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Перевод: pyrrhic

[прилагательное]
относящийся к пиррихе; относящийся к пиррихию; относящийся;
[существительное]
пиррихий ; пирриха

Тезаурус:

1. On the EPR paradox it seemed that the Copenhagen school had achieved just such a Pyrrhic victory.
2. It may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.
3. For if one of the main results of this election is that the Labour Party ditches Mr Kinnock as leader in favour of Mr Smith, it could well be a case of reculer pour mieux sauter - a kind of Pyrrhic defeat.
4. My only regret is that he didn't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory.
5. Too often the leadership's victories over the left have had an unsavoury, pyrrhic quality.
6. It was a pyrrhic victory for both sides.
7. The French won but it was a Pyrrhic victory and their victorious momentum was lost; they contented themselves with sailing up the Ouse, burning settlements on the way and anchoring within sight of the town before they withdrew.
8. Inflation seemed like a pyrrhic victory, almost a tease.
9. Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory, for which he need never have fought in the first place, that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated.
10. If this constituted defeat for Malcolm McLaren, it was, perhaps, only a pyrrhic victory for Richard Branson.
11. The judges handed the Tobacco Institute of Australia something of a pyrrhic victory when they said they would set aside Justice Morling's injunction on the further publication of the advertisement on the legalistic basis that the Tobacco Institute of Australia had previously indicated to the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations that it would not republish the advertisement anyway.
12. But, very often, the victories on the track and pitch or in the ring are Pyrrhic: they are costly in other areas.
13. The refusal to collude in the state of dreamlessness that is adulthood, even to the Pyrrhic point of clinging stubbornly to the state of being unsatisfied, forever.