Sentence examples for which was tantamount from inspiring English sources

Which was tantamount to threatening him with reform school.

Mr. Thurmond won the runoff and the Democratic nomination, which was tantamount to election, with 56percentt of the vote.

The Brixton Academy had replaced an outdoor venue, which was tantamount to plucking a huge lorry off the motorway and giving it a cul-de-sac to scoot around.

He was elected a judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of Alabama in 1953, and in 1958 he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship, losing the Democratic nomination (which was tantamount to election) to a segregationist candidate who had been endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan.

By cutting someone in, Charlie was lowering the odds on his pick, which was tantamount to giving away his own money, which was tantamount to nuts.

The assisted living nurse told me that my mom was now prescribed THREE Ativan a day, which was tantamount to a full-time tranquilizer regiment.

Ms. Gu received a suspended death sentence, which is tantamount to life in prison.

The UK has said it will abstain on the vote, which is tantamount to a no.

At the club level, globalization combined with commercialization thus produces two outcomes: better quality of the game, which is tantamount, in economics, to greater output; and greater concentration of winning clubs, which is tantamount to greater inequality.

Ms. Gu was convicted in August 2012 and given a suspended death sentence, which is tantamount to life in prison.

A sexual encounter which is tantamount to rape in Wedekind is turned into a spoonily romantic coupling.