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JOHN J. BROWNE Houston Pyrrhic for Whom...
...Pyrrhic victory may be a disappointment to the individual involved, but what appears to be a Pyrrhic victory [April 231 for one may ensure to all the citizens of this country the rights we too often take for granted...
...three decades, the court has slowly extended the right to counsel in a series of decisions that were often Pyrrhic victories for theappellants involved. Items...
...Pyrrhic Victory. With that, the newspapers erupted in a new frenzy, accused Frederika of everything from pathos, which in modern Greek can mean "evil stubbornness," to being "unqueenly" in using the press to defend herself, warned that she had "hard days to live...
Home's victory may prove to be Pyrrhic. As a millionaire, one of Britain's biggest landowners, an Old Etonian, head of a family whose pedigree predates Magna Carta, he has inevitably caused the revival of an old argument: that the Tories' progressive, democratic goals are mere window dressing for the party of wealth and privilege...