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Deputy minister's firing must not end vigorous debate on challenges we face.(News)
; ...Epirus last week after he fired his deputy minister of health, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. Pyrrhus famously beat the Romans at Asculum in 279BC. However, his losses were so great that his victory was equal to a virtual loss, given the sheer numbers of the Roman...
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Barry White: Time for the young pretender to quit?
; ...had scored a pyrrhic victory last Monday night. That's a reference to Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, who defeated the Romans at Asculum in 279BC, but suffered losses as great as those of the defeated. Four years later, he was beaten. The difference is that Trimble...
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TET WAS A DEFEAT FOR THE U.S. IN VIETNAM.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the Editor)
; ...victory that prepared the way for the long-run defeat of the American cause Southeast Asia. As Pyrrhus exclaimed at the Battle of Asculum against the Romans, One more such victory and we are lost. So it was with Cornwallis at Guilford Court House (surrender at...
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Celtic bruised but ready for a fight to the finish
; ...knack of yielding precedents which should be heeded. When Pyrrhus was roundly congratulated on his victory over the Romans at Asculum, his acceptance of the plaudits contained a sobering retort. "One more such victory," he said, "and we'll be undone." Celtic...
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Blame Truman.(Book Review)
; ...Offner Stanford University, 2002 626 pages; $37.95 IN 279 B.C., KING PYRRHUS OF Greece defeated the Romans in the Battle of Asculum. The victory was so costly, however, that when a jubilant soldier congratulated the king, he commented: Another such victory...
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Ruffled feathers
; ...decision. Regarding which I refer the speaker to the sad end of King Pyrrhus of Epicus, who won the battles of Heraclea and Asculum against the Romans in 279 B.C., but who comes down to us only as the eponymous participant in the phrase "pyrrhic victory...
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Telling porkies
; ...Italy with 20 elephants in the third century BC they were stampeded by the Roman commissionary's pigs. This was the battle of Asculum, the first Pyrrhic victory, after which he commented "another victory like this one and we are done for! Hurrah for pigs...
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Winning a Pyrrhic victory.
; ...Pyrrhus was a Greek warrior king who did not know when to stop. In 281BC, he defeated Roman armies at the battles of Heraclea and Asculum but his army suffered heavy losses. He is reported by Plutarch to have said: One more such victory and I am lost . This new...
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Ruffled Republican feathers; Let the unruffling begin.(OPED)
; ...decision. Regarding which I refer the speaker to the sad end of King Pyrrhus of Epicus, who won the battles of Heraclea and Asculum against the Romans in 279 B.C., but who comes down to us only as the eponymous participant in the phrase Pyrrhic victory and...
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The imperial republic: once a republic reluctant to fight wars except in self-defense, Rome became an imperial colossus capable of annihilating an entire nation out of sheer spite.(History--Rome)
; ...aid of Pyrrhus, who sailed with his forces across the Adriatic and defeated the Romans in two costly battles, Heraclea and Asculum. In a later campaign, Rome finally defeated Pyrrhus at the Battle of Beneventum, but was content to expel him from Italy, rather...
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