Sentence examples for illusory victory from inspiring English sources

Some saw this new peace as a victory for the state, but some, such as Umberto Santino, founder of the Sicilian Documentation Centre, which is dedicated to exposing the links between the mafia and political power, urged caution - just as now he argues that the arrest of Provenzano may be an illusory victory.

When, in the 1980s, he, Joyce and their borderline-autistic friend Toby (Judah Friedlander) go to see the film Revenge of the Nerds, Pekar becomes livid at their tolerant approval for the movie's faux-affectionate treatments of the nerds and the illusory "victory".

As Carrie and Saul battle to avert a planned attack on the US, knowledge turns out be illusory, victories pyrrhic, while the nature of terror-boss Abu Nazir's plot remains a mystery until the season's closing minutes.

The major impact of this week's continuing Canadian impasse will be political; the Trump administration will have no illusory trade victory to parade around during midterm election campaigning.

Then, after more defending, a single - England are doing their best to ensure that they're not tempted by the illusory prospect of victory - and drinks.

But, as any decent tragic plot demands, his victory was illusory.

By the time the FCC approved the entry of XM and Sirius in 1995, victory was illusory.

When, however, victory proved illusory, that body count came to appear to ever more Americans on the home front like grim slaughter and a metric from hell.

Yet as always in the war on drugs, victories are illusory (see article).

The temporary victories are illusory.

Even such a rare courtroom victory can be illusory, however.