Translation of "Pyrrhussieg" in English

As with CDOs, however, this might be a Pyrrhic victory.

We fear a Pyrrhic victory in this dispute.

However, Angus's victory would prove pyrrhic.

However, the Prince had won a Pyrrhic victory.

But this could be a Pyrrhic victory.

A pyrrhic victory is merely the most palatable kind of defeat.

But the capitulation of Serbia is a Pyrrhic victory.

The victory of pro-Brussels elites can however prove only a Pyrrhic victory.

Therefore one can describe the election victory of the monopoly party CDU/CSU only as Pyrrhic victory.

Russia’s military success could prove a Pyrrhic victory.

It may turn out to be a pyrrhic victory for the German Europe.

But would her victory be Pyrrhic?

In the end, every victory can reveal itself as a Pyrrhic victory.

This might well be a Pyrrhic victory, but we shall have to wait and see.

By this the Gagarin victory of the "SU" comes out as a Pyrrhic victory (Wisnewski, p.58).

Even the international regroupment achieved by the disposal of Pablo proved to be something of a pyrrhic victory.

It was a Pyrrhic victory apparently, since, following the agreement, stock exchange prices for the sector scarcely increased, which was not a good sign.

Time will be the judge and I believe that it will show the result of the second Irish referendum to be a Pyrrhic victory.

My biggest fear, however, is that an approach such as this, embodying as it does the principle of 'the end justifies the means', will turn against us all and that we will witness a counter-reaction in the years ahead and that the pressure to approve the Lisbon Treaty will provoke a backlash in the form of rising support for the real anti-Europeans, for extremists, xenophobes and anti-European forces, and that this will be a Pyrrhic victory.

Under these conditions, the only military victory possible would risk being a Pyrrhic victory, far removed from the fair and lasting peace we are currently seeking.

In fact, I firmly believe that, following the failure of the Santer Commission, then the stormy journey taken by the one that succeeded it, following the succession of increasingly bitter disputes between governments and the Commission, between governments themselves, between the Commission and Parliament, following numerous worrying signs of ‘eurofatigue’ among the general public – to use an expression often heard in the new Member States – not least after the elections, which were notable for a record low turnout, and given the fact that the draft Constitution might not be ratified in a few days’ time, I firmly believe that the Barroso syndrome, which will tomorrow lead to an historic defeat or to a Pyrrhic victory, constitutes a new and powerful indicator of the deep crisis of a Europe without vision and without a unifying plan.

There is work to be done in Ukraine, in order to ensure that Mr Yushchenko’s victory is not wasted and becomes a Pyrrhic victory, but we also have our own homework to do here in the EU.

I too regard abandoning the negotiations more as a pyrrhic victory for the developing countries than as a success.

With one exception - the actual military "victory," which looks increasingly Pyrrhic - President Bush's Iraqi adventure has been marked by repeated failures.

But it was a Pyrrhic victory, given that it drove many disillusioned and angry Chechens toward religious fundamentalism.

Ten years after the Chagossians’ Pyrrhic legal victory – a victory that seemed merely to strengthen the Foreign Office’s resolve to stop them from returning to the Islands – they have taken their campaign to the European Court of Human Rights, which has suggested that the case be withdrawn in favor of a “friendly settlement.”

Israel’s exploits in Gaza were a Pyrrhic victory, and the country is now bound to change its war doctrine of “offensive defense.”