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	Pyrrhic victory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Pyrrhic victory (pronounced pirric) is a victory which is won at too great a cost for the victor.
		The phrase is a reference to King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who defeated the Romans at Heraclea and Asculum in 279 BC, but suffered severe and irreplaceable casualties in the process, going on to eventually lose the Pyrrhic War.
		While it is most closely associated with a military battle, the term is used by analogy in fields such as business, politics, law or sport to describe any similar struggle which is ruinous for the victor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyrrhic_victory (295 words)

	Pyrrhic Dancing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pyrrhic dancing was a competition at the Panathenaea performed in armor (dancers above are only wearing a shield) by teams of young Athnenians representing their tribes.
		This dance was believed to have been first performed by Athena herself in celebration of her and her fellow Olympians' epic victory over the Giants.
		The clothed figure on the far left in the second image is the sponsor who, as part of his civic responsibility, paid for the training of pyrrhic dancers from one tribe.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/athnlife/pyrrhic.html (222 words)

	Urban Dictionary: Pyrrhic victory
		The best example of a pyrrhic victory is in the anglo-zulu war, in which Ntshingwayo Khoza set 22,000 zulu warriors, about 55% of the male population of zululands to attack 1,400 British soldiers in a surprise attack at the Battle of Isandlwana.
		Pyrrhic victory (noun): A victory that is offset by staggering losses.
		A female student quotes it in her graduation speech; this student was only graduating due to the help of a teacher who killed while being forced by a troubled male student to play Russian roulette.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Pyrrhic+victory&r=s&pos=4 (454 words)

	Pyrrhic victory -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A "Pyrrhic victory" (Pronounced pihrihk) is a victory gained with too great a cost, such that the overall situation becomes worse for the Pyrrhic victor than it was before battle commenced.
		Usually the phrase refers to a (A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war) battle, but by (Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect) analogy it can also mean any struggle.
		The gruesome French losses in WWI devastated French morale and could be considered to be one of the causes of the (Click link for more info and facts about easy defeat of France) easy defeat of France in 1940.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/py/pyrrhic_victory.htm (372 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: Pyrrhic victory
		Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications -- but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.
		But with both administrations' credibility hugely damaged as a result, these are Pyrrhic victories that they may come to rue.
		A Pyrrhic victory is so called after the Greek king Pyrrhus, who, after suffering heavy losses in defeating the Romans in 279 B.C., said to those sent to congratulate him, "Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone."
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2003/07/16.html (200 words)

	THE PALESTINIAN PYRRHIC LOSS OF 2002
		A Pyrrhic victory is when you win, but the price is so high that you lost.
		What I am calling a Pyrrhic loss is this: You lose, but the delusional spin you place on the loss is so positive you think you won.
		So here's the Arab Pyrrhic loss of 1956: By refusing to recognize Israel and then sending terrorists into Israel, Egypt eventually lost a major part of her territorial designs on Israel.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0602/pyrrhic.asp (1317 words)

	Pyrrhic victory ... - May 19, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But if it can interest the youth in particular to hark to the source, or indeed read (alas, a dying art), it will have done its job.
		It's from the "Iliad" you'll best learn the concept of Pyrrhic victory, a victory won at such great cost you wonder what it's worth.
		That is what Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's impending victory in the elections is: a Pyrrhic one.
	www.inq7.net /opi/2004/may/19/text/opi_csdequiros-1-p.htm (1036 words)

	Victoria pyrrhic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		FATHER Noel Barry's pyrrhic victory in his libel case brings him no honour.
		Un victoria pyrrhic es un victoria consequite con forte perditas in su proprie armea.
		Elecions in Chiapas, ¿a pyrrhic victory for the PRI?(Partido Revolucionario Institucional, México)(TT: Las Elecciones...
	interlingua.encyclopedia.st /Victoria_pyrrhic (302 words)

	Pyrrhic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A pyrrhic is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.
		Pyrrhics are never used to construct a whole, serious poem.
		This page was last modified 00:04, 10 October 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyrrhic (46 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The term you seek is Pyrrhic victory, thus spelled (and note the -rrh- in the word), which means 'a victory or goal achieved at too great a cost'.
		It is his victory at Ausculum that gave us the term Pyrrhic victory, a term first recorded in the late nineteenth century.
		There are some other pyrrhics (lowercase), that refer to dances and verse-forms (actually, a metrical foot consisting of two short syllables in quantitative verse, or two unstressed syllables in accentual verse), but you're unlikely to encounter these in general reading.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990903 (254 words)

	ETF exemption from phantom tax: a Pyrrhic victory? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He meant individual investors: in fact, the corporate world and tax advisors and accountants still think this thing is full of holes and ought to be rethought from the ground up.
		I hate to say it but I think it is up to the many professionals groups that were so noticeably absent in round one to take the ball now and run with it in round two.
		Too bad that in many cases like this the issue is well engaged (or protested) yet in the end, CCRA sets up rules that are better focused and that ultimately reap more tax dollars.
	www.bylo.org /taxthread5.html (4216 words)

	Pyrrhic Awakening : CafePress.com
		A "Pyrrhic Victory" is one where technically you have won, but the losses were so great that it can hardly be considered a victory.
		Pyrrhic Awakening is a game only, and it is not about that.
		P.A. will explore themes like the machanations of the Elders, the ever present threat of hunters and the Sabbat, and the inner conflict that arises as your humanity erodes and you work your way up the vampiric hierarchy.
	www.cafepress.com /pyrrhica (192 words)

	Search Results for pyrrhic - Encyclopædia Britannica
		It has been shown that the metre of “Vertue” is determined by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables arranged into feet and that a precise number of feet determines the measure of the line.
		Although the British eventually won the battle, it was a Pyrrhic...
		During the 6th century BC, Rome became one of the more important states in Latium—owing to the achievements of its Etruscan overlords—but Tibur, Praeneste, and Tusculum were equally important Latin...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=pyrrhic&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (334 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Pyrrhic Victory (A).
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Pyrrhic Victory (A).
		Pyrrhus, after his victory over the Romans, near the river Siris, said
		“The railway companies see that in fighting their customers they gain but a very Pyrrhic sort of victory.”—Newspaper article, Feb. 13th, 1893.
	www.bartleby.com /81/13817.html (90 words)

	BrainTalk Communities - Good Morning from the Harbor ~ Word for the Day Pyrrhic
		It is used almost exclusively in the phrase "Pyrrhic victory." As a noun it can refer to an ancient Greek military dance, the pyrrhic, or a metric foot in poetry comprising two unaccented syllables.
		Suggested usage: Arguably, every victory in war is Pyrrhic because the costs of any battle are always too great.
		Pyrrhic victories often win the battle but lose the campaign: "Besting Lettucia in the state salad-making finals turned into a Pyrrhic victory for Leonard when Lettucia returned the engagement ring to him the following day." Revenge is generally Pyrrhic in that, having achieved it, the avenger usually feels sympathy for his victim.
	brain.hastypastry.net /forums/showthread.php?t=22098 (2211 words)

	Pyrrhic victory
		The definition of 'Pyrrhic victory' as "The Greek leader Pyrrhus gained such a victory over the Romans in 279BC." - leaves a LOT to be desired!
		First of all, he was Italian (but not a Roman) who was made the leader of the Greek forces against the Romans.
		Hence the term 'Pyrrhic victory' has come to mean a victory at too great a cost.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/7/messages/562.html (182 words)

	Abraham Lincoln’s Pyrrhic Victory
		The ignoble institute of slavery dissolved relatively uneventfully in most slave societies around that time, with only Haiti and the U.S. resorting to violence.
		This makes Lincoln’s victory a pyrrhic one indeed.
		Ilana Mercer is a freelance writer based in Vancouver, Canada.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/mercer1.html (786 words)

	Sharon's Pyrrhic Victory (by Jaffer Ali) - Media Monitors Network
		But his victories against Rome were so costly that he had to totally withdraw from Italy.
		His now famous remark, "Another such victory and I shall be ruined" eventually gave name to the term 'Pyrrhic victory' for a victory obtained at too great a cost.
		It is worthwhile to consider whether Ariel Sharon is a modern day Pyrrhus.
	www.mediamonitors.net /jaffer15.html (511 words)

	Amazon.com: The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories: Books: John V. Denson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Deeply rooted in the ideals of the Found Fathers, The Costs Of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories is unique in its combination of historical scope and timeliness for current debates about foreign policy and military intervention.
		The Costs Of War will be of interest to historians, political scientists, economists and sociologists, as well as the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the financial, economic, social, cultural, political, technological, and humanitarian costs of war.
		The sub-title of this book is "America's Pyrrhic Victories." In the introduction, it says, "In 280 B.C., Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, sent his army to invade Italy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560003197?v=glance (3842 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Who was Pyrrhus, and what made his victory so Pyrrhic?
		Straight Dope Staff Report: Who was Pyrrhus, and what made his victory so Pyrrhic?
		A Pyrrhic victory is one where the cost is greater than the benefit.
		Although there was some wavering at first, Rome refused to come to terms with Pyrrhus.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mpyrrhic.html (638 words)

	FT.com / Home UK - Harvard pay victory may prove pyrrhic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		FT.com / Home UK - Harvard pay victory may prove pyrrhic
		The Harvard alumni who protested how much the university paid the stewards of its endowment may have scored a victory, but given the challenges endowments face these days it may be pyrrhic.
		The Ivy League school has yet to detail plans for its endowment once money manager Jack Meyer vacates the throne this summer after turning $4.7bn into $22.6bn in 14 years.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/a738712c-7f6e-11d9-8ceb-00000e2511c8.html (134 words)

	Re: Pyrrhic victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Reply to: Pyrrhic victory posted by Andrew Horsford on January 24, 2001
		The way I heard it was that Phyrrus said "Another victory like that and we're done for." The OED (under "Pyrrhic") says it was the battle of Asculum in Apulia and quotes Phyrrus as saying "One more such victory and we are lost."
		: The definition of 'Pyrrhic victory' as "The Greek leader Pyrrhus gained such a victory over the Romans in 279BC." - leaves a LOT to be desired!
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/7/messages/567.html (91 words)

	Kosovo & Milosevic: A Pyrrhic Victory [Free Republic]
		The war achieved no more than was offered at the beginning and only enflamed ethnic passions for generations to come.
		It is a Pyrrhic victory to now claim that the bombing served its purpose.
		Kosovo remains a part of Yugoslavia, the independence referendum has been cancelled, ethnic cleansing continues (albeit reversed in terms of nationalities), and NATO has been stuck with the impossible task of disarming the KLA.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39f76b8f52bd.htm (1696 words)

	British fear a Pyrrhic victory in Fallujah - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		British fear a Pyrrhic victory in Fallujah - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		No one doubts the American-led forces will be able to recapture Fallujah, but many wonder if overwhelming force is the wisest strategy in the long-term.
		The defense editor for The Times newspaper, Michael Evans, wonders if it won't be a Pyrrhic victory for U.S. forces.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6450578 (1034 words)

	Asia Times
		The question is not whether the US will win, but how soon.
		But it will be a Pyrrhic victory, which will not contribute to enhanced peace and security for the US, Israel or the rest of the international community.
		No world leader can afford to be insensitive to their feelings of hurt and anger.
	atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EC19Ak04.html (1397 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Helsinki: A Pyrrhic Victory?
		At the Helsinki summit, Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin, despite deep differences over NATO expansion, agreed on arms control proposals intended to obtain the Russian Duma's ratification of START II.
		If Clinton and Yeltsin can persuade their legislatures to support this package in the face of NATO expansion, the Helsinki summit will be remembered as a remarkable victory against considerable odds.
		But if reluctant legislatures in both countries fail to act, as seems quite likely, Helsinki will be seen as a Pyrrhic victory, where the successful rejection of Russian efforts to hold back NATO expansion created a new adversarial relationship between Russia and the West and set back arms control for many years.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/1997_03/keeny.asp (754 words)

	AlterNet: A Pyrrhic Victory at the UN
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		A Pyrrhic Victory at the UN By Ian Williams, Foreign Policy in Focus.
		The unanimous passage of the U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution is a diplomatic triumph -- but in form rather than in substance.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=16988 (955 words)

	Lindley: Pyrrhic Diplomacy
		It is too bad that the Bush administration never respected the U.N. in the first place.
		The result of this Pyrrhic diplomacy is that both sides have increased the risks of the war to come, while damaging the E.U., NATO, and the U.N. While the war against Iraq is legal and justifiable, poor planning, poor diplomacy, and lack of a U.N. consensus will increase the numbers of casualties.
		But bellicose diplomacy by Bush and what boils down to appeasement with ulterior motives by others mean more death in the near term and international disorder in the long term.
	www.nd.edu /~dlindley/handouts/pyrrhicdiplomacy.htm (994 words)

	Jaffer Ali: Sharon's Pyrrhic Victory--Ummah.comGeneral
		'Pyrrhic victory' for a victory obtained at too great a
		It is worthwhile to consider whether Ariel Sharon is a
		and Gaza shall certainly result in his own "Pyrrhic victory."
	www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=797 (361 words)

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