton upon election; his throwing of his running mate Mike Pence under the runaway Trump Train; his inability to directly answer any of the moderators' questions -- none of these could've given comfort to members of his party that a Trump win would be anything but Pyrrhic.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Zoning Arrived 100 Years Ago, Changing New York Forever" (Building Blocks column, July 26): Land use zoning, which spread across America after its debut in New York City in 1916 and was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in 1926, has proved to be a Pyrrhic victory.
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" In her 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism," Hannah Arendt noted that "the German bourgeoisie," which "staked everything on the Hitler movement and aspired to rule with the help of the mob," in the end only "won a Pyrrhic victory" as "the mob proved quite capable of taking care of politics by itself and liquidated the bourgeoisie along with all other classes and institutions.
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"If your moral code doesn't dictate that you come out strongly against someone who's been accused of these things, maybe a political, strategic argument would prevail on the president, which is that you win this seat, this Senate seat for Roy Moore, it's a Pyrrhic victory because you will be saddled, as you all have just said, as the party of a pedophiles for the rest of Roy Moore's term," panelist Willie Geist said.
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"If by 2017 the conservative bargain was to go along for the very bumpy ride because with congressional hegemony and the White House we had the numbers to achieve some long-held policy goals — even as we put at risk our institutions and our values — then it was a very real question whether any such policy victories wouldn't be Pyrrhic ones," Flake wrote in "The Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle".
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"Another such victory and we are lost," King Pyrrhus of Epirus lamented after suffering staggering losses in defeating the Romans in 279 B.C. This bit of ancient history seems relevant now as President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and the Republicans celebrate a pyrrhic victory of their own on taxes.
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In a recent essay on attempts by students at Claremont McKenna College to block a talk by the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald, a critic of the Black Lives Matter movement, The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf worried that more powerful political adversaries might someday use marginalized students' tactics against them: If these students succeed in changing free-speech norms in any realm, so that expression is more routinely suppressed when dubbed injurious or hateful or libelous, the history of speech restrictions on and off campus—a history routinely ignored by student censors—suggests marginalized communities will be hardest hit by their pyrrhic victory.
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