But is this not tantamount to declaring certain subjects off-limits?
"If Twitter starts banning people who are affiliated with organizations that use or promote violence against civilians to further a cause, that's tantamount to prohibiting certain opinions: a very new policy for a platform that used to be known as the 'free speech wing of the free speech party,'" Benesch said.
To say that someone has died does seem tantamount to saying that certain behaviors are now appropriate while certain others are no longer appropriate.
But that seems tantamount to accepting that certain unions, at any rate, will continue to hold the state's finances hostage not the sort of thing Mr Walker normally puts up with.
O'Malley argued against their quick deportation, saying it would be tantamount to sending children "back to certain death".
I have the feeling that much of what is occurring, at least in the human realm, is tantamount to an improvisation within certain prescribed parameters, which I think of as conditioning, karma, causality, etc.
In 1976, he chastised the Federal Communications Commission and its chairman, Richard E. Wiley, in deciding that the agency's urging of the broadcast networks to restrict programs with sexual or violent content to certain hours was tantamount to government censorship.
In fact, direct government blockage of an Internet service is tantamount to a customs official stopping certain goods at the border.
I'll ask this: While the company owners are entitled to espouse what they will about certain contraceptives being tantamount to abortion, what about the rights of the many employees who do not share the boss' moral reservations about IUDs and Plan B pills (which, by the way, the American Medical Association says are not abortifacients)?
Using that method, which had been developed by researchers at Cambridge University, targeting certain interests was now tantamount to targeting personality traits.
People tend to get their history from monuments, he told HuffPost, and to name things after certain historical figures is tantamount to promoting their work, and only their work, as something worthy of recognition.
