Translation for '
pyrrhic' from English to Russian
ADJ | Pyrrhic | more Pyrrhic | most Pyrrhic | |
NOUN | pyrrhic | pyrrhics | |
SYNO | dibrach | pyrrhic |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- Eventually, and despite many humiliating reverses witnessed by tinker, broom-makers and beggars, the tailor emerges victorious, but it is a pyrrhic victory.
- However, it was a pyrrhic victory and the number of killed was about the same on both sides.
- It proved a pyrrhic victory, and he eventually settled in Mohmand agency where he became preoccupied with building a mosque.
- Metrists with a slightly more flexible conception of feet may find either a "pyrrhic" followed by a "spondee", or the four-position "minor ionic" replacing two iambs.
- They resulted in an ambivalent outcome, consisting a narrow and pyrrhic, as proven later, victory for the ruling center-liberal parties of Sophoklis Venizelos and Nikolaos Plastiras.
- In 1547, King Tabinshwehti invaded Siam and almost captured Ayutthaya, but had to retreat. It was a Siamese pyrrhic victory as they lost the Tenasserim Coast to Burma in exchange for peace.
- Lambert 'fired' Talmy, but Talmy sued for breach of contract and won. Talmy called it a pyrrhic victory, as he would no longer produce any records by The Who.
- In this case, everyone is somewhat right: the 4 positions "are" like a light then a heavy iamb, "and" like a pyrrhic followed by a spondee, "and" like a 4-syllable "ascending foot" that functions as a unit.
- In January 2023, analysts dismissed the strategic value of Soledar, assessing that a Russian victory in the settlement would be pyrrhic at best.
- However, this occurs mainly or exclusively with a small set of words of a kind labelled by Questa "quasi-pyrrhic" which are most frequently found in their shortened form.
- A pyrrhic is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.
- Although Bosman's victory was pyrrhic ending in alcoholism and incarceration the effect it had was it reversed parts of the Walrave and Koch ruling namely that contractual restrictions on freedom to conduct business could not be an exception.
- Backpage's win was pyrrhic, however. MC and Visa continued to disallow the use of its cards on the site.
- from "The Countess Cathleen") and Tennyson, "In Memoriam"," "When the blood creeps and the nerves prick" (compare pyrrhic).
- He is best known for his pyrrhic defense of Caen after the allied invasion, September 1944, and for his brief leadership of the LXXXI Army Corps defending Aachen and the Siegfried Line.
- Mladen Bratić ([...]; 6 June 1933 – 2 November 1991) was a major general in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). The battle ended up resulting in a Yugoslav/Serbian pyrrhic victory.
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