Sentence examples for the tantamount from inspiring English sources

Undoubtedly, Brexit is the tantamount blow to the free movement of people and ideas within a united Europe, a historical achievement that was built on the blood of war and conflict.

O'Malley ended up receiving a majority of the vote in the primary (tantamount to election in deep-blue Baltimore).

Splitting off the unit — tantamount to unwinding the company's 2001 takeover of Compaq — was never a settled matter, people briefed on the matter said previously.

The report called some of the abuses "tantamount to torture".

Mr. Perry ultimately needed only about 4 percent of the eligible voters to secure the nomination — tantamount, in this reliably red state, to winning another term as governor.

To his father, Kane's passion for reading is deeply suspicious, his interest in the arts tantamount to an admission of sexual deviancy.

How is deceiving the church tantamount to deceiving God or testing God?

Because of the heavily Democratic makeup of the district, winning the primary is tantamount to winning in the general election.

Since public revenue subsidizes the scheme, the financial underpinning of the scheme is tantamount to differential public investment in the health care needs of the least poor.

"The voting booth is tantamount to the confessional — it's the secrecy of the ballot that is the critical issue," Reeves said.

But the two are so closely related that revealing the former seems tantamount to revealing the latter.