Sentence examples for tantamount to rape from inspiring English sources

To deny her sex, he said, would have been tantamount to rape.

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The Guardian's exclusive disclosure of the tests led to front-page stories in every leading Indian newspaper, with the incident denounced as "an outrageous indignity" and "tantamount to rape".

To deny such a woman sex, would be "tantamount to rape", he told the judge in his 2006 rape trial (he was acquitted).In this section Crime and clarity Letting the baby dance Clean plates ReprintsIn America, where an average of 232 rapes are reported to the police every day, such views would attract instant condemnation.

In terms of the very frame and structure of that document, would it not be tantamount to intellectually and historically raping the founding fathers to undermine the authority of each and every branch of the government they established in good faith?

"We think the policy on limiting tax credits is appalling anyway, and tantamount to social engineering, but putting a woman who has been raped – and her child – in that position is shocking".

It was not until 1995, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, that rape was prosecuted as a grave crime tantamount to torture.

Backing a peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone, he said, was tantamount to "endorsing a policy that brought into power people who had committed rape, murder and atrocities".