Pyrrhic victory

For some reason I felt a need to win a pyrrhic victory.

He won what was described as a Pyrrhic victory by 308 to 188.

This was if anything a Pyrrhic victory for both states.

Others say it was not a military failure but a Pyrrhic victory.

He knows, of course, that this is perhaps a Pyrrhic victory.

The battle was a pyrrhic victory for the British, however.

But it will probably prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.

It could also be a Pyrrhic victory for the writers.

This might well be a Pyrrhic victory, but we shall have to wait and see.

The higher education portfolio, however, was something of a pyrrhic victory.