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Pyrrhic (verse metre)

	Pyrrhic victory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Pyrrhic victory (pronounced pirric) is a victory which comes at heavy cost to the victor.
		One of the possible outcomes of the Kobayashi Maru scenerio is that a starship may rescue an allied vessel in enemy territory but be destroyed in the process, thus a pyrrhic victory.
		In comedy, a pyrrhic victory often involves an act with the intent of embarrassing or placing in unpleasent situations a character or a group of characters, but results in both parties just as embarrassed or stuck in the same awkward situation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyrrhic_victory (536 words)

	Victory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victory (volcano), a volcano in Papua New Guinea.
		Victory Park, a neighborhood in Oak Lawn, Dallas Texas.
		Victory Records is the name of a US based record label.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victory (340 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.
		It was from his quote, "Another such victory and I shall be ruined" that the modern use the term Pyrrhic victory is derived.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Pyrrhic+victory&r=s&pos=4 (463 words)

	portland imc - 2002.07.30 - Pyrrhic Victory of a Blinded Superpower
		However the victory in Afghanistan was a Pyrrhic victory.
		Pyrrhic victories have occurred since king Pyrrhus sacrificed large parts of his army for his victory at Herakleia more than two thousand years ago.
		The victory in Afghanistan was a Pyrrhic victory.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/07/15185.shtml (740 words)

	Pyrrhic victory: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A "Pyrrhic victory" (Pronounced pihrihk) is a victory gained with too great a cost, EHandler: no quick summary.
		World war ii was a global conflict that started on 7 july 1937 in asia and 1 september 1939 in europe and lasted until 1945, involving the...
		The winners curse is a phenomenon akin to a pyrrhic victory that occurs in common value auctions with incomplete information....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/py/pyrrhic_victory.htm (1155 words)

	From Oslo to Red Cross (Pyrrhic Victory)
		Magen David Adom’s capitulation is yet another Pyrrhic victory for a policy that sacrifices a long term national security, an eternal vision and 4,000-year-old roots and principles on the altar of short-term tactics and quick and tenuous political gratifications.
		The MDA capitulation is yet another case of defying the lessons of history, which have proven that the preservation of roots has preserved the Jewish people and facilitated the renewal of sovereignty on its soil.
		Pyrrhic victories have caused cracks in Israel’s sovereignty and have transformed Israel from a prototype of defiance to a role model of retreat and submission to pressure.
	www.acpr.org.il /cloakrm/opeds/051214.html (513 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		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)

	Pyrrhic victory ... - May 19, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	Pyrrhic Victory? - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
		If the margin of victory had been greater, or if the assassination attempt hadn't presumably spawned a sympathy vote for the incumbent, Chen would have emerged from this election with a relatively clear mandate to take Taiwan further down the road to independence.
		Before the election, analysts had warned that a Chen victory might even spell the end of the once omnipotent KMT, as party members were slowly ousted from positions of power in the bureaucracy and hounded in the courts over financial scandals.
		Lien's aim, he adds, is to galvanize his fragile coalition by portraying the DPP victory as illegitimate, shifting blame for the loss from his own shoulders.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4571271 (1677 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 05:40, 1 February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyrrhic (56 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/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)

	Left2Right: a pyrrhic victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As reported today by Inside Higher Ed, David Horowitz is celebrating a statement issued by the American Council on Education as "A Major Victory in the Battle for Academic Freedom".
		It certainly isn't a victory for Horowitz, since it pointedly omits the pernicious elements of his "Academic Bill of Rights" and indeed asserts the right of academic institutions to be free of the sort of interference that the Bill was meant to spearhead.
		Of course this is a victory for Horowitz, annd as long as he breathes, he won't be going away.
	left2right.typepad.com /main/2005/06/a_pyrrhic_victo.html (6619 words)

	Bush's Pyrrhic Victory, by Michael Shannon - Democratic Underground
		While may he forever be successful in keeping that wolf at bay, the outlook is grim for the long term impact of Mr Bush's other "victories" to date.
		There was scarcely a word of dissent when the US announced that based on the evidence at hand - evidence that according to what is available in the public record looks overwhelmingly damning towards Al Qaeda - it was taking large scale military action against the Islamic militants based in Afghanistan.
		Mind you it was over a fifth rate military power, a nation barely in the modern era - but a victory none the less.
	www.democraticunderground.com /articles/03/05/22_victory.html (1954 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| David Clark: This pyrrhic victory on the Tigris
		Of all the analogies that have been offered to explain what might lie ahead, it is the example of the Lebanon that must therefore strike greatest fear into the hearts of British and American policy makers.
		The spate of suicide bombings provides one indication that the coalition's victory might give way to the same explosive cocktail of political factionalism, religious extremism and foreign occupation that resulted in hundreds of American deaths and a hasty withdrawal from Beirut 20 years ago.
		Unless I am wrong, and I hope that I am, it will become increasingly difficult for Tony Blair to claim that the demise of Saddam Hussein is a victory in anything more than the most pyrrhic sense of the term.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,934383,00.html (913 words)

	A.Word.A.Day -- pyrrhic victory
		"One more such victory and we are lost," exclaimed Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, as he described his costly success in the battle of Asculum in Apulia.
		With those words he gave us a metaphor to refer to a victory so costly that it's barely better than defeat.
		If we talk to those who lost their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, and other loved ones in war, every victory is a Pyrrhic victory.
	wordsmith.org /words/pyrrhic_victory.html (283 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Pyrrhic victory at Cancun
		HE collapse of the trade talks at the WTO's ministerial meeting at Cancun, Mexico, is being profiled as a moral win for the Third World, a harbinger of future unity.
		But a strategic retreat should not be confused with a decisive victory.
		Powerful farm interests in the industrialised countries could not be affected, especially in the run-up to a Presidential poll in the US and crucial by-elections in Europe and the richer Asian nations.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2003/09/27/stories/2003092700210800.htm (1148 words)

	PYRRHUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pyrrhus was king of the Hellenistic kingdom of Epirus whose costly military successes against Macedonia and Rome gave rise to the phrase' Pyrrhic victory'.
		He won a complete, but costly, victory over a Roman army at Heraclea.
		His remark 'Another such victory and I shall be ruined' gave name to the term 'Pyrrhic victory' for a victory obtained at to great a cost.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/ppersons2_n2/pyrrhus.html (165 words)

	Pyrrhic Victory in Fallujah - by Dahr Jamail
		BAGHDAD - A military victory for U.S. forces in Fallujah seems set to lead to a huge political loss for the U.S.-backed interim Iraqi government.
		Concern is growing over what a victory over an estimated 6,000 resistance fighters can mean for the United States and its appointed government.
		Killing or capturing a significant number of these fighters will not be easy for the interim government to live with.
	www.antiwar.com /jamail?articleid=3960 (707 words)

	Fed-Soc.org - Brown University v. Cohen: A Pyrrhic Victory for Feminists - Fall 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The bottom line is that no matter how a school chooses to comply with the new quotas, whether by cutting men's programs, limiting the size of men's teams, or creating more and more women's teams, male athletes necessarily will be denied opportunities compared with those available for women in order to equalize the numbers.
		Feminists are hailing Brown as a victory for women.
		But it is not so clear that this decision and the ideal of proportionate representation that it embodies ultimately will benefit women.
	www.fed-soc.org /Publications/practicegroupnewsletters/civilrights/cr010303.htm (1325 words)

	CNS STORY: Vatican hopes defeat of Italian referendum isn't pyrrhic victory
		VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The defeat of an Italian referendum on artificial procreation went into the church's win column, but Vatican officials realize it was a small victory on an ever-widening battlefield.
		The June 12-13 referendum, which would have eased restrictions on artificial reproduction and embryonic research, was defeated because it failed to draw enough voters to the polls.
		But even as Italian bishops were congratulating each other on the victory, Vatican sources privately cautioned against triumphalism.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0503580.htm (979 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)

	GMT GAMES Great Battles of History: Pyrrhic Victory, Module for SPQR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Note: To play Pyrrhic Victory, you need copies of SPQR 2nd Edition and War Elephant.
		Pyrrhic Victory recreates the first two battles that the Epirote mercenary (and would-be Alexander of the West) Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, fought against the slowly but inexorably expanding Republic of Rome.
		It was the first time the Roman legions faced the Macedonian tactical system, although the phalanx as a military formation was quite familiar to them.
	www.gmtgames.com /gbsp/gmtgbs30.htm (156 words)

	Pyrrhic victory for Budvar in EU trademark battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pyrrhic victory for Budvar in EU trademark battle
		An attempt by US-based brewing giant Anheuser-Busch to keep Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar from registering its name as a European Community trademark was foiled by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market of the European Union (OHIM) this week.
		The American firm has won recent victories against its Czech rival in Argentina, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and Sweden.
	www.foodnavigator.com /news/news-NG.asp?id=48656 (521 words)

	ETF exemption from phantom tax: a Pyrrhic victory?
		While this is a major "practical" victory, there are theoretical problems with this legislation which can come back to haunt us someday.
		After reading many of the comments on this legislation, I now realize that while a victory, it falls far short of what it should be.
		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.
	www.bylo.org /taxthread5.html (4216 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Who was Pyrrhus, and what made his victory so Pyrrhic?
		But the victories came at a high price, since his best officers and fighters were lost.
		(Well, not "lost," since he knew where they were--dead, mostly.) The outcome was so costly that he is reported to have said, "One more such victory and we are lost." And the expression has come down to us today.
		A Pyrrhic victory is one where the cost is greater than the benefit.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mpyrrhic.html (638 words)

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		The command system is a fascinating experiment that did not work, and the terrain-free victory conditions work well up to a point and then no more.
		Some strange victory conditions (both players could win).
		The US, knowing he had a military victory locked up from the start, played to minimize NVA points.
	etloh.8m.com /comrev/20.html (2400 words)

	BBC News \| FALL OUT \| A 'pyrrhic victory' for Clinton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President Clinton has won a hollow victory, despite his acquittal by the US Senate, say News Online users.
		More than 80% of people who e-mailed News Online felt the president may have been cleared of the impeachment charges, but his standing had been damaged forever.
		A minority went further, arguing the acquittal represented a real victory.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/events/clinton_under_fire/fall_out/279010.stm (560 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)

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