Sentence examples for tantamount to murder from inspiring English sources

That decision, prosecutors later said, was tantamount to murder.

Returning it to the market would be tantamount to murder.

But the government's steps are so tentative that they are almost tantamount to murder.

But the embryos are destroyed, and opponents say the work is tantamount to murder.

Watson believes that whales are more intelligent than people, and that their slaughter is tantamount to murder.

But the cells cannot be obtained without destroying the embryos, which some people say is tantamount to murder.

Any artificial termination of pregnancy is tantamount to premeditated murder.

The officer's "clear intent was to beat her with such force that could have resulted in her death and is tantamount to attempted murder," the complaint alleges.

This was treated, by conservatives, as tantamount to attempted political murder.

"It was the most painful day in my life," Mr. Moon wrote in his memoir, describing his friend's death as "tantamount to a political murder" and blaming a political vendetta by a new conservative government that wanted to discredit him.

In the president's view, performing research that prevents embryos from developing into children is tantamount to a form of murder.