He said: "It was a pyrrhic victory for 20th Century Fox as the judge made a security of costs order of just pounds 50,000 when I could have had to pay into the court hundreds of thousands of pounds."

The South African centre and his side endured a pyrrhic victory at London Wasps on Saturday, with a 14-10 Adams Park triumph ultimately not enough to guarantee their top-flight status.

If yesterday's bloodbath was all about stopping aid getting into Gaza, and deterring future aid voyages, then Israel has scored a pyrrhic victory , the full price of which remains yet to be seen.

He then led 4-2 against Wayne Jones before Woody sank back-to-back 11-darters and a 12-darter to nick a pyrrhic victory .

'At that price, any short-term progress on a Structural Fund settlement would represent a Pyrrhic victory .'

'I recognise what Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell did not after their pyrrhic victory in January - that nobody in this saga behaved perfectly.'

It did not take a genius to see that Downing Street's fight with the BBC could never result in anything but a Pyrrhic victory -and we said so a week before Dr Kelly's death.

Even getting his plane back proved to be a pyrrhic victory . As Munnerlyn learned, the government has no obligation to maintain or safeguard the property in its custody--despite charging him storage fees.

Only after the local media did stories on Mulligan's picket did the hospital allow him to see a laundered version of his records, a pyrrhic victory which, after three years of time, money, and frustration, was all Mulligan could hope for.

He was killed in the operation but it was a pyrrhic victory as 44 Special Action Force (SAF) commandos were killed by Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas.

Mass killer Jeremy Bamber and the other merciless criminals won a pyrrhic victory yesterday and we are confident they will remain banged up for ever.