To the mentality of the blokes he was speaking to that was tantamount to an order". Lord Gifford will insist that orders to kill demonstrators were so politically explosive that it would not have been left to local commanders.
The ISDS tribunal found that the government had taken a measure tantamount to expropriation and ordered Mexico to pay $16.7m£11m1m) in compensation – later reduced to $15.6m.
But critics—among them the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, the union which represents civil servants, including 23,000 federal scientists—have contended that the policy is tantamount to a gag order.
During preparations for one of many cancelled operations, Linnete II, his disagreement with Brereton over a risky operation caused him to threaten resignation, which, due to differences in military culture, Brereton regarded as tantamount to disobeying an order.
The Texas Medical Association and four other organizations of women's physicians sent a nine page letter to the Texas Department of Health Services (TDHS) insisting that the rule is tantamount to a gag order, inhibits a doctor's right to deliver prescribed health care, and violates doctor-patient confidentiality.
In his first days in office, Mr. Obama banned interrogation techniques that his supporters deemed tantamount to torture and he ordered the closure of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, within a year, although he failed to follow through in the face of Congressional opposition.
The scheme has faced furious opposition from German central bank chief Jens Weidmann, who argues that it is tantamount to printing money in order to pay off a country's debt, which is expressly forbidden by the ECB's mandate.
In his verdict, Judge Hwang said extraditing Mr. Liu to Japan for his crime, which he termed political, "would be tantamount to denying the political order and Constitutional ideas of South Korea, as well as the universal values of most of the civilized nations".
Interesting is how this regime hangs people and carries out lashings in public, yet now is thumping its chest about "public order". Based on the Iranian regime's terminology, "public order" is tantamount to the mullahs' rule.
"The mobilisation order is tantamount to dictatorship.
It is tantamount to returning the international trade order to the "law of the jungle".
