Pyrrhic victory - significado y definición. Qué es Pyrrhic victory
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VICTORY AT AN UNSUSTAINABLE COST
Pyrrhic Victory; Phyrric victory; Pyhrric victory; Empty victory; Pyhrric Victory; Pyrrhic defeat; Pyrhhic victory; Winning the battle but losing the war; Hollow victory; Pyrrhic victories
A Pyrrhic victory ( ) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Such a victory negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress.
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VICTORY AT AN UNSUSTAINABLE COST
Pyrrhic Victory; Phyrric victory; Pyhrric victory; Empty victory; Pyhrric Victory; Pyrrhic defeat; Pyrhhic victory; Winning the battle but losing the war; Hollow victory; Pyrrhic victories
Pyrrhic victory         
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VICTORY AT AN UNSUSTAINABLE COST
Pyrrhic Victory; Phyrric victory; Pyhrric victory; Empty victory; Pyhrric Victory; Pyrrhic defeat; Pyrhhic victory; Winning the battle but losing the war; Hollow victory; Pyrrhic victories
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If you describe a victory as a Pyrrhic victory, you mean that although someone has won or gained something, they have also lost something which was worth even more.
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Ejemplos de pronunciación para Pyrrhic victory
1. So it's a pyrrhic victory for them.
Lucky Peach _ David Chang & Peter Meehan _ Talks at Google
2. can qualify whether it's a Pyrrhic victory or just
So You've Been Publicly Shamed _ Jon Ronson _ Talks at Google
3. using this word in the right way-- Pyrrhic victory.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed _ Jon Ronson _ Talks at Google
4. our ambitions at work, it's a really Pyrrhic victory.
Arianna Huffington _ Thrive _ Talks at Google
Ejemplos de uso de Pyrrhic victory
1. "Welfare reform could be a Pyrrhic victory," Sawhill said.
2. But this would be a Pyrrhic victory, for the price would be freedom and democracy themselves.
3. A successful fight in an employment tribunal brings only a pyrrhic victory.
4. McCain‘s pyrrhic victory is that under the deal, lip service to Common Article 3 remains.
5. President Musharraf has been re–elected, but it is a pyrrhic victory.