For long-suffering New York teachers, however, the settlement is likely to prove a pyrrhic victory.
Microsoft must sometimes feel like its lead in the game market is a Pyrrhic victory.
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If that happens, it may prove to be a pyrrhic victory for the Burmese high command.
Still, there is reason to think this might prove a Pyrrhic victory for Hon Hai.
Even a guilty verdict may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory, as Mahathir himself has acknowledged.
This might be more of a Pyrrhic victory than it at first seems.
But it is largely a symbolic one, and probably a pyrrhic one too.
Gutman also points out that judges have plenty of discretion to limit awards, making many legal "victories" Pyrrhic at best.
But such victories are Pyrrhic, as SLORC's abuses leave independence forces no option but to continue their struggles through guerrilla techniques.
MTV's victory, though, is pyrrhic: both operations are still losing money, although Channel V is a bit closer to breaking even.
Every cent more that Verizon has to pay for its prize is a small victory for Qwest, even if a Pyrrhic one.
It is still No 1 overall, the analyst company reckons, but this is a pyrrhic victory, since others are taking the profits.
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If the Serbian factions undertake to subjugate Croatia militarily, victory -- if only a pyrrhic one -- will likely go to Belgrade.
For the California woman who took on Honda in small claims court in February and won, it turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory.
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Absent an aggressive forward leaning bias, short-term wins will represent little more than pyrrhic victories as the innovators, the what if thinkers, pass you by.
That could be a Pyrrhic victory for the public interest groups, which now move to the next battle: ensuring that the study reflects their views.
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These are Pyrrhic victories, but the only ones these women have.
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In local government, there isn't the cash there to pay that sort of money, so really it's a bit of a pyrrhic strike in many ways.
The Liberty movement cannot afford to run its own libertarian version of Mitt Romney or the Georges Bush in the false hope of an early, Pyrrhic victory.
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There are no silver bullets, no panaceas, only Pyrrhic victories.
Even if the sanctions resolution passes, it will be Pyrrhic victory for the US which will have destroyed its credibility as a negotiator with its allies and its enemies alike.
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Obama won last night, but the victory was pyrrhic.
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The President can expect many more such pyrrhic victories now that his faithful lieutenant, John Bolton, has been forced to leave the Turtle Bay portfolio to the tender mercies of lowest-common-denominator-minded State Department diplomats like Under Secretary Nick Burns.
But the fact of the matter is that if he succeeds in passing such a law, his success will be a Pyrrhic victory because Obama has promised that his plan will do the impossible, and therefore it will unquestionably fail.
Social scientists like her, blessed with a sense of humor and as balanced a view of the world as is possible for someone promoting a cause, help advance the notion that in a war between the sexes the best you can hope for is a Pyrrhic victory.
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