Sentence examples for has been tantamount from inspiring English sources

For decades, winning the Democratic nomination in New York's Ninth Congressional District has been tantamount to election.

Since 1955, the party's nearly absolute dominance over Japanese politics has meant that being elected to the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party has been tantamount to winning the prime ministership.

Throughout history, mobilization has been tantamount to survival.

Since 1999, the PDP presidential nomination has been tantamount to winning the presidency.

Democracy in China has been tantamount to responsive, not representative, government.

One area of appointments has flown far on the radar scope but has been tantamount to a quiet revolution has been the federal courts, and not just his appointment of two high-profile women appointees to the Supreme Court.

For most politicians, this would have been tantamount to suicide.

Doing so, we felt, would have been tantamount to saying we were gay or lesbian ourselves.

Anything else would have been tantamount to handing in his notice at Godolphin.

To deny her sex, he said, would have been tantamount to rape.

He thought it would have been tantamount to an admission of guilt, he said yesterday.