Sentence examples for tantamount to asking from inspiring English sources

Programming them to self-destruct after 26 checkouts is tantamount to asking librarians to embrace entropy.

Everyone agreed that the circumstances did not call for a full expulsion, a confrontational tactic that can be tantamount to asking for trouble.

Bunnell's half-showing them is tantamount to asking you to come into the closet with them rather than bringing them out.

To suggest that the water was "siphoned off" and that California will now end "its larcenous ways" is tantamount to asking if we have stopped beating our governor.

The question is tantamount to asking whether a Turing machine can logically describe the behaviour of those sources of chance that are found in nature and are the subject of the study of probability theory.

Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper, said that the United States' recent pledge to defend South Korea was tantamount to "asking for the calamitous situation of having a fire shower of nuclear retaliation all over South Korea".

What he is asking is tantamount to my asking the taxpayers to support my summer home upstate or my winter home in Florida.

SOME people would say it was tantamount to foxes asking to be consulted about the welfare of chickens.

Was it, someone asked, tantamount to a death sentence for the people of Tower Hamlets?

It's a nakedly raw film by anyone's standards – and by those of the fashion industry, tantamount to blasphemy – so I ask if he found it dauntingly exposing.

"His failure to ask for an FBI investigation, in my view, is tantamount to a cover-up".