The Slavs fear that granting the Albanians more rights is tantamount to surrender at gunpoint if the rebels do not disarm first.
The company's C.E.O., Luke Corbett, denounced Icahn's proposal — which would have required selling assets and acquiring more debt — as "tantamount to mortgaging the company's future simply to provide Mr. Icahn and his partners with some quick cash".
Krebs says: "Allowing just four months for a student to find work after graduation is more or less tantamount to telling overseas students they'd be better off going to study elsewhere".
Business came first, and to speak of anything more "sensitive" was considered tantamount to giving up the game before it began.
In the majority of situations, basic economic principles do the trick, or even more daunting, advice is tantamount to the detection of mistakes in economic reasoning.
A society where iMac users suddenly declare that they are more than happy with Panther is tantamount to a society that says it is more than happy with the Previa and doesn't need the Siena, which, after all, has automatic sliding doors.
To criticize Dartmouth's frats, which date back more than 150 years, is tantamount to criticizing Dartmouth itself, the smallest and most insular school in the Ivy League.
A photographer, Ms. Seymore has spent most of her adult life -- Manhattan, Los Angeles, Brookfield, New Canaan -- in kitchens so small that occupancy by more than two adults was tantamount to a conjugal visit.
A seminal result of Aronszajn [34] establishes that such solution sets satisfy a more general proximal contractibility property tantamount to being contractible in each of their open neighborhoods (sets with trivial shape and (R_{delta}) sets14).
This is tantamount to borrowing more than we make in the face of the growing possibility -- if not likelihood -- that we will not be able to pay it back.
