Sentence examples similar to tantamount distinction from inspiring English sources

Its planners speak of projected budgets -- of a "$40 million building" or a "$50 million building" -- as if a high price tag were roughly tantamount to the Palladian style or the Classical style as a mark of architectural distinction.

It is also generally assumed that it prohibits the last of these types of defense, primarily on the ground that self-defense in these circumstances is tantamount to participation in the war without identifying oneself as a combatant, and tends to undermine respect for the distinction between combatants and noncombatants.

It's tantamount to bullying.

That might be tantamount to giving up.

It's tantamount to secondary victimisation".

The action is tantamount to arrest.

This strikes me as tantamount to piracy".

First was outright liquidation, tantamount to bankruptcy.

This is tantamount to blackmail.

Tantamount to Yeovil beating Arsenal.

It's tantamount to Mecca".