Sentence examples for it's tantamount from inspiring English sources

"It's tantamount to Mother Nature's atomic bomb, and we're doing very little," said Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M ., who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in asking her colleagues to expeD-N.M .d to the U.S. territory last whok.

The idea of his adapting "Mystic River" for the screen was just "a 30-second" conversation with Clint Eastwood, its director, he said: "I just think it's tantamount to a doctor operating on his own child".

The Bush administration held off on issuing a decision about making emergency contraception available to younger females, despite its efficacy and safety, because conservatives believe it's tantamount to abortion.

For this reason, in professional situations when I've been part of hiring committees, I've advocated that we ignore where people studied as undergraduates, because it's tantamount to judging the financial situation of, say, a 30-year-old's parents when they were 15.

It's tantamount to bullying.

It's tantamount to secondary victimisation".

But for Goodyear, which has suffered recalls of its own, it was tantamount to ripping the gloves off.

The Catholic Church has been vehemently opposed to removing Ms. Englaro's feeding tube, saying it was tantamount to euthanasia, which is illegal in Italy.

He was the only one of the bank's 22 Governing Council members to vote against Draghi's unlimited bond-purchase plan, arguing it is tantamount to printing money to finance governments.

"It is tantamount to drinking poison to quench one's thirst," he recently wrote in Caixin weekly.

It is tantamount to the United States abandoning its pledge to help halve world hunger by 2015.