In the report, Smith and the panel state their ultimate goal is to prevent a "system tantamount to lawlessness, where any person can, within a matter of seconds, render himself investigator, judge, jury and executioner, all in one".
Teaching unions claim the new system is tantamount to a return to league tables and accused the government of introducing a "branding system".
Mr. Cercone said commission authorities were examining whether the system was "tantamount" to introducing visas on all European Union nationals.
But this return to a one-party system is tantamount to a country being held hostage to political paralysis and has nothing to do with whether the Liberal Democrats deserve to govern.
Mr. Evans said he recognized that there would be resistance from gun owners and gun rights' groups like the National Rifle Association, which opposes a national ballistic fingerprint system as tantamount to a national gun registry.
In 2010, the European Court on Human Rights had its Brown vs. Board of Education moment when it ruled that separating Roma and non-Roma students in the Croatian school system was tantamount to discrimination based on ethnicity.
If you're applying to a role as a programmer or technician and your knowledge of certain computer systems is tantamount to your role, include a list of your computer skills.
If that happened, the system would be tantamount to national gun registration, which the rifle association considers a first step toward government confiscation of firearms, he said.
Some of the vines are planted in the classic pergola method, where the grapes hang high, protected from both sun and humidity, while the rest have been converted to the much lower French guyot system, which is tantamount to heresy for old-fashioned winemakers.
This too should raise some alarms, seeing as after the Kalamazoo rupture the US National Transportation Safety Board warned that weak regulations contributed to the spill and that "for the regulator to delegate too much authority to the regulated to assess their own system risks is tantamount to the fox guarding the hen house".
A non-regulated, privatized, so-called "free-market" economic system lacking in environmental protections is tantamount to a social system deficient of civil and human rights protections for minoritized peoples.
