Sentence examples for just tantamount from inspiring English sources

Roussell, a professional nutritionalist who oversees the diets of professional athletes, celebrities, and other upper echelon clients as the director of nutrition for PEAK Performance, a gym in New York, says intermittent fasting is really just tantamount to kicking your daily caloric can down the road.

But the United States attorney for Minnesota, B. Todd Jones, said after the hearing that 50 years was "fair and just" and was tantamount to a life sentence for Mr. Petters, 52.

Going back to his war-torn homeland, he added, would have been tantamount to "just go and kill yourself".

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.

To many Israelis, that would be tantamount to suicide, just as cutting Jerusalem from its roots would be spiritual suicide.

Science is … Just a theory This is tantamount to saying the Large Hadron Collider is just a big tube; it's an epic understatement, it would need its own space programme just to reach the heights of an accurate statement.

The idea that we are quite possibility, even probably, mistaken in our most cherished beliefs, that they might well be just false, was mostly considered tantamount to capitulation to the skeptic.

To be sure, forgiveness is a very complex matter, and "just forgiving" can't be tantamount simply to extending forgiveness in response to an offender's confession; nor can "just forgiving" be tantamount to a victim's generous offer of mercy to an unapologetic offender.

This is another classic move that is tantamount to excusing yourself, but is just a bit nicer.

But poetry, it is now clear, can be tantamount to treason in China, just as it was in Czechoslovakia (Václav Havel), the Soviet Union (Joseph Brodsky and many others) and other authoritarian regimes of yesteryear.

Adaptations of all kinds don't always send readers to the original text but gives some a false sense of having done (seeing last year's film adaptation of Great Expectations was not tantamount to reading Dickens, just for the record).