As Reich puts it, in Britain and other rich countries, "creating a 'favourable business environment' remains tantamount to deregulating, reducing wages, cutting taxes on corporations, and giving employers more flexibility to fire at will".
The trouble is that "containment" as a strategy is increasingly denounced by hard-liners in the U.S. policy debate as tantamount to appeasement, reducing the administration's political space.
In Revolutionizing American Agribusiness From the Ground Up, One Seed at a Time, Lisa Hamilton exposes agribusinesses' aggressive patenting practices that are tantamount to environmental suffocation, reducing biological diversity at the expense of a resilient food supply.
Cutting incentives for wind power when we're trying to reduce our reliance on energy imports is tantamount to self-sabotage – our suppliers of costly, polluting fossil fuels, including Putin, will be rubbing their hands.
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) declared Thursday that seeking more revenue in order to reduce the federal deficit or to replace sequestration's pending budget cuts is tantamount to stealing from Americans.
Over the years, Elmendorf's CBO has admitted that tort reform has had what is tantamount to a negligible effect on reducing health care costs for the nation's population, and that defensive medicine is done more to increase revenues for those in the private practice than anything else.
Many have described these moves as tantamount to a coup, and it could be that the council plans to accept a Morsi victory but will try to reduce him to a figurehead.
Modernising the care system is essential, but it should not be tantamount to homogenisation, with care provision reduced to a simple formula, which suits almost nobody.
Officials at [Mauritius'] National Agency for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Substance Abusers oppose the [clean needle] program, saying the distribution of needles is tantamount to distributing drugs, and does not reduce harm but propagate it.
