Sentence examples for is tantamount to surrender from inspiring English sources

Already hawks are arguing that any deviation from McChrystal's combat-troop requests is tantamount to surrender and "immediate withdrawal".

In a country divided by two starkly different visions of government's role in social life, any concession to the other side is tantamount to surrender.

The Slavs fear that granting the Albanians more rights is tantamount to surrender at gunpoint if the rebels do not disarm first.

Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) issued a statement saying, "The Senate Majority Leader's plan to divorce the funding bill from the unlawful actions it is restricting is tantamount to surrender, and won't meet with support in the People's House".

Such concerns are why some government opponents maintain that joining the EEU is tantamount to "surrendering by our own signature. . . the independence we gained 23 years ago," said Raffi Hovannisian, the U.S.-born leader of Armenia's Heritage Party who ran for the presidency last year and made accusations of fraud after losing.

President Chen says that to accept this would be tantamount to surrender.

After repeatedly arguing that disarmament was tantamount to surrender, the I.R.A. could not easily shed its weapons.

For many in the younger generation of Republicans elected to the House in the tea party wave of 2010 and since then, this pragmatism was tantamount to surrender.

It's just as O.K. to say that Pentagon spending has to be "on the table" or "part of the conversation" as it is to say that cutting said spending would be tantamount to surrender.

Not only have the developments offered Mr. Obama a measure of credibility as a prospective world leader in a week when his every move is receiving intensive attention at home and abroad, but it has complicated Mr. McCain's leading argument against him: that a withdrawal timeline would be tantamount to surrender and would leave Iraqis in dangerous straits.

In dozens of speeches and statements, Nasser posited the equation that any direct peace talks with Israel were tantamount to surrender.