| If we carry on carping about the way things are and keep on interfering in them, then, far from achieving what we want to achieve, the whole thing will end up turning out to be a Pyrrhic victory. |
| The Pyrrhic victory was secured by making 50 percent of the nation hate the other 50 percent. |
| You can't survive on Pyrrhic victories because you need funds to keep the country running. |
| The victory is likely to be Pyrrhic anyway, Pyrrhus being the ancient king who won a battle at such heavy cost that, in effect, he lost. |
| Time will be the judge and I believe that it will show the result of the second Irish referendum to be a Pyrrhic victory. |
| In the end, it would by a Pyrrhic victory if terrorism were defeated at the cost of sacrificing our commitment to those values. |
