Sentence examples for tantamount to surrendering from inspiring English sources

It is, he says, tantamount to surrendering to the Communists and would lead to Chinese workers and products flooding Taiwan.

But the arts center maintains that signing such an agreement would be tantamount to surrendering its autonomy.

Approaching the subject sociologically, Shapiro found its origins to be grounded in a vein of traditional scholarship going back to Edmond Malone, and criticised academia for ignoring the topic, which was, he argued, tantamount to surrendering the field to anti-Stratfordians.

While the Myanmar military demands the laying down of arms from the MNDAA, TNLA and AA before signing the NCA and participating in the peace process, the armed groups see such condition as unacceptable which they consider as tantamount to surrendering their people and territory.

President Chen says that to accept this would be tantamount to surrender.

Already hawks are arguing that any deviation from McChrystal's combat-troop requests is tantamount to surrender and "immediate withdrawal".

After repeatedly arguing that disarmament was tantamount to surrender, the I.R.A. could not easily shed its weapons.

In a country divided by two starkly different visions of government's role in social life, any concession to the other side is tantamount to surrender.

PAGE A9 I.R.A. Refusal Goes Deep The group is in the third year of a cease-fire, but is refusing to disarm, rejecting that as tantamount to surrender.

The Slavs fear that granting the Albanians more rights is tantamount to surrender at gunpoint if the rebels do not disarm first.

It's just as O.K. to say that Pentagon spending has to be "on the table" or "part of the conversation" as it is to say that cutting said spending would be tantamount to surrender.