But even that's an empty victory because nobody's debating that fact anymore.

It felt like an empty victory.

The quashing of the complaints is an empty victory for the administration.

It turned out to be an empty victory.

And I knew how empty victory could make you feel.

If everybody's doing this, he's going to have a real empty victory.

But it was a very empty victory.

She says, Unless we attack the causes of worldwide terrorism, our capture of a few of its leaders will be an empty victory.

The pigs killed James Rector and won an empty victory.