You can reframe it, however, by saying: we get a choice, and not choosing at all can be tantamount in its consequences to choosing the greater of two evils.
He did decide that in this case, the time it would take to read the paper would be excessive — and that indulging the impulse to read it all would be tantamount, in the logic of Grant's thinking, to letting himself down, flouting his own rules of efficient giving.
With the vast majority of African Christians characterising religion as 'very important' in their lives and attending religious services at least once weekly, 11 exploring and addressing these obstacles and opportunities and harnessing the influence of the Christian church will be tantamount in enhancing uptake of MC.
At the club level, globalization combined with commercialization thus produces two outcomes: better quality of the game, which is tantamount, in economics, to greater output; and greater concentration of winning clubs, which is tantamount to greater inequality.
That is tantamount, in Lebanese political parlance, to calling into question the longtime Syrian dominance of its political, economic and diplomatic life.
Anticipating that synaptic fluctuations are tantamount in effect to volume neurotransmitter release within cortex, a novel theory of both cognition and consciousness arises that is reliant upon the rate of transitions within cortical activation topologies.
Consequently, we think that the catchall phrase "other disposition" is most reasonably interpreted as including those arrangements that are tantamount, in a particular industry, to a paradigmatic saleof a commodity.
The Court's different conclusion rests primarily upon its interpretation of the statutory words "other disposition" as "including those arrangements that are tantamount, in a particular industry, to a paradigmatic sale of a commod-ity". Ante, at 19.
"We think that the catchall phrase 'other disposition' is most reasonably interpreted as including those arrangements that are tantamount, in a particular industry, to the paradigmatic sale of a commodity," Justice Alito wrote.
None of the bands I've mentioned above would discuss it, understandably enough: admitting a failure is tantamount in the eyes of the music industry to condemning yourself for ever.
That Jeremy Corbyn visited the refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk last week, and that he suggested Britain should play a role in helping the thousands of starving men, women and child there, was tantamount, in the mind of our dear leader, to weakness.
