Sentence examples for tantamount in from inspiring English sources
Mr. Perry ultimately needed only about 4 percent of the eligible voters to secure the nomination — tantamount, in this reliably red state, to winning another term as governor.
That is tantamount, in Lebanese political parlance, to calling into question the longtime Syrian dominance of its political, economic and diplomatic life.
"We think that the catchall phrase 'other disposition' is most reasonably interpreted as including those arrangements that are tantamount, in a particular industry, to the paradigmatic sale of a commodity," Justice Alito wrote.
You can reframe it, however, by saying: we get a choice, and not choosing at all can be tantamount in its consequences to choosing the greater of two evils.
Other women end up infecting their babies through breast feeding because they cannot follow the clinic's advice to bottle-feed only — tantamount in some areas to announcing you have H.I.V.
None of the bands I've mentioned above would discuss it, understandably enough: admitting a failure is tantamount in the eyes of the music industry to condemning yourself for ever.
But to most people, selling off Alibaba's stake before Taobao and Alipay go public would be tantamount to throwing in the towel and scrapping Yahoo for parts.
O'Malley ended up receiving a majority of the vote in the primary (tantamount to election in deep-blue Baltimore).
On Tuesday, the two-term mayor was celebrating his victory in the Democratic primary, tantamount to election in this town.
Suspended death sentences in China are often tantamount to life in prison, but good behavior can bring jail time down to 25 years.
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.
