Sentence examples for tantamount in the from inspiring English sources

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.

He did decide that in this case, the time it would take to read the paper would be excessive — and that indulging the impulse to read it all would be tantamount, in the logic of Grant's thinking, to letting himself down, flouting his own rules of efficient giving.

That Jeremy Corbyn visited the refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk last week, and that he suggested Britain should play a role in helping the thousands of starving men, women and child there, was tantamount, in the mind of our dear leader, to weakness.

Nevertheless, to speak, as Basinger does, of a moral imperative to act coercively is tantamount, in the divine case, to demanding that the deity contravene the very laws that, according to traditional theism and process theism, it imposed in the first place.

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.

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.

As was mentioned earlier, the missegregation of apically- and/or basally-localized proteins is tantamount in ensuring that the asymmetric division machinery function without fail.

"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.

With the vast majority of African Christians characterising religion as 'very important' in their lives and attending religious services at least once weekly, 11 exploring and addressing these obstacles and opportunities and harnessing the influence of the Christian church will be tantamount in enhancing uptake of MC.

That is tantamount, in Lebanese political parlance, to calling into question the longtime Syrian dominance of its political, economic and diplomatic life.