But when shipping becomes an ideology, tantamount to a religion, it makes a story's creators pretty much tantamount to gods.
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" Trump said Cruz's actions were tantamount to "voter fraud.
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Inaction is tantamount to being complicit in the next attack.
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Either way, the outcome is negative and tantamount to bullying.
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He said the ordered departure is not tantamount to evacuation.
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That is tantamount to giving up an annuity worth £500,000.
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Isn't offering this option tantamount to giving up on them?
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For a slippery show like Sense8, that's tantamount to death.
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Huq said paying that fine was tantamount to accepting culpability.
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If something meaningful is shared, well, that's tantamount to action.
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But prosecutors said Bates' actions were tantamount to professional negligence.
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This memo can't become tantamount to just another twitter slam.
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This is tantamount to affirmative action for well-off white students.
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"This will be tantamount to an economic suicide leap," Njamnshi said.
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Buying a person a Fitbit is tantamount to buying them soap.
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Britain considers negotiating prisoner releases tantamount to paying ransom for hostages.
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In the film world, disliking Wim Wenders is tantamount to heresy.
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Liberal and Conservative are now tantamount to Democrat and Republican, respectively.
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It said the mistreatment "in some cases was tantamount to torture".
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USFWS's recommendation that Rover make these payments is tantamount to coercion.
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This is tantamount to missing the forest for a few shrubs.
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Is this maybe tantamount to accepting lifestyle advice from Gwyneth Paltrow?
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To white supremacists, building a multiracial democracy was tantamount to violence.
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It's tantamount to denying a lunch counter to a black man.
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Bottom line: Mr. Meng's detention is almost tantamount to a conviction.
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But this type of self-reflection is apparently tantamount to treason.
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China has long viewed food security as tantamount to national security.
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But prosecutors believe Cody starved Taz intentionally, which was tantamount to torture.
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And its decision to permit sales is not tantamount to FDA approval.
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Critics labeled the effort a vanity project, tantamount to a grail quest.
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The reconstituted Oath team is tantamount to a house cleaning of Yahoo.
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But not a denizen of Twitter, where restraint is tantamount to defeat.
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That makes the whole spirit of the thing tantamount to animal abuse.
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These are tantamount to overturning Roe, and there will be a backlash.
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In both cases, winning the Democratic primary is tantamount to winning office.
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I thought that being a criminal was tantamount to being a hero.
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It's tantamount to telling the civil service that they are totally disposable.
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Perhaps, to Muybridge, his murder victim was tantamount to an unsightly tree.
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But Odinga's supporters see such talk of unity as tantamount to surrender.
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Iran also has an oil revenue dividend that's tantamount to a UBI.
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This is tantamount to fomenting a coup of a democratically elected government.
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In Iran, it was viewed as tantamount to an act of war.
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In the past, the Kremlin deplored such arrests as tantamount to kidnapping.
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And having political views is not tantamount to "misconduct" for a juror.
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It was tantamount to slogging through a brier patch in a submarine.
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The lesson is tantamount to a tutorial in straight white male drag.
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But ... that could be tantamount to admitting presidential involvement in apparently improper discussions.
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It's tantamount to a sort of digital blackface, "dressing up" as different ethnicities.
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It's probably not tantamount to a misapplication of the law in its entirety.
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To edit out the guns in Schindler would be tantamount to Holocaust denial.
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Opponents say it is tantamount to putting a taser gun in the water.
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Ratings agency Standard and Poor's defined the restructuring as "tantamount to a default".
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The move, though non-binding, would be tantamount to annexation if carried out.
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This newspaper interview is tantamount to openly flaunting a growing partnership against Iran.
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To follow his logic, planting a Bradford pear would be tantamount to avicide.
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Lieu tweeted that Pence's actions were tantamount to "funneling taxpayer money" to Trump.
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For many, admitting we are imperfect is tantamount to saying we are worthless.
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" For the Kremlin, he added, Trump's approach is tantamount to "a huge coup.
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And Pakistan's human rights minister has called the action tantamount to war crimes.
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And that was a revelation to me — disagreement was not tantamount to ineffectiveness.
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But that is tantamount to a confession that prices are headed up eventually.
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But for Mr. Maduro and his cronies, that is tantamount to surrendering power.
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"This is tantamount to penalizing applicants based on sexual orientation," Ms. Vullo said.
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Personalized, untested vaccine schedules are tantamount to another outbreak across all socioeconomic populations.
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But betraying Jefferson is tantamount to declaring that we have lost our soul.
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He said that not informing Congress would have been tantamount to hiding information.
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Many felt that sending jobs overseas, even for survival, was tantamount to treason.
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Mainland China hopes to convince Taiwan that resisting unification is tantamount to suicide.
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One of his attorneys at the time called the lawsuit "tantamount to extortion".
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"It was tantamount to slavery," said David Milne, a retired printmaker in Cavan.
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Apparently in his family privacy is considered deceptive and absolute honesty is tantamount.
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This kind of planning and attentiveness to their relationship is tantamount to its success.
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Some may believe that performing in the parade is tantamount to endorsing a candidate.
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But it is wrong to regard calls for azaadi (independence) as tantamount to violence.
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Eight-year-old kids are taking care of toddlers in conditions tantamount to torture.
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Dating her was tantamount to dating a young, dumb, and full-of-cum human.
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I realized that facilitating these relationships was tantamount to my development as an artist.
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" King went on to say allowing people to stay would be "tantamount to amnesty.
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Every parent knows that raising a child can feel tantamount to a competitive sport.
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Never mind that their proposals are tantamount to imposing unfunded mandates on the states.
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Consecutive mandatory sentences could be tantamount to a life in prison, Ms. Droban said.
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Writing in favor of it is tantamount to criminal offense as per our law.
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Needless to say, wanting to strengthen an agreement is not tantamount to opposing it.
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Iranian leaders see meeting the 12 demands as tantamount to regime suicide, analysts say.
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Mr. Huffman called it tantamount to an impeachment inquiry, if not so in name.
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Writing in favor of it is tantamount to criminal offense, as per our law.
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Experts compare the sensation of being strangled to waterboarding; it is tantamount to torture.
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However, anything substantially greater than that sentence may be tantamount to a death sentence.
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Such economic slights against the Two Bridges community, Theodos said, is tantamount to racism.
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I've been to both and omitting Gray's villa is tantamount to an art crime.
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The defense said the dispatch was tantamount to a call for help for Mr. Gurley.
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Attempts to undermine the Balfour declaration are tantamount to rejecting Israel&aposs right to exist.
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But for pregnant women and mothers, it can become tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment.
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It will be tantamount to stating that people of color are too loud, demanding, complicated.
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Han Ga-ram, a human-rights lawyer, says the measure is tantamount to criminalising homosexuality.
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There's this talk of "false flags" and "rudimentary design" that can be tantamount to taunting.
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Y.: While an investigation is open and active, demands for oversight are tantamount to interference.
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Benjamin Hufbauer of the University of Louisville says they are tantamount to presidential publicity centres.
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Netanyahu was referring to applying Israeli law to the settlements, a step tantamount to annexation.
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He thinks hiring will be tantamount to support the next phase of growth for Peek.
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That would be an outrageous and offensive invasion of privacy tantamount to legally sanctioning humiliation.
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His decision "is tantamount to suspending the entire 10-year prison term," the newspaper reported.
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In Saudi eyes, that was tantamount to encouraging Iran to expand its sphere of influence.
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A federal court ruled that stop-and-frisk was unconstitutional and tantamount to racial profiling.
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Prosecutors said Bates' actions were tantamount to professional negligence and won the maximum allowable sentence.
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French President Emmanuel Macron addressed claims that the pullout was tantamount to deserting the Kurds.
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"Burstein's shakedown was so brazen that it was tantamount to extortion," the sanctions brief said.
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In other words, Jobs ouster was tantamount to a firing, but not an actual firing.
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Only admitting that would be tantamount to admitting that prohibition is both cynical and pointless.
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Trump slammed the company's move, saying it was tantamount to surrender, and threatened punitive taxes.
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The group's leader said the defense of Aleppo was tantamount to the defense of Damascus.
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D'Agostini sees the bill as "tantamount to coddling criminals" according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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But nor is it tantamount to "the Republican base," or the constituents of Republican legislators.
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When it comes to making the world a better place, concern for others is tantamount.
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In this town, being a little bit different is tantamount to being a violent criminal.
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Losing insurance — or being priced out of the market — is tantamount to losing health care.
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" He added that the current center-left's asylum policy was tantamount to a "social timebomb.
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Last year, Ukraine's parliament approved a resolution that said the deportations were tantamount to genocide.
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I have also learned that resistance to Mr. Trump is tantamount to resistance to God.
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In 1970, some saw the closing of museums as a harmful act tantamount to censorship.
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" And he describes the technology necessary for landing the rover on Mars as "tantamount to magic.
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As such, the perception of privacy and respect are tantamount for long-term engagement with customers.
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Thus, for citizenship purposes, birth in Puerto Rico became tantamount to birth in the United States.
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For independent contractors, responsible for their own gas and operating costs, speed is tantamount to profitability.
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Doing otherwise "would be tantamount to admitting to the inferiority of its own regime," he said.
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They argue that violations of NCAA rules are not tantamount to the commission of federal crimes.
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The new resolution was tantamount to a complete economic blockade of North Korea, the ministry said.
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Losing a therapist to suicide is tantamount to losing a family member or a close friend.
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A failure to properly integrate economics into our overall strategy is tantamount to planning to fail.
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Travel in this state, it suggested, was tantamount to risking your freedoms and perhaps your life.
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" He says forcing anyone to remain under these conditions is "tantamount to making them drink poison.
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The Justice Department argued that including Quebec was tantamount to a state illegally conducting foreign policy.
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Asking minorities to eschew identity politics is tantamount to asking them to ignore their own oppression.
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US President Donald Trump's recent announcement is tantamount to a death sentence for many of these refugees.
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A critic calls for impeachment The President's comments are tantamount to an admission of "mass murder," Sen.
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If that's the biggest argument they have, it's tantamount to the mission that we are cutting taxes.
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"FGV's practise/act of outsourcing its foreign workers to contractors is tantamount to exploitation," the panel said .
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However, he gave no further details on what appeared tantamount to a retroactive pardon for such inmates.
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He also told Dickerson he did not disagree with the view that abortion was tantamount to murder.
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He has a point when he says that exercising caution over warning signs is tantamount to complacency.
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Amr Darrag, a former minister in Mr Morsi's government, calls his death "tantamount to state-sponsored murder".
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Lebanon's U.N ambassador Amal Mudallali said the accusation was tantamount to "direct threats" to Lebanon's civilian infrastructure.
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In a sense this is tantamount to keeping an organ on its own dedicated life-support system.
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But when, as at Williams, they decry counter-arguments as tantamount to violence, they stray into censorship.
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The trend of eroding Democratic support for Israel is tantamount to a betrayal of fundamental American values.
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"For me, not being allowed to write is tantamount to being buried alive," he wrote to Stalin.
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As such, conceding defeat there would be tantamount to accepting a major loss of national political status.
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This would be tantamount to admitting that Mr. Redstone and National Amusements can also remove the board.
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But continued ambivalence, with polls narrowing, is tantamount to suggesting Clinton and Donald Trump represent comparable risks.
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Other Republicans argue that overruling the parliamentarian is tantamount to gutting the rules that make reconciliation special.
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Starving the administration of tax enforcement is tantamount to saying you don't have to pay your taxes.
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One source told Buzzfeed "the offer would be tantamount to the government accepting in full Labour's demands".
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Not reassuring the Europeans would be tantamount to pulling the rug out from under the NATO alliance.
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He laughed, Kawakubo did not, and it was tacitly understood that this was tantamount to a refusal.
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"That is tantamount to coming out of the EU, but being run by the EU," he added.
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Some Chinese activists also protested, arguing a censored search would be tantamount to complicity with Chinese censorship.
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Seila is challenging a so-called investigative demand by the CFPB, which is tantamount to a subpoena.
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The killing of another country's most important military official is tantamount to a formal declaration of hostilities.
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Betraying Madison and "the spirit of '87" is tantamount to acknowledging that we have lost our mind.
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They warned the farmers that participating in the play was tantamount to pledging allegiance to the guerrillas.
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Mr. Comey's point was that a desire expressed by a powerful leader is tantamount to an order.
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This would reassure Congress that authorizations for flexible implementation of protections will not be tantamount to repeal.
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Last year, President Trump suggested a move tantamount to destroying NATO: the withdrawal of the United States.
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Last week, before the court ruling, he described such a salary as tantamount to "corruption" in Mexico.
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This perpetuates the harmful, fatphobic belief that weight gain is tantamount to weakness and should be pitied.
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In Hungary, the parliament speaker this year said gay adoption was tantamount to "paedophilia in a moral sense".
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INGRAHAM: But you are saying the pardoning of Dinesh D&aposSouza could be tantamount to obstruction of justice?
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What Comey's essay omits to mention, is that one-off access is tantamount to access at any time.
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For me to dig in and just not give ground, that's on some levels tantamount to stupidity, right?
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Donna Edwards, to become the Democratic nominee -- tantamount to victory in that state -- and replace retiring Democratic Sen.
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For most fashionistas, the very idea of cutting up a Louis Vuitton handbag is tantamount to sartorial sacrilege.
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The letter described the article as "negative and tantamount to bullying," with Moir showing "malicious contempt" for Eugenie.
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"A child going without an education is tantamount to a crime," Harris says in the two-minute video.
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What follows are ten more in no particular order because ranking Smash Mouth remixes is tantamount to blasphemy.
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Being given a diagnosis of advanced melanoma, for example, was once tantamount to being handed a death warrant.
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To that end, threatening to release possibly imaginary recordings of their conversation is tantamount to intimidating a witness.
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They asked for anonymity because discussing the work of China's censors in public is tantamount to corporate suicide.
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Ford's attorney, Deborah Katz, has said that her client considers Kavanaugh's actions to be tantamount to attempted rape.
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Now, Bergdahl's lawyers are up in arms, claiming that referencing earlier comments is tantamount to making them now.
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Abandoning it would be tantamount to shooting yourself not just in the foot, but a more vital organ.
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Ironically, in this case caring meant not naming my disease because that would be tantamount to giving up.
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Some academics have gone so far as to suggest that criticizing the university is tantamount to destroying it.
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The parents argued their son was not terminally ill and that ending life support was tantamount to euthanasia.
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But we have to ask whether physical modesty is tantamount to racism or has a more legitimate basis.
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Over the past 2128 years, the rents demanded by landlords for clusters have been tantamount to price gouging.
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" She said the conditions were so bad that they were "tantamount to intentionally causing the spread of disease.
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He also ordered his forces to block the aid, saying that the assistance is tantamount to foreign intervention.
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Iran has maintained that it is not seeking a confrontation and the US actions are tantamount to bullying.
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Defending one's self, client or friend is a natural instinct, and beseeching leniency is not tantamount to obstruction.
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This is a profoundly undemocratic stance and is tantamount to the dogma of an isolated, elitist, intellectual regime.
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Republicans have repeatedly warned that electing Clinton as president would be tantamount to a third term for Obama.
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In other words, in the retail business, lagging behind the pack can be tantamount to a death sentence.
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Luc Ferry, a former education minister, suggested that the measure was tantamount to allowing Islamism in public schools.
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Socialists have long held that large stores of private wealth are tantamount to violence against those in need.
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In a video statement, Mr. Mnangagwa said voting for Mr. Chamisa was tantamount to voting for Mr. Mugabe.
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According to The Times, they are also investigating whether the family's request for money is tantamount to extortion.
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The core strength of the show are the galleries dedicated to individual artists, which are tantamount to mini-retrospectives.
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Many Islamist rebels in Aleppo follow Salafist Muslim ideas that hold shrines and tombs to be tantamount to idolatry.
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First, everything about the audio leaked by Kim Lannister (née Kardashian West) is tantamount to an approval from Swift.
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Doing so is tantamount to dropping auto insurance because you haven't had an accident in a while, he said.
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President Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed the charges as politically motivated, and tantamount to an attack on the Turkish Republic.
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I realize that, on one interpretation, this question is tantamount to asking why there are no Oscars for YouTubers.
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The argument that these pro-gun control teens are tantamount to Hitler is a classic example of association fallacy.
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That would be tantamount to launching an oil war against OPEC and Russia, in addition to the trade war.
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A docent tells visitors about the conditions of Davis's imprisonment after the war, describing it as tantamount to "torture".
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The firm isn't saying that the money is tantamount to what the scandal cost TPG in terms of reputation.
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They and the U.S. government argued that New Jersey's strategy is tantamount to authorizing the activity in particular locations.
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But that is further proof that the scheme is tantamount to authorization and violates the federal ban, he argued.
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The project is expected to reduce greenhouse emissions by 57,000 tons, tantamount to removing 9,300 cars from the road.
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Their line of attack is tantamount to saying: Mrs Clinton is the Public Enemy Number One, not Mr Trump.
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Publishing the text without critical notes could be considered tantamount to disseminating Nazi propaganda, which is outlawed in Germany.
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Prosecutors might be reluctant to say those words of prayer are tantamount to a general animosity against other races.
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"Silence is tantamount to complicity, especially at a time where the events are happening with increasing frequency," Mahmudabad said.
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It's tantamount to the Orioles dealing Cal Ripken in 1985 or the Mariners trading Ken Griffey Jr in 1994.
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In their artist-heavy enclave of east London this is tantamount, says George, "to reading the Nazi Paedophile Times".
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Apple contends that such measures would be tantamount to a backdoor that could be used to unlock any iPhone.
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For such social and intelligent animals this, together with the horrific experiments themselves, is tantamount to taxpayer-funded torture.
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Such software, Apple argued, is tantamount to a dangerous "backdoor" that would allow hackers to crack all iPhones' encryption.
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Chief Judge Dith Munty, who is a member of the CPP, said their absence was tantamount to a confession.
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The North Korean representative to the U.N. said President Trump's recent speech was tantamount to a declaration of war.
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On that topic, Musk has said dissuading people from using semi-autonomous driving technology is tantamount to killing them.
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It rests on the idea that messy insecurities move tantamount with the black excellence we often want to present.
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The president essentially has accused Mr. Brennan of lèse majesté — the crime of criticizing the monarch, tantamount to treason.
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Cipollone argued that impeachment in an election year is tantamount to "canceling an election" and "ripping up" Americans' ballots.
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Such an action is tantamount to excommunication, being cast off to the hinterlands of the conventional Navy for reassignment.
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But privacy activists say that when collecting and analyzing video footage is so easy, it's tantamount to a search.
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Protesting those policies, which, by the way, was how America was formed, is tantamount to rooting against our country.
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Here is the fundamental failure of the timeout: It's tantamount to abandoning your kid when they need you most.
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Taiwan cannot formally drop its claim to mainland China, because it would be seen as tantamount to declaring independence.
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"Departure in an unjust way without proper procedure is tantamount to smuggling, an illegal departure amounting to a crime."
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North Korea declared the U.N. steps to be an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade.
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Organized labor groups say the laws are tantamount to union-busting and are just another way to weaken unions.
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Estimating exactly how many Facebook posts are "sensational or spammy" is a tremendous undertaking tantamount to a fool's game.
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Blaming the United States, it said such obstacles were "tantamount to an uncivilized act of returning to the Dark Age".
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For Shell, partnering with a Rotenberg-linked firm was tantamount to "digging yourself your own sanctions grave," said that source.
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Former FBI director James Comey even suggested that covering your webcam was tantamount to locking your house or your door.
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic also understandably fears that being softer on Kosovo than the Kremlin is tantamount to political suicide.
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North Korea declared that tantamount to a declaration of war, and said that next time it might shoot them down.
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In the interview with CNN, Rubio tried to insist that backing a pathway to citizenship is hardly tantamount to amnesty.
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By contrast, Limbaugh, seeking to influence the views of his listeners, demonized Boehner's position as tantamount to destruction of America.
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Another common complaint is parents who felt that makeup was tantamount to superficiality, not something smart people ought to enjoy.
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Clinton for favoring more lenient immigration policies and calling her attack on Mr. Trump tantamount to an accusation of treason.
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But Apple rebuffed the court order, arguing that creating such software was tantamount to opening a "backdoor" into all iPhones.
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In October 2015, though, the company was turning up many pages deep into a search, which is tantamount to disappearing.
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Critics, including Michael Allen of End Mass Incarceration Houston, believe that for-profit prison labor is tantamount to slavery redux.
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It would be tantamount to the elected branches of government doing something, and daring the judicial branch to stop them.
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She has said that abortion is tantamount to murder, but has been a proponent of sex education and birth control.
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Several speakers expressed a sense of victimhood, that their beliefs were portrayed by reporters as intolerant or tantamount to bigotry.
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After all, local activists argued, deporting Christians back to the war zones of Iraq was tantamount to a death sentence.
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For a people whose culture is indelibly tied to the land, protecting the environment is tantamount to preserving their history.
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To fight the United States to a draw is tantamount to victory, as far as the North Koreans are concerned.
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If that is the best remedy the DOJ can come up with, that would be tantamount to blocking the merger.
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On Friday, Julio Borges, the opposition lawmaker who leads the legislature, called the Constituent Assembly's actions tantamount to a coup.
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In the end, the proclamation is tantamount to shooting at a mosquito when being attacked by a herd of elephants.
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"This and the administration's other efforts to address the epidemic are tantamount to reshuffling chairs on the Titanic," said Kennedy.
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Shutting off Facebook's access to Apple devices would be a radical step, tantamount to declaring war on a major competitor.
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To me, just having the state condone the option of unburdening others is tantamount to more than a green light.
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"In a binary race, hoping one candidate will lose is tantamount to hoping the other candidate prevails," Gonzalez said. Rep.
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Advocates of Iraqi sovereignty have consistently called for museums to return objects they consider tantamount to their nation's cultural heritage.
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The conditions Manning faces in prison are brutal, and some of her advocates say they're tantamount to state-sponsored harassment.
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KKR bought a business from Jorge Nitzan in 2014, and later discovered accounting problems that it says were tantamount to fraud.
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Upon hearing the news, one of his friends remarked that becoming a missionary would be tantamount to throwing one's life away.
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We will have no good reason to deny them human rights; to do otherwise would be tantamount to discrimination and slavery.
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It appears to be tantamount to an export subsidy to Chinese firms, with a side order of backhanders for local elites.
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"This and the administration's other efforts to address the epidemic are tantamount to reshuffling chairs on the Titanic," Kennedy told CNN.
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As Ms Oster notes, internet mums frequently write as though ignoring their advice is tantamount to abandoning a child to wolves.
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Critics argued the administration's planned Central America aid cutoff would be tantamount to cutting off its nose to spite its face.
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North Korea considers the broadcasts tantamount to an act of war, and at times has responded to them with artillery fire.
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There's also a powerful incentive not to mention a hospital-acquired infection: Counting deaths is tantamount to documenting your own failures.
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And seeing Paris Is Burning was tantamount to reading Baldwin or Butler; to watching Truffaut or Malick; to first having sex.
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" In remarks made to London-based Chatham House on Wednesday, al-Thani said the demands were tantamount to "surrendering (Qatar's) sovereignty.
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"If Xi becomes 'lingxiu' at the congress, it would be tantamount to being party chairman," another source with leadership ties said.
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"Normalization" of Trump and what he stands for is, to the cucks I associate with at least, considered tantamount to death.
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The question is thus: how do you turn that philosophy into a party that's got what's tantamount to a religious following?
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In humans, this would be tantamount to sucking in your ribcage to the point of collapse, and then releasing it again.
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But Apple has resisted, arguing such a move is tantamount to making a private company an arm of U.S. law enforcement.
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The prime minister has said failure to pass a "realistic" budget would be tantamount to a "suicide operation" against the economy.
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" Former OGE Director Walter Shaub said that the acting director's letter to the Justice Department is "tantamount to a criminal referral.
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ACKMAN: BUT THE FTC SAID THE COMPANY WAS TANTAMOUNT TO A PYRAMID SCHEME AND FORCED THEM TO FUNDEMENTALLY RESTRUCTURE THEIR BUSINESS.
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For Russia to continue such work, knowing the likelihood of getting caught, is tantamount to saying that it does not care.
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"Anything less is tantamount to denying the reality of climate change," Justice Democrats communications director Waleed Shahid said in statement Tuesday.
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Some committee members, including many who represent minority communities, argued excluding superdelegates on the first ballot was tantamount to voter disenfranchisement.
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This attention to detail — tantamount to a reverence — is what makes much of the fair's art so intriguing and, simply, great.
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As is often the case in New York, which is heavily Democratic, the primary could be tantamount to the entire election.
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It would be tantamount to renouncing his vision of himself as a powerful leader who wants to Make Russia Great Again.
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Such restrictions, Russian officials have said, would be tantamount to an outright ban, and Russia would consider boycotting the 2018 Olympics.
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"Those are people who only believe in a peace process that is tantamount to the Taliban negotiating its surrender," she said.
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The assassination of Suleimani was tantamount to a declaration of war and has escalated tensions between the United States and Iran.
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But to Gabbard's defenders, the refusal to take Gabbard at face value is tantamount to targeting her for her unorthodox views.
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If, as Trump claims, a Clinton presidency would be tantamount to a third Obama term in office, then bring it on.
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The court concluded that merely sharing existing information with the federal government was not tantamount to making states enforce federal law.
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But to the administration, policies that help noncitizens duck immigration penalties are tantamount to an assault on the rule of law.
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" Nadler went even further, telling the press the concession by Pelosi was "tantamount" to calling the committee's activities an "impeachment inquiry.
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Accepting foreign supplies during the current political crisis would be tantamount to accepting foreign political intervention, from Maduro's point of view.
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That investment is tantamount to Michael Jordan hitting a grand slam on his first at bat wearing a Birmingham Barons hat.
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Their continued display on public grounds would have felt tantamount to endorsement of the prejudicial message they were designed to transmit.
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Creating HPIA was tantamount to reassuring people that it was safe, even desirable, to live above a network of lava tubes.
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To take no stand or stay silent in the face of mounting evidence of such of immorality is tantamount to consent.
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Tatchell said Turkey's recent clampdown on the media was tantamount to a "war" on civil liberties, human rights, and press freedom.
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American companies are borrowing money to buy their own shares in what is tantamount to a huge, slow-motion leveraged buyout.
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Yxta Maya Murray, a professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, said that images taken by force were tantamount to robbery.
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The judge apparently agreed, convicting her on the grounds that her failure to get adequate antenatal care was tantamount to murder.
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Much of this is the result of living in a fragmented information landscape, in which news consumption is tantamount to shopping.
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That grief is also tantamount to Rey's story, as a woman left behind by her family, and forced to fend for herself.
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The American people are footing a really big bill for what is tantamount to a slow rolling invasion of the United States.
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The website said one source had told it that "the offer would be tantamount to the government accepting in full Labour's demands".
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Though inclusion on the list would not automatically lead to sanctions, many feared that it would be tantamount to a scarlet letter.
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The Trump dossier was far from research; it was a key document in the effort to overturn an election, tantamount to treason.
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Yeah. Is taking the iPad away from my 2200 year old tantamount to taking a crack pipe away from a crack addict?
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Under the pact, Canada agreed to scrap a class of milk that U.S. producers said was tantamount to circumventing anti-dumping rules.
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No, net neutrality is not tantamount to government control of the internet; no, broadband investment hasn't evaporated since net neutrality was passed.
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But in the meantime the paper proposes an interim temporary customs union that will be tantamount to staying in the current one.
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Within Somali enclaves in Minneapolis and Pakistani ones in Dallas, renunciation of Islam is tantamount to renunciation of an entire social circle.
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She recently published an op-ed arguing that the caravan was tantamount to an invasion and a threat to the nation's security.
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For budget hawks, continuing to do nothing is simply tantamount to greater deficit spending as increased transportation costs take their economic toll.
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Adobo chicken is the kind of thing that Filipina mothers and grandmothers have a cherished recipe that's tantamount to a family heirloom.
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Relinquishing his demand for special status there would be tantamount to Mr Erdogan admitting his designs of a sultanate had been dented.
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This is tantamount, in their eyes, to a tax on women—and worse, one which European governments have no power to undo.
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They're also tantamount to winning the general election in a lot of places because the places are either so Democratic or Republican.
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Mr. Aquino has responded with alarm to the prospect of a Duterte presidency, saying it is tantamount to a return to dictatorship.
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However, Brussels has ruled out a separate deal just for aviation on the grounds that it would be tantamount to cherry-picking.
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A Trump victory in November, Mr. Rapp said, would be tantamount to Richard M. Nixon continuing in the White House despite Watergate.
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Democratic lawmakers have seized on Mr. Mulvaney's on-camera admission of a quid pro quo, calling it tantamount to a televised confession.
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The prequels were, for many, tantamount to an attack on an institution, and The Phantom Menace was the unforgettable, unforgivable opening assault.
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So allowing women to have abortions may be viewed by women and men alike as tantamount to endorsing a promiscuous mating strategy.
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"Really, I am eating myself," Mr. Jubori said, adding that in his tribal culture, leaving behind family members is tantamount to betrayal.
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In court filings, the Trump administration argues that allowing any minors in its custody to receive abortions is tantamount to "facilitating" it.
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Strong letters of recommendation are tantamount, as is having a professor who will fight on your behalf in a dwindling job market.
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It was "tantamount to opening a war," Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador to the UN, told CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Friday.
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Democrats argued aggressively that a trial without it is tantamount to an extension of Mr. Trump's attempts to cover up his actions.
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This was tantamount to telling banks to trade with Qatari institutions "at their own peril", a Middle Eastern banker in Dubai said.
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Democrats have said that if Trump asked Zelensky to investigate Biden, it is tantamount to promoting foreign interference in the 2020 election.
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These are evil days when they see the breakup of families with needless and heartless rationales that is tantamount to political expediency.
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Life of hardship Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims live a life of hardship and oppression that a recent report found to be tantamount to genocide.
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It is early days, but in a small subset of patients this mechanism has produced long-term remissions that are tantamount to cures.
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So-called conversion therapy is a debunked practice that's tantamount to child abuse and is proven to have dangerous consequences for its victims.
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"It was a bunch of rantings that was tantamount to rambling so it wasn't the most lucid letter," Commissioner Richard Ross told reporters.
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The Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines said the SEC ruling was "tantamount to killing" Rappler, and "sends a chilling effect to media".
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The court is so slow in dealing with its case overload, critics say, that the so-called "privileged forum" is tantamount to impunity.
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Taken together, the researchers argue, the modifications are tantamount to government censorship and point to an increasing need for oversight of government websites.
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Rejecting climate change science is tantamount to rejecting the growing green technology sector that it fuels, which puts America at a global disadvantage.
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Losing Title IV aid is tantamount to a death sentence for a college, given how loan-dependent the higher education system has become.
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Arguing that the right to feed is a woman's right, anthropologist Penny Van Esterik asserts that denying this right is tantamount to torture.
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They should have immunity from our federal immigration laws, ostensibly because separating them from their children would be tantamount to a hate crime.
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He believes that to negotiate away his nuclear deterrent is tantamount to suicide, as they believe happened to Saddam Hussein and Muhammar Kaddafi.
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But a finding of illicit motivation often is tantamount to an accusation that the decision maker has violated his constitutional oath of office.
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Compromise on that issue would be tantamount to a capitulation to the wrong-headed opposition, or even a betrayal of America's very principles.
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It's a position that some have argued is tantamount to Sanders admitting he's not serious about actually making any of his policies law.
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But her support for the right is rooted in Jenner's belief that a Democrat in office is tantamount to the dismantling of America.
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North Korea will never denuclearize, and insisting on denuclearization as a precondition to talks is tantamount to saying there will be no talks.
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Not people who think proving a point is tantamount to getting something done, or who mistake pragmatism and bipartisan compromise with selling out.
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It was tantamount to a recognition that a system for dealing with a problem like the one involving Mr. Porter did not exist.
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Erasing it, they said, would be tantamount to wiping away part of history, which, they said, should be remembered, despicable as it was.
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And it was years after studies and human rights groups had discredited the practice entirely, finding it invalid and tantamount to sexual abuse.
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The commissioner said Mr Trudeau and his office acted outside the bounds of convention, and that their behaviour was "tantamount to political direction".
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Cases made in these terms are tantamount to saying that our society should admit immigrants primarily, if not exclusively, for our own benefit.
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They've already bought into a corrupt system, acceding to the teacher's demands, and signing the petition is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
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First Words In the escalating rhetoric of public shaming, being embarrassed online is tantamount to being wiped from the face of the earth.
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A DM is tantamount to sitting across the table from someone who has given you their time and their openness, Dr. Morris said.
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Its leak would be tantamount to someone leaking the finale of Game of Thrones to Amazon customers who pre-ordered the new season.
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Democrats have said that if Trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden, it is tantamount to promoting foreign interference in the 2020 election.
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South and North Korea have signed military and other agreements in recent months that Mr. Kim said were tantamount to a nonaggression treaty.
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At issue is the prevalent and problematic reading of BDS as being tantamount to anti-Semitism (which is a felony offense in Germany).
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But status quo-ists see this as tantamount to surrender, and believe the US should be wholly focused on stopping or reversing that rise.
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Kim, meanwhile, may be worried that revealing the locations of nuclear facilities would be tantamount to "providing Washington with a target list," Fitch continued.
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Because everyone will be fighting over a finite amount of network capacity, that's tantamount to offering those that don't pay up shittier service anyhow.
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" The actress calls out Gleiberman personally, writing, "You are an active endorser of what is tantamount to harassment and abuse of actresses and women.
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In November, TLP staged a crippling blockade of the capital after a tweak to a religious oath, which it claims was tantamount to blasphemy.
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Maduro has ordered the military to block the aid, saying that the assistance is tantamount to foreign intervention and denying Venezuela faces a crisis.
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If you knew that one of your country's foes was engaging in what is tantamount to cyberwarfare, what is your obligation to inform authorities?
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Because simply asking people to stop eating poppy seeds is tantamount to stripping them off their freedoms, FDL has instead developed a new variety.
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Advocacy groups, however, argue the app is tantamount to encouraging self-harm and child endangerment, both of which do violate Google's terms of service.
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In the minds of Democrats, though, Pai's attempt to undo those safeguards — implemented under former President Barack Obama — are tantamount to suffocating the web.
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That practice has been criticized by rights groups as tantamount to forced child labor, and testimonies collected by defector groups describe harsh training regimes.
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" She added: "The American people are footing a really big bill for what is tantamount to a slow-rolling invasion of the United States.
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Pyongyang regards such broadcasts as tantamount to an act of war and has fired on the giant speakers used for them in the past.
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The Iraqi government claimed the PKK, Turkey's Kurdish insurgents, had arrived in Kirkuk, and said that would be tantamount to war, per the AP.
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The performances have been criticized by rights groups as tantamount to forced child labor, and testimonies collected by defector groups describe harsh training regimes.
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This bill is tantamount to an illegal immigration "stimulus" — de facto amnesty to any "sponsor," family member or "potential sponsor" of an unaccompanied minor.
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To display knowledge, the acquisition of which takes time, is tantamount to showing too much respect for the opposition tribe, who know nothing anyway.
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On one side of the debate are those, like Blum, who argue that any consideration of race in admissions is tantamount to racial discrimination.
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Democrats have argued that Trump fired Comey in an effort to end the investigation and that his dismissal is tantamount to obstruction of justice.
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They also suggest that a presidentially appointed Commission chair would be tantamount to an "election czar," with vast power to persecute the president's opponents.
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Regardless, each EU member nation now has two years to start enforcing the law that some have said is tantamount to widespread internet censorship.
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Regardless, she said, leaving the rigs up would be tantamount to rewarding polluters with the windfall of not having to pay to remove them.
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Republican Senator Marco Rubio said working with WikiLeaks should be considered a crime because it was tantamount to cooperating with a foreign intelligence agency.
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But accepting the reduced monetary transfer from Israel, he said, would be tantamount to acknowledging that the payments support terrorism, a premise he rejects.
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"This limitless grant of emergency powers is tantamount to autocracy," a Philippine rights group, the Concerned Lawyers for Civil Liberties, said in a statement.
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"The decision, which is tantamount to killing the online news site, sends a chilling effect to media organizations in the country," one group said.
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They are refusing to isolate and still socialize in large groups; they are perpetuating a type of elder neglect that is tantamount to abuse.
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The proposal has remained under review for months amid fierce resistance from Republican lawmakers, who view the concept as tantamount to importing price controls.
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Authoritarian governments like Russia and China have been known to abuse Interpol's "red notices," tantamount to international arrest warrants, to hunt down political enemies.
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The same person who says that terminating a pregnancy is tantamount to manslaughter can strongly feel that a woman has the right to choose.
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And the migrants they've seized on the high seas have in many cases been sent to detention facilities that are tantamount to death sentences.
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Mr Tucker has argued that Vaporflys fail the first test and should be banned, since they are tantamount to putting springs on runners' legs.
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Other EU officials said Vienna's action was tantamount to "giving the finger to the rest of Europe", and "for the benefit of Austrian tabloids".
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"The decision, which is tantamount to killing the online news site, sends a chilling effect to media organizations in the country," the group said.
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"This operation would be tantamount to pursuing full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula, and risk conflict elsewhere in the region," the report concludes.
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Plus, as they note, defaulting to the military to save nuclear is tantamount to admitting commercial defeat — not something likely to inspire market confidence.
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Salvini called the comparison "disrespectful" while M5S said the suspension – which was ordered by Education Minister Marco Bussetti (a Lega member) - was tantamount to censorship.
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Prosecutors said Bates' actions were tantamount to professional negligence and in May 2016 he was sentenced to four years in prison, the maximum term allowed.
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During the trial, which lasted six days, prosecutors alleged that Gray's arrest was tantamount to an assault because it was an improper, the Sun reports.
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In some countries—China and Zimbabwe, for example—candid discussions with American officials are regarded as tantamount to treason; there and elsewhere retribution duly followed.
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With communication planet Mercury messed up in big-mouth fire sign Sagittarius, the energy is tantamount to that of an uncontrollable toddler blabbing everyone's secrets.
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The pre-Islamic era is dismissed as the age of ignorance, its relics deemed ungodly, and some clerics even see patriotism as tantamount to idolatry.
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Computer scientists have demonstrated that solving a level in the popular video game is tantamount to solving some of the hardest problems in computational science.
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"What the defendants admitted to today, quite simply, is tantamount to stealing money from their fellow taxpayers," U.S. Attorney Carpenito said in a press release.
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Robinson's supporters had claimed that a 13 months in prison was tantamount to a death sentence, considering the presence of Muslim gang members in prison.
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The current fundraising demands placed on members of Congress are tantamount to a "committee tax," which interferes with the work of serving constituents and country.
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Telling Turkey to soften its counter-terrorism laws was tantamount to asking it to give up its struggle against terrorism, he said in a speech.
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" Another shareholder admonished the company for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying the company's handling of users' personal data was "tantamount to a human rights violation.
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As to transferring federal public lands to Western states, that would be tantamount to U.S. taxpayers handing over $6900 trillion worth of land and assets.
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Animal rights activists protested outside the venue on both days, saying the sport is tantamount to animal cruelty and calling for it to be banned.
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"Anything over 10 to 15 years is a significant period of incarceration, which could, given his age, be tantamount to a death sentence," he said.
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Keeping the roles together is tantamount to asking the president of the United States to also serve as the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
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Colombian negotiators said repeatedly during the talks that the FARC saw jail time as tantamount to surrender and would leave the table before accepting it.
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Apple — backed by privacy and civil liberties groups — said the software was tantamount to a dangerous "backdoor" that could give hackers access to all iPhones.
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A biopharmaceutical company hoping to disrupt the cannabis extraction market is claiming some Canadian licensed producers are selling cannabis oils that are tantamount to placebos.
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"Defying an E.C.J. ruling would be tantamount to Poland's legal Polexit, which could lead to Poland's rulings not being recognized in the E.U.," he said.
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It's as if America's most ancient civilian office, the local election clerk, has become saddled with new and alien responsibilities tantamount to a military contractor.
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"I was over the moon excited because having your portrait done as an artist by Chuck Close is tantamount to being canonized," Ms. Brown said.
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Social media users criticized Ms. Streisand's comments as tone-deaf and said they were tantamount to telling sexual assault survivors to just get over it.
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It's what makes Taborn's musician friends highly protective of him, as if to speak about anything other than his music would be tantamount to betrayal.
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His position sets him apart from other conservatives, who typically cast affirmative action as tantamount to discrimination against white people — an argument Thomas doesn't buy.
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Dakar, Senegal (CNN)In one suburb of Dakar, Senegal's capital, every week, one person lands a sum of money that is tantamount to a jackpot.
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"These steps ... are against the rules of Pakistan and tantamount to destroying democratic norms and the constitution," the spokeswoman, Firdous Ashiq Awan, said on Twitter.
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Privately consuming pornography of this sort, or engaging in sexual fantasy, is not tantamount to harassment or assault or the creation of a hostile workplace.
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Mr. Affleck settled the civil sexual harassment lawsuits filed against him, something that his detractors have seized upon as tantamount to an acknowledgment of guilt.
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Conspiring to help Iran secretly participate in global financial transactions, according to the judge, is not tantamount to providing material support to a terrorist organization.
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"It's unfair to punish the girl alone, as that is tantamount to punishing the victim," Tanzanian columnist Jenerali Ulimwengu wrote in The East African newspaper.
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Now, the Trump administration is seemingly putting their ideology into action with a new domestic gag rule that's tantamount to a death sentence for women.
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Cruz, however, has argued that the move was tantamount to an "internet giveaway" that would give authoritarian governments control over the internet and free speech.
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"To not act on this problem now is tantamount to actively supporting and funding the tearing apart of the fabric of our societies," Steinberg wrote.
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Where Catholics are a minority, as in the Middle East, reporting a pedophile priest to the civil authorities is tantamount to sentencing him to death.
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Given the president's view about the unfair mindset of Mueller's team, submitting to a voluntary interview would be tantamount to walking into the lion's den.
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Saturday night's fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, encapsulates the notion that "MMA Math" is tantamount to precisely nothing in the Octagon.
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Former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka went so far as to suggest on Sean Hannity's show late last week that the deal was tantamount to treason.
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The government's supporters allege that the proceedings amount to little more than a desperate attempt to unseat a democratically elected president, tantamount to a coup.
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As many Chinese officials see it, calling for free elections, in which the central government would have no ability to veto candidates, is tantamount to separatism.
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It also noted that "We will not be publishing any reviews or columns by Rich until this investigation is complete," which is tantamount to a suspension.
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While some observers argued that Trump's approach could be tantamount to a debt default, Schiff told CNBC the GOP nominee was fundamentally correct in his observation.
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Ted Cruz, for instance, has accused Trump of wanting to pull out of NATO and says his policies are tantamount to a dangerous form of isolationism.
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The group stated that the introduction of autonomous technology would be tantamount to a "third revolution in warfare," following the development of gunpowder and nuclear weapons.
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The investigation has also been criticized as tantamount to a political witch hunt after Gordhan's criticism of government expenditure, particularly by top political offices, and corruption.
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Falcon, a 56-year-old former soldier and state governor, has broken with the main opposition coalition, arguing that abstention is tantamount to voting for Maduro.
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Grimm's ACLU legal team allege that's tantamount to sex discrimination under Title IX, the law that ensures equal opportunity in federally funded education regardless of sex.
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"To drop Easter from Cadbury's Easter Egg Hunt in my book is tantamount to spitting on the grave of Cadbury," he said in an emailed statement.
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Comments on shrinking the balance sheet, which Dudley said was tantamount to raising rates, steepened the yield curve, after a flattening trend the last two weeks.
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Some might argue deploying this sort of offensive technology is tantamount to a pre-emptive military strike -- something North Korea says it would respond to militarily.
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But naming the perpetrators of the conflict, labeling them as morally bankrupt, and withholding funding are not tantamount to an effective policy in the long term.
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Some think that the opposition of the two Republican Commissioners now sitting on the Commission is tantamount to a death warrant for the Open Internet rules.
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While this may have seemed bold, victory in the primary was tantamount to election, and the race would not have hurt the Republicans chances in November.
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Some supporters of the president argue that Pelosi's comments, in a Washington Post interview, are tantamount to admitting there is insufficient evidence to launch impeachment proceedings.
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Despite claims by some lawmakers, continuing with the current transition timeline is not tantamount to handing over the keys of the internet to Russia and China.
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In March 2016, Anderson co-authored a report that found that 17 percent of more than 1,000 foreign domestic workers experienced conditions tantamount to forced labor.
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But today there's a belief that since words can cause stress, and stress can have physiological effects, stressful words are tantamount to a form of violence.
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"To say the positions of yoga are no more than exercise are tantamount to saying water baptism is just aqua aerobics," he said during a sermon.
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Others objected to contraception they said was tantamount to abortion, though there are substantial questions about whether that characterization was correct as a matter of science.
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I assume that some historians and journalists omit certain of these appalling stories because they dismiss them as mere gossip and perhaps tantamount to fake news.
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"That's tantamount to a miscarriage of justice," said Gooi Soon Seng, the lawyer representing the accused Indonesian, Siti Aisyah, in an interview after the court hearing.
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The letter called the initial questioning of Flynn in January 2017 "a set-up — tantamount to a 'frame'" aimed at forcing Flynn out of the administration.
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The plan comes alongside moves by some EU countries to introduce digital taxes on major U.S. tech companies, steps condemned by Washington as tantamount to protectionism.
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In Trump's mind, acknowledging that fact -- and, no matter what he thinks, it is a fact -- is tantamount to admitting he didn't win fair and square.
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That go-it-alone attitude has raised alarms at the Pentagon and among American Navy experts, who said such a blockade would be tantamount to war.
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"For women who have been victims of domestic violence, a gun in the home can be tantamount to a death sentence," said Brady President Dan Gross.
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The pre-Islamic era is dismissed as the age of ignorance and its relics are deemed ungodly, and some clerics even see patriotism as tantamount to idolatry.
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My 2015 news analysis found that most journalists frame Anonymous as "malicious pranksters" whose missions are broadly tantamount to tying the enemy's shoelaces together and running away.
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My abiding preconception—that a loss of vision was tantamount to an expulsion from the kind of average night most of us take for granted—was shattered.
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How it could backfire However, analysts don't believe that China would actually dump Treasuries in part because it would be tantamount to shooting itself in the foot.
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China's Ministry of Commerce said that preparing tariffs on $200 billion more of the country's exports to the United States was tantamount to 'extreme pressure and blackmail.
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In any case, criminal courts in China have a 99% conviction rate, so being accused of a crime in China is almost always tantamount to a conviction.
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For Mr. Cash, hearing his father's words come alive to music written by others was tantamount to communicating and having the chance to collaborate with him again.
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Reviewing these would be tantamount to reviewing one of those pop out pairs of 3D glasses that come inside a Blu-Ray case for some tentpole flick.
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has called for the deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier, something critics say is tantamount to threatening U.S. military intervention to topple Maduro.
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The dual screens are tantamount for not just manga, but graphic novels, comics, and more, where the visual and reading experience can rely on interplay between pages.
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One told Fox that Robinson's lawyer warned that, considering the presence of Muslim gang members in prison, a 13-month sentence was tantamount to a death sentence.
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To many on the British side, this would be tantamount to keeping Britain in the EU. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
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But unlike Mr Buffett's stable business, Mr Wu has relied on the sales of short-term, high-yielding insurance policies, tantamount to a hidden form of debt.
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While some moderates envision a path to citizenship for DACA recipients, conservatives -- particularly those in the House Freedom Caucus -- have called such a move tantamount to amnesty.
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Let's start by dealing with the inevitable argument that cancelling the daily briefing will be tantamount to censorship or at least reduced access to our elected leaders.
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No, she believes the world's population, resources, and space are a zero-sum game, and that the growth of non-white communities is tantamount to white genocide.
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The life she lived before she transformed into Angelyne seems incidental; writing about her past seems tantamount to CNN doing a story about how Santa isn't real.
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For Trump and many other conservatives, this is tantamount to letting lawbreakers go free, and the Republican presidential nominee often highlights horrific crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
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Admitting that you misled the press because the President misled you is tantamount to taking your credibility, pouring gasoline on it and then setting it on fire.
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She won a narrow victory Tuesday night in a crowded field to become the Democratic nominee, which in heavily Democratic Baltimore is tantamount to winning in November.
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THEY'RE – IN THIS DEAL IT'S TANTAMOUNT TO GIVING HALF THE COMPANY AWAY AND PAYING 75% HIGHER THAN WHAT THE COMPANY WAS VALUED AT ONLY SIX MONTHS AGO.
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While no person may realistically demand perfection in matters of Constitutional interpretation, for a judge to apply such a methodology is tantamount to a dereliction of duty.
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Currently, the Justice Department considers handling money earned by legal cannabis businesses tantamount to money laundering, discouraging credit unions and banks from serving these state-legalized businesses.
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The letter, organized by the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA), said the tariffs are tantamount to taxing American consumers and will hurt working class families.
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Privileging an artefact over the liberty of the human spirit is tantamount to worshipping false gods, to which the only riposte is an act of irreversible profanation.
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Ten spots of difference doesn't seem like much but in a sport where recruiting titles are very often tantamount to national championships, it leaves a massive indent.
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These things—allowing herself to be the "other" woman, and bucking the artistic community in favor of herself—were tantamount to cardinal sins in my young brain.
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At the same time, others worried that it would be tantamount to handing him a narrative that he could play to his advantage in the upcoming campaign.
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Otzma Yehudit advocates annexing the occupied territories, expelling "enemies" — widely understood to mean Arabs — and seizing the Temple Mount, a move tantamount to declaring war on Islam.
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Tinkering with the News Feed algorithm or hiring editors to turn Facebook into a media company are tantamount to rearranging the interior design of Facebook's MPK20 building.
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The watchdog group Common Cause, in separate complaints filed with the Justice Department and the FEC, alleged that the $130,000 was tantamount to in-kind campaign contribution.
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The black experience in the South is tantamount to the biblical flood; we've stumbled off the ark without an inkling of what things were like before it.
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"If the name that everyone is calling you consistently misgenders you, that's tantamount to torture," said Moira Meltzer-Cohen, one of the attorneys for the Texas plaintiffs.
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His decision has tremendous implications for the future of this market, and is tantamount to the referee picking the winner of the Super Bowl before the kickoff.
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It was a decision that brought relief to the trans community and outraged conservatives who believe supporting a trans child's gender identity is tantamount to child abuse.
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Yet when fat becomes fashionable — even as women whose bodies place them beyond the spectrum of standard sizes do not reap the benefits — it's tantamount to appropriation.
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And they argue that because the federal government fundamentally has power over immigration law, that sort of obstruction is tantamount to ignoring the separation of powers itself.
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The idea that making hiring more costly will spur innovation is tantamount to requiring companies to reduce the size of their physical presence so they become more productive.
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Buying foreign bonds, proposed by an adviser of premier Shinzo Abe, was tantamount to currency intervention and breaching the finance ministry's jurisdiction on exchange-rate policy, Sakurai said.
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His nomination will be greeted with dismay by climate activists and environmentalists who will see it as tantamount to a takeover of US foreign policy by Big Oil.
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Of note, the zoologist Susan Crockford, who writes the blog "Polar Bear Science" found the critique in BioScience tantamount to "academic rape," as she wrote in a tweet.
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Hariri said last week Lebanon was a long way from bankruptcy but failure to pass a "realistic" budget would be tantamount to a "suicide operation" against the economy.
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Photographs of the men went viral on Sunday drawing an angry response from Malaysians online, who felt the Australians' behavior was "tantamount to insulting the country," Bernama said.
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Despite my Irish first name, heritage, and citizenship (obtained here in the US, years ago), to me, tubers are tantamount to poison—a poison most other people relish.
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Now restrictions on unlimited immigration, enforcing immigration laws on the books, even simply working for the Department of Homeland Security, apparently makes you tantamount to being a Nazi.
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"The media is already braving strong pressures in the form of press advices and measures of intimidation from ruling quarters which are tantamount to undeclared censorship," it said.
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In the face of such obvious evil, the United States can denounce Beijing all we want, but absent action, our condemnation at this point is tantamount to condoning.
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He must have realized that this would have been tantamount to an admission of wrongdoing, effectively ending my otherwise spotless, 50-year career on Wall Street in disgrace.
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American submarines went on to devastate Japan's civilian merchant fleet during World War II, in a campaign that was later acknowledged to be tantamount to a war crime.
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"This is tantamount to my insensititivity insensitivity [sic] to people especially women," read a note found in the coat pocket of Brenda Woodard, 18, who was taken Nov.
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The duo, who create handmade artwork for weddings and other events, contended that creating invitations for gay or lesbian couples would be tantamount to endorsing same-sex marriage.
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And underdog entrants have grown skilled at presenting their campaigns in altruistic terms, suggesting that finding a platform for a worthy cause is a reward tantamount to winning.
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Remembering this history became tantamount to treason among exiles in Cuban Miami, but the anti-imperialist nationalism it produced on the island was a powerful weapon for Castro.
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It was Mr. Videgaray, then Mexico's finance minister, who orchestrated Mr. Trump's visit to Mexico before the election, a move seen by many Mexicans as tantamount to treason.
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"In current circumstances handing (the woman) over to Polish law enforcement authorities would be tantamount to handing her over to wild cannibals," Maciej Burda told private broadcaster TVN24.
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A blockade would be tantamount to an act of war, and the declaration was understandably met with deep apprehension by China and sparked fears of an armed conflict.
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"To not be available or be indifferent is almost the equivalent of tearing them down because neglect and indifference is tantamount to rejecting your children," says Towns-Miranda.
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To testify under oath, given Trump's countless on-record and oftentimes conflicting statements through Twitter and other media outlets, may be tantamount to walking into a perjury trap.
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His foreign minister-to-be, Marcelo Ebrard, stated that simply discussing the Nicaraguan or Venezuelan cases at the O.A.S. was tantamount to interfering in these nations' internal affairs.
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Furthermore, the testimony of non-Muslim witnesses in defense carries less weight, and, in most cases, the filing of charges is tantamount to punishment, because bail is denied.
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Because the Council rarely votes on measures that are not assured of passage, the bill's removal from the calendar for a vote on Friday is tantamount to its defeat.
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Addressing the subject with the North is particularly difficult given that Kim&aposs government is believed to view the raising of human rights as tantamount to advocating regime change.
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With some calls in France, notably by presidential election front runner Francois Fillon, to lift sanctions on Russia, Ayrault said it would be tantamount to giving in to Moscow.
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To say this is tantamount to sacrilege and I know there are plenty of people in each of these cities trying hard to unify and create rather than separate.
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Even in a culture that idolizes high-profile college dropouts (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs), to refuse higher education in America has become tantamount to refusing to fulfill your potential.
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Despite having officially joined Paramore again—he's been clear from the start that reigniting their friendship was of tantamount importance to him—he's also touring and writing with HALFNOISE.
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To the ethnonationalists, this capitulation to the inevitability of demographic takeover is tantamount to treason, making it an urgent matter of national self-defense to stymie the majority's will.
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The public prosecutor earlier this week urged action against outlets publishing what it called false news, and Sisi said defamation of the army or police was tantamount to treason.
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Ignoring him is tantamount to sticking one's head in the sand; journalists need to expose all important views, even repugnant ones, and hope that sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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Obama is correct about this: Many privacy experts argue that creating special backdoor keys, even if they're intended only for narrow use, is tantamount to creating a security flaw.
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To arrange a sausage sandwich outside of its time-honoured order would be tantamount to high treason, as the folks from the Melbourne Flames Rowing Club just found out.
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Anyway, how are Republican leaders going to collaborate with Clinton, when any cooperation with her is seen by a non-trivial portion of the base as tantamount to treason?
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"CCTV's broadcasts are tantamount to trial by media and they convict people without the court," said Mo Shaoping, a prominent Beijing lawyer known for defending sensitive human rights cases.
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" She later said that the bill was "tantamount to an illegal immigration 'stimulus' " and "de facto amnesty to any 'sponsor,' family member or 'potential sponsor' of an unaccompanied minor.
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But a business reason that is tantamount to an endorsement of practices forbidden by the Equal Pay Act - a factor based on historical market forces - should never be allowed.
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Reimbursing for the drugs but not the clinical services is tantamount to reimbursing for neither since providers cannot be expected to continue providing these services at a financial loss.
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Critics say it is tantamount to casting a wide net and then creating a hypothesis to support whatever cherry-picked findings seem interesting — the opposite of the scientific method.
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The bans have been championed by conservatives, many of them Christian, who say fetuses should have rights comparable to those of infants and view abortion as tantamount to murder.
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Tantamount is a website's authoritativeness, which Google determines using a number of signals, including how often other sites link to that site and how authoritative those linking sites are.
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If he makes incremental improvements to the existing border infrastructure — the stuff he said was tantamount to having no border at all — they may very well call his bluff.
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Mr. Bedoya said that these images are tantamount to being in a perpetual police lineup, as law enforcement agencies use them to check against the faces of suspected criminals.
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In two states, the informed consent materials say that life starts at conception, and three states say that getting an abortion is tantamount to ending a separate, unique life.
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In jurisdictions with such low declination rates, over 90 percent of arrests convert to criminal charges without much scrutiny; getting arrested is tantamount to being charged with a crime.
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"Today's ruling is tantamount to granting immunity to those with power and authority in an organization to use it for sexual abuse," Ms. Bae told reporters outside the courthouse.
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All of this is to say that pointing out legitimate concerns about the Trump administration's response is not tantamount to politicizing a viral outbreak, despite the administration's claims otherwise.
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Top officials from the B.J.P. told Delhi's voters that a vote for the opposing A.A.P. was tantamount to a vote for Pakistan, the Islamic republic and archrival next door.
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The development was a political boost for Democrats because it allowed them to argue that a GOP refusal to allow witness testimony would be tantamount to suppressing the truth.
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"Some people told me they would have had second thoughts, but they heard what he said about John Lewis, which was tantamount to spitting in our face," he said.
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But the plea agreement with the Justice Department left open a central issue — whether the killing of Mr. Scott had been tantamount to second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter.
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Among other things, Otzma Yehudit advocates annexing the occupied territories, expelling "enemies" — read that as Arabs — and seizing the Temple Mount, a move tantamount to declaring war on Islam.
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Critics have said that requiring people charged with crimes to pay cash to avoid incarceration while awaiting trial is tantamount to locking up innocent people because they are poor.
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Business interests have argued the practice is tantamount to writing laws behind closed doors and unfairly prevents them from vetting the research underpinning the EPA's often costly regulatory requirements.
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A weak-enough version would basically be tantamount to the state's existing carbon target of 80 percent reductions by 2050 — it would just require "offsetting" the other 20 percent.
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"Attacks like this can be tantamount to terrorism," Grenoble prosecutor Jean-Yves Coquillat told reporters, adding that the method used was similar to other recent attacks by far-left groups.
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All we're likely to get out of Conway is grandstanding exaggerations of how well Trump and crew are handling the problem, which is tantamount to it continuing to get worse.
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Apple argues the government's request is tantamount to asking for a "back door" that would allow people without a passcode to access protected data — something software companies have strongly resisted.
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Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said last week Lebanon was far from bankruptcy but failure to pass a realistic budget would be tantamount to a suicide operation against the economy.
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Shortly afterward, Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly resisted the order, saying designing such software was tantamount to creating a "backdoor" into the iPhone, putting the privacy of millions at risk.
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Exposing as false the idea that an artist channels a mystical capacity to turn non-art objects into art is tantamount to a magician revealing the mechanisms behind his illusions.
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She is forever controlled, helming her own hospitality empire, insofar as an empire can be tantamount to mediocre restaurants in West Hollywood (and the terrible, addictive reality show about them).
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Up in that monobrow section, you'll find a full array of infrared and light sensors, something tantamount to a Microsoft Kinect system, which facilitates the new Face ID authentication method.
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CNN legal analyst Steve Vladeck said that there was "no real argument that Mr. Trump's comments were tantamount to 'treason,'" despite an outpouring on social media calling his comments disloyal.
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Local sources said some of the worshippers were Sufis, whom groups such as Islamic State consider targets because they revere saints and shrines, which for Islamists is tantamount to idolatry.
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Mnangagwa, who did not provide any evidence of his accusations, said in a Facebook post that voting for 40-year-old Chamisa was tantamount to bringing back Mugabe in disguise.
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Franken even had the temerity to conflate wind and solar power incentives, tantamount to cash giveaways, with the deduction of legitimate business expenses by small, family-owned energy production companies.
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Fed officials have indicated that it will change its policy of reinvesting proceeds from its holdings, a move they say would be tantamount to a series of interest rate hikes.
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Officials have indicated that the Fed will change its policy of reinvesting proceeds from its holdings, a move they say would be tantamount to a series of interest rate hikes.
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First he launches or endorses a petition (in Corbyn-land, objecting to things is tantamount to changing them), which is duly signed by lots of people who already dislike Conservatives.
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If Trump asserts that US policy is that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, it would be tantamount to saying that Washington now recognizes Israel's sovereignty over the entire city.
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The opposition victory is tantamount to a public vote of no-confidence in Erdoğan and the AKP, who have ruled virtually uncontested since coming to power in the early 2000s.
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Ronald P. Fischetti, a lawyer for the company, Harco Construction, said such a campaign would be tantamount to admitting wrongdoing and estimated it could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Some brand-name drug companies have expressed alarm at the prospect that Teva will join their ranks, a move some see as tantamount to allowing a spy into the fold.
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That becomes a lot tougher with Washington's position "tantamount to saying that Washington now recognizes Israel's sovereignty over the entire city," veteran Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller has said.
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Their favored tactic of "flooding," pumping surplus crude into a soft market, is tantamount to war by economic means: the oil trade's equivalent of dropping the bomb on a rival.
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He's filed a federal lawsuit this time around, arguing he has privacy rights ... namely, because he was exhausted, intoxicated and medicated, and this is tantamount to releasing private medical records.
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The system "is tantamount to hijacking private property for the purpose of planting a Government-controlled loudspeaker in the home and on the person of every American," the lawsuit states.
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Then the White House made matters much worse by defending the decision on the grounds that Jews weren't the only ones who suffered, which critics called tantamount to Holocaust denial.
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Charlie Hebdo promoted Michel Houellebecq and his mischievous novel "Submission," and the novel seems to him tantamount to a Nazi tract, except with Muslims as the enemy, instead of Jews.
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Industry lobbyists and analysts have warned that imposing tariffs on cars would be tantamount to a disaster, with large parts of the Midwest auto industry hurt by such a move.
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The state's insurance regulators accused Trinity HealthShare, which runs ministry plans, and Aliera, which sells them, of misleading consumers and offering products tantamount to health insurance policies without state approval.
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Reports indicated the board was met by some protestors outside, as opponents to the board have argued giving an outside panel say over island affairs can be tantamount to colonialism.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso on Thursday ruled out the chance of the central bank's buying foreign bonds, saying such a step would be tantamount to currency intervention.
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"Resigning the plaintiffs to the petitioning administrative process is tantamount to a death sentence for those patients who need cannabis to live," said Michael Hiller, an attorney for the plaintiffs.
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In the remarks, reported by the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Trump suggests the whistleblowers' sources are tantamount to foreign agents — and implies that he would like to execute them.
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Many people, particularly younger workers in the advertising industry, lauded the account for exposing the misdeeds of powerful men, but others said it was tantamount to trial by social media.
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The NRA, by wrapping guns into the Trump package, makes any attempt to alter the status quo tantamount to surrender to the "resistance" -- a durable strategy for these tribal times.
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Harassment is a problem all over the internet, it's not specific to fandom, and why is a taste for a harmless coffee shop AU fanfic tantamount to abandoning difficult stories?
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" The response said that in an emergency situation, when adding more cars to the roads would worsen the pollution, driving a personal vehicle would be tantamount to committing "a forbidden act.
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This would be tantamount to forcing female soldiers to share private quarters with men — a situation that would be unacceptable to the majority of military women even if misconduct never occurred.
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To come forward about his behavior would be tantamount to outing him, a transgression that our culture — and especially a vast majority of the news media — still treats as near inviolable.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally delivered his criticisms to his Polish counterpart in a terse phone call Sunday, according to his office, saying Morawiecki's comments were tantamount to Holocaust denial.
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"Contributing to a fundraising kitty to support someone who attacked an officer is tantamount to being an accomplice to these grave acts of violence," said Marlene Schiappa, junior minister for equality.
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"As trauma therapists, we're confronted a lot with threats and punishments, with the scene's power and dependency relations, in which breaking the [code of] silence is tantamount to treason," she explains.
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This type of magick is so popular—and believed in so strongly—that there are even magicians who oppose it as they believe it is tantamount to sexually assaulting a person.
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They say rejecting the GOP nominee is tantamount to handing the election to the eventual Democratic nominee, widely expected to be Hillary Clinton, who had a strong night on Super Tuesday.
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It may stand to reason that, with the press poised to pounce on every new, racist Trump utterance, any objection to scrutiny of Clinton is tantamount to a plea for leniency.
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"While an investigation is open and active, demands for oversight are tantamount to interference, especially when the folks demanding the information are the most biased, irresponsible actors," Schumer said on Tuesday.
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Goop published an interview about "protecting yourself from wifi & cellphone toxicity" today with a nutritionist whose genre of "detoxification" diet advice has been called "tantamount to fraud" by an actual doctor.
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In January of 2015 it scored a slam-dunk when ISIS announced that attempting to make passage through the country on the way to Syria was 'tantamount to suicide' for extremists.
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Worse, however, is the signal these groups send to non-Muslims: that any criticism aimed at liberalizing aspects of the faith—even from Muslims themselves—is tantamount to bigotry and Islamophobia.
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Kelly said Monday that the offering of only "thoughts and prayers" is tantamount to complicity, framing gun violence as a preventable public-health scourge and lambasting reform opponents as moral cowards.
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These organizations claim that they have the constitutional right to lie and mislead patients in accordance with their religious beliefs, and that informing them about abortion is tantamount to endorsing it.
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It's the latest work from Dinesh D'Souza, the director of "2016: Obama's America," and is pitched firmly towards conservative moviegoers for whom a Hillary Clinton presidency is tantamount to the apocalypse.
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Or take a New York Times article on the 1976 Open controversy, which referred to Richards as "an admitted transsexual," as if being herself was tantamount to an admission of guilt.
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Supporters of abstinence-only curricula believe that to give teens too much information about sex itself—and how to have it safely—is tantamount to giving teens permission to do so.
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Such pressure, chilling the willingness of whistle-blowers to make (often lawbreaking) revelations that the media would otherwise be unable to obtain, is tantamount to an authoritarian intrusion on press freedom.
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But admitting that the United States is incapable of effectively adjudicating every territorial dispute or of thwarting every security threat in every part of the world is hardly tantamount to surrender.
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Republicans, including the two senators, have argued that the dossier is tantamount to political opposition research, and claimed that it might have been used by the F.B.I. to open its investigation.
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Bishop Anthimos of Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, has said the deal would be tantamount to "national suicide," and predicted that it would not secure the approval of the Holy Synod.
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Supporters of the Iran deal argue the proposed bill is tantamount to the United States unilaterally changing the terms of an international agreement, which would be a violation of the deal.
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In a primary field of 15 anti-immigrant, anti-abortion Republicans, Dr. Jackson is betting his personal connection with the president is enough to win the Republican nomination tantamount to election.
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The defamation lawsuit, filed by four plaintiffs to a federal court on Thursday, says Adams "recklessly" made the claims without proper evidence and that his actions were tantamount to voter intimidation.
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He said that Vindman was rightly disturbed by Trump's request for Ukraine to announce investigations into his political rivals, saying it was "tantamount to an illegal order," according to The Atlantic.
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As with Michael Heizer's "City," a metropolis of Land Art north of Las Vegas, Turrell's modified cinder cone is a feat of engineering tantamount to Mount Rushmore or the Hoover Dam.
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By the trial's conclusion in late 1984, Falwell's requested $45 million in damages were whittled down to a much more manageable $150,000, which for the wealthy Flynt was tantamount to pocket change.
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Denying due process on the basis of alienage is tantamount to denying the personhood of undocumented foreigners as the U.S. once did to slaves and does today to babies in the womb.
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It may very well be, but the fact is that reporting based on the word of an anonymous official without evidence, like NBC's story, is tantamount to astroturfing by the intelligence community.
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In the nation's capital, where the overwhelming majority of voters are registered Democrats, the primary is tantamount to a general election - unless an independent challenger emerges in time for the November contest.
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Meanwhile, the California Chamber of Commerce is trying to knock down cap and trade in court, arguing that it's tantamount to a tax and therefore requires two-thirds approval in the Assembly.
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He said police failed to investigate where the VX came from and that it would have been "tantamount to a declaration of war" if it was brought in by the North Koreans.
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Israeli critics and Palestinians have said the settlements legislation is tantamount to a land grab that would further distance prospects for a two-state solution ending the generations-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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At the same time the examination of economic and social factors behind street crime was considered by increasingly influential conservative politicians and pundits as tantamount to "making excuses" for or "coddling" criminals.
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A distressed debt exchange worth $1.7 billion between the company and its bondholders in June 2018 was labeled by Moody's as a "limited default," and called "tantamount to default" by S&P.
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"The decision, which is tantamount to killing the online news site, sends a chilling effect to media organizations in the country," the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines wrote in a statement.
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"You would think that this was tantamount to the moon landing!" one commenter wrote in response to a Canadian Broadcasting Corp solicitation for comments on what Canadians thought of the Washington visit.
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"Etiquette books and chocolate advertisers alike encouraged the view that an exchange of chocolates between a man and a woman was tantamount to a declaration of love," Earle explains in the Independent.
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Official disapproval of the kind she seeks is, for some, tantamount to censorship; in the overlap between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism, the line between legitimate and hateful opinion is contested.
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Some might be, but treating all migrants as criminal suspects by taking their DNA for a criminal database is tantamount to creating a surveillance database of one sect of the American population.
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Protecting the sanctity of the mission is tantamount to protecting and serving the national interest — which is the essence of governance and the most sacred and fundamental responsibility of the federal government.
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"If in fact it's confirmed — and there will be hearings on this — then it is tantamount to an unconstitutional coup," Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor and contributor to The Hill, told Hill.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts took a different tack on Monday when she announced the formation of an exploratory committee for her 2020 bid, a move that's tantamount to declaring one's candidacy.
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This supernatural film's line "I am your daughter" became a horror-movie meme tantamount to "I see dead people," and packed a similar punch to "The Sixth Sense" with a twist ending.
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He said raising concerns about government attacks on Wadi Barada was tantamount to defending the Nusra Front, the former name of the Levant Conquest Front, which is excluded from the cease-fire.
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You are free to dress as you like, sure, but never distant in your mind is the fact that how those clothes hug your body can be tantamount to a scarlet letter.
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Netanyahu already announced that with Trump's blessings Israel will quickly move to apply its law (tantamount to annexation) to the West Bank's Jordan Valley and all Jewish settlements in the occupied territory.
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All of this was under the banner of "anti-normalization," the idea that working with Israelis to improve Palestinians' water needs was tantamount to acceptance of maximalist Israeli claims on Palestinian territory.
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This will be the IMF's first visit since more than half a million Rohingya fled into Bangladesh after a military crackdown that the United Nations has said is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.
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The ships are so massive, each would be tantamount to the fourth-biggest hospital in the U.S. Cuomo on Wednesday warned that coronavirus cases threaten to overwhelm the state's hospital bed capacity.
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In a city where streets are clogged with traffic and finding a parking space is tantamount to a game of motorized musical chairs, the abuse of parking privileges has long angered residents.
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"A demonstrably incorrect judicial decision, by contrast, is tantamount to making law, and adhering to it both disregards the supremacy of the Constitution and perpetuates a usurpation of the legislative power," Thomas wrote.
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To immigration hawks, if the federal government has the opportunity to get local help in catching unauthorized immigrants, and doesn't take that opportunity, it's tantamount to keeping police officers from enforcing the law.
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There's no need to recapitulate every one of these arguments, but suffice it to say that the artist projected his sexual desires onto his Black subjects in a manner tantamount to fetishized racism.
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It said the attorney general's "highly irregular statement ... supported by the two chiefs of the security forces" was "tantamount to the effective sidelining of the judiciary and in direct contravention of the constitution".
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The call was notable for its timing, coming a day after Erdogan described a U.S. prosecutor's indictment against Turkey's former economy minister as being politically motivated and tantamount to an attack on Ankara.
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Peter explains that he believes that engagement is tantamount to marriage, but before they can really get into it, a conveniently timed adorable child appears and leads them away to stomp grapes barefoot.
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To some traditionalists, such recklessness is tantamount to changing the Declaration of Independence, in other words fiddling about with a set of words which, once delivered, was meant to stand for all time.
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And they say that they're not concerned about what Trump has suggested is tantamount to "disenfranchis[ing]" his supporters, pointing out that the party's rules require a candidate to get to 1,237 delegates.
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This was tantamount to an American green light for the Indian air strikes that followed, which were the first by either country since the 1971 war that led to the division of Pakistan.
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The other side: Republicans have not put forth substantive alternative ideas, instead lambasting the proposal as a socialist takeover attempt, with one GOP lawmaker going so far to say it's tantamount to genocide.
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But moving on with their lives isn't tantamount to burying the events with silence, and respecting their privacy is possible without giving an accused abuser the headlining role in a major film franchise.
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One of Duterte's most outspoken detractors is Senator Leila de Lima, who branded the president a "sociopathic serial killer" and declared that the extrajudicial killings were tantamount to a war on the poor.
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" Recently addiction expert and Clinical Director at Charter Harley Street Mandy Saligari told the same BBC Panorama documentary that giving a child a smartphone is "tantamount to giving them a gram of cocaine.
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Refusal to acknowledge that it's dirty, by claiming that all speech is the same, regardless of who's speaking and with what intent, is tantamount to declaring open season on marginalized groups and individuals.
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Though the lens, which attempted to put the late singer's visage and dreadlocks onto users' faces, was sanctioned by the Bob Marley Estate, many saw the lens as disrespectful and tantamount to blackface.
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In 295 the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe deferred a ruling on whether such "Outright Monetary Transactions"—which have not yet been invoked—are tantamount to state financing, and thus outside the ECB's mandate.
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Fitch Ratings downgraded roughly $80 billion of bonds to speculative grade - or "junk" status - with a second downgrade seen coming soon from Moody's, an action tantamount to loss of an investment grade rating.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday that calls to replace or modify statues of English colonialists, including explorer Captain James Cook, were tantamount to a "Stalinist" rewrite of history.
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Prosecutors allege that Officer Goodson failed to buckle Mr. Gray's seatbelt or call for medical attention, which they say could have saved his life; to them, those omissions were tantamount to a crime.
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Apple — backed vociferously by Silicon Valley at large — argues that creating such software is tantamount to putting a "backdoor" in all of its products that malicious hackers would then be able to exploit.
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While it might not be tantamount to Dylan going electric or Nirvana getting into bed with Geffen, it initially seems like an odd move for people who've steadfastly self-released their own material.
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The Golden Cow was unrecoverable by the NU authorities within these precincts, since an armed intrusion from official NU forces would have been tantamount to an act of war against a foreign country.
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Trump said he was ready to take the "heat" to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill, perhaps forgetting that his own supporters see such a step as tantamount to amnesty for undocumented migrants.
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Kremlin critic and opposition politician Alexei Navalny said he believed Putin was now set to become president for life, while Navalny's ally, Ivan Zhdanov, decried the move as tantamount to a constitutional coup.
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The idea that fires were, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote in a memorandum to President Nixon in 1970, a "leading indicator" of a neighborhood's "social pathology" is portrayed as tantamount to victim blaming.
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With so many lopsidedly Democratic and Republican districts — Democrats outnumber Republicans almost 20-to-1 in Mr. Farrell's seat, for instance — being handed the nomination is often tantamount to being put in office.
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Hysterical progressives have been brainwashed to believe that speech that they don't like is hate speech, that hate speech is tantamount to violence, and therefore violence to prevent such hateful speech is justifiable.
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Playing without it is tantamount to being a second-class citizen in this era, and the sport can hope that as the technology matures, the price of installation per court will also drop.
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Moreover, because the funding for basic civic services in the US traditionally depends on local public contributions, the government-as-business model is often tantamount to blocking the distribution of resources between communities.
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Their lawyer, Jude Josue Sabio, said both men's statements were tantamount to accusations of "crimes against humanity" and they would take their case to the International Criminal Court in The Hague by April.
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For those on the streets — who have lost their jobs, have suffered from drug addiction, mental illness or disabilities — crackdowns on homeless camps are seen as tantamount to punishing people for being poor.
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Agnifilo said Raniere had unique relationships with all of the women who testified at his trial, describing Lauren Salzman's testimony as tantamount to her breaking up with Raniere in front of the jury.
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Stranded at sea Every year, thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar, where they suffer hardship and oppression in conditions that have been found tantamount to genocide by the Yale Law School Human Rights Clinic.
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Those in support of the bill feel this will prevent wrongful convictions and false accusations, while those in opposition feel it's tantamount to giving pedophiles and rapists a get out of jail free card.
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"This is, after all, tantamount to a demand that the DPRK should give up its self-defensive right," he said, using the initials of North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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They argue that firing someone for being attracted to people of the same gender -- or for identifying with a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth -- is tantamount to sex stereotyping.
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Just as the First Amendment allows Phillips to speak freely and practice his faith, they say, it also protects him from being forced to create a "message" that's tantamount to "participating" in the wedding.
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A flood of early-abortion laws in conservative states, some tantamount to total bans, have prompted other, socially liberal, states to make it easier to have an abortion at the other end of pregnancy.
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Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress, against "outrageous, racist" attacks, while insisting again that criticism of "a right wing government in Israel" is not tantamount to anti-Semitism.
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The thinking is that the North Koreans view the raising of human rights as tantamount to advocating regime change and that bringing it up would only make it harder to resolve the weapons program.
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Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, suggested on "Fox News Sunday" that the DNC paying a law firm for so-called opposition research connected to the dossier was tantamount to money laundering.
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It's a tough line to toe because, while even the most innocuous statement could potentially be used in a lawsuit down the line, saying nothing at all is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
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This case really boils down to whether funding a religious school's playground is tantamount to impermissibly funding religion, or is, instead, the kind of neutral state program from which religious groups can't be excluded.
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He said that he has a series of pages on Facebook, such as One Million Gamers, which combined have several million likes so losing them was tantamount to losing his main source of income.
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One problem is that Freed can't risk pushing the trilogy's S&M scenes any further without becoming seriously kinky, subversive or violent: To actually turn anyone on would be tantamount to a turn-off.
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The trademark office had argued that granting trademark registration was tantamount to the government actually speaking -- and thus it should not have to be forced to speak in a way that it disapproves of.
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A white, cis male on Soloway's famously diverse set, Frohna has been capturing the female gaze for four seasons—noteworthy because in Soloway's circles, female and trans crew are generally tantamount to the operation.
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While not referring to "human rights" per se, condemning the killing of a foreign journalist is tantamount to the strongest human rights foreign policy the U.S. government has exhibited toward Saudi Arabia in decades.
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The lawsuit, and others like it, has implications for the treatment of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have found refuge in the United States, and for whom deportation can be tantamount to death.
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Trump and his white supremacist cohorts believe the reverence some Americans have for these statues is simply respect for history, and that tearing them down is tantamount to ripping pages out of a textbook.
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But opposition lawmakers said the paper was tantamount to admitting defeat by a government which lost its authority at an ill-judged election two months ago by watering down one of its "red lines".
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Security experts and privacy advocates insist that to provide any guaranteed access for law enforcement is tantamount to a "back door" that will undermine the safety and privacy of everyday users of Apple's devices.
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Ibarra argued in the complaint that by the time that second pay period rolls around it's tantamount to credit, because it effectively has to be paid back by hours the employee hasn't worked yet.
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A series of strikes that some say look like a declaration of warTop political and military leaders in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon denounced the Israeli strikes, calling them tantamount to a declaration of war.
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As of Thursday, five French mayors had banned the burkini, calling it, variously, a threat to public order, hygiene, water safety and morality, tantamount to a new weapon of war against the French republic.
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" When host John Berman pressed that only one of the candidates has been accused of being a "child molester," Moore doubled down that voters in Alabama view partial-birth abortion as tantamount to "murder.
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Georges Plassat's 383 million euro ($15.1 million) payout was tantamount to "thuggish behavior" and did not tally with the state in which he left Europe's biggest retailer, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said on Sunday.
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Wu Qiang, an independent Beijing-based political commentator, said Xi overturning Deng's political legacy was, in the minds of some Chinese, tantamount to shaking the political foundation the state-society compact was built upon.
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Admitting the exchange rate is undervalued is tantamount to saying the economic system isn't working as it's supposed to work in conventional economic theory—that there's no hope the trade balance will fix itself.
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Clinton not to use phrases like "radical Islamic terrorism" — which would surely antagonize Muslims — was tantamount to minimizing or ignoring tough truths about the enemy facing the United States and much of the West.
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President Nicos Anastasiades of Cyprus suggested this week that allowing Turkey to resume union membership talks was tantamount to sacrificing his nation's interests for the short-term gain of bigger member states like Germany.
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Danielle Nierenberg, the president and co-founder of the food safety think tank called Food Tank, told MUNCHIES she believes the EPA's decision is tantamount to a violation of the human rights of Americans.
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With Islam a fundamental part of the Uyghur identity, so-called counter-terrorism campaigns which have cracked down hard on Muslim practices and increasingly criminalized Islam, are tantamount to the criminalization of being Uyghur.
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Even if you would like to become superintelligent, knowingly trading away one or more of your essential properties would be tantamount to suicide — that is, to your intentionally causing yourself to cease to exist.
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In fact, it's become tantamount to the U.S. tech industry at large — just as Manhattan's Tin Pan Alley came to mean the U.S. popular music industry of the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
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Directors said that Mr. Gordon, among others, was opposed, arguing that in the midst of a media frenzy, suspending Mr. Moonves was tantamount to finding him guilty, especially because of the independent directors' statement.
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Demonstrators are picketing school board meetings, arguments are erupting on social media about whether religious accommodation is tantamount to special treatment, and there is a petition drive to abolish prayer in the public schools.
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President Donald Trump said Thursday he would consider linking capital gains taxes to inflation, repeating an idea previously floated by his administration that some see as tantamount to a tax cut for the rich.
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Even less likely is the possibility that China will entertain one of their central demands, universal suffrage, which to the Communist rulers is tantamount to being asked to surrender Hong Kong to the West.
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Trump has offered conflicting public statements about why he fired Comey; critics say he did it an effort to end the investigation into his campaign, which some believe is tantamount to obstruction of justice.
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Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment, including members of this body, full well understand that a presidential impeachment is tantamount to domestic war, albeit thankfully protected by our beloved First Amendment.
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These priorities will not change until we understand that taxation is not tantamount to setting our money on fire, but rather finances important mutual investment and insurance programs that can drive substantial economic growth.
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To tie politicians to the violent campaigns they had planned far from the scenes, judges came up with the doctrine of "joint criminal enterprise," tantamount to the notion of conspiracy used against organized crime.
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"This outcome is tantamount to a Democrat winning (or tying) a statewide race in Louisiana or Kansas or Montana, which also voted for Trump by 20 points," FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver said on Twitter Monday night.
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In 2015 I wrote that the way Sony has treated Kesha in the fallout of her accusations against Dr. Luke is tantamount to slut shaming, and the court has done little to dispel that attitude.
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Perhaps that really is what happens, but this is tantamount to time travel—on an oddly limited basis, involving the ability to determine the nature of the bit but denying any glimpse of the future.
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"By signing HB 214 into law, Governor Abbott has told women and parents they must pay extra for what is tantamount to 'rape insurance,'" Democratic Representative Chris Turner, who opposed the bill, said on Tuesday.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been clear that discrimination against transgender people is tantamount to sex discrimination, but that relates only to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which deals with employment discrimination.
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His attorneys repeatedly challenged the conditions of his confinement, arguing that the extreme solitary — Chapo was alone in a cell for up to 23 hours per day, with no outdoor exercise — was tantamount to torture.
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" While that might have been enough to spark an apology, Woods instead doubled down on his critiques on Wednesday — explaining that "using one's child as a social justice propaganda doll is tantamount to child abuse.
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Moody's described the clause as "tantamount to a cross acceleration provision" in January, leading it to include the PIK in its debt calculation for the first time and cut Agrokor's rating one notch to B3.
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Democrats in America assail most proposals to restrain the rising costs of public pensions or health care as tantamount to throwing grannies off a cliff; in Australia it was the left that pioneered such policies.
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But even with all that sharing, privacy is of tantamount importance to users who don't want their health issues aired publicly, or don't want doctors who they may not have reviewed favorably to seek revenge.
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According to the plaintiffs, facilitating sale of the gun to civilians – who lack the necessary training and rules – is a form of negligent entrustment tantamount to handing the gun to a visibly high-risk individual.
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The central bank tried to soothe jitters by saying the interbank rate increase did not point to any change in its monetary policies and was not tantamount to a hike in its benchmark policy rate.
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While the selfie lens isn't quite the same as putting black paint on you face, it's tantamount to putting on a Bob Marley mask to celebrate getting high, effectively reducing Marley's impact to a stereotype.
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From the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to black women, to kneeling NFL players, and anyone in between, the president has argued that their criticism is tantamount to openly hating America and its ideals.
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This is true, but tantamount to an admission of guilt: politicians in some safely Democratic districts in the north have not been above fiddling with election rules and redrawing district boundaries to protect incumbents either.
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Is it that these figures truly turn away from society, eschewing it for a "purer" form of life and practice, or is their disappearance more tantamount to an alternative career move, an immortalization in obscurity?
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Arabiya news channel and some local sources said some of the worshippers were Sufis, whom groups such as Islamic State consider targets because they revere saints and shrines, which for Islamists is tantamount to idolatry.
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"KALPA leadership and its membership should take note that taking part in any strike at KQ (Kenya Airways) during this very delicate stage in its recovery is tantamount to economic and national sabotage," Macharia said.
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Environmentally conscious and thrifty residents say they should have the right to catch as much rain as they please, while agricultural interests argue that doing so is tantamount to stealing water from its rightful owners.
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Borrowing or adapting may not always be tantamount to plagiarism, but several Trump advisers, who also insisted on anonymity, said that after the furor over Ms. Trump's remarks, the campaign cannot allow a similar blowup.
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"What happened was tantamount to blackmail, with the U.S. holding the world hostage and trying to overturn nearly 40 years of consensus on the best way to protect infant and young child health," she said.
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"So-called conversion therapy is a debunked practice that's tantamount to child abuse and is proven to have dangerous consequences for its victims," the Human Rights Campaign said in a statement celebrating the app's removal.
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For me, that includes pejorative terms including slurs of all kinds, as well as various historical and public figures whose inclusion could be seen as tantamount to acceptance or endorsement of their ideas or actions.
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Sophie Mathisen, an Australian feminist filmmaker, said the verdict was "tantamount to a gag order to any person in Australia experiencing sexual harassment in saying you will not be believed, most likely you'll be punished."
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Mr. Stivers said recent tweets and remarks by Mr. King, including an endorsement for a Toronto mayoral candidate who had previously recited the 14-word manifesto used by neo-Nazis, were tantamount to hate speech.
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As the country and the world head into this confusing new era, news organizations are in a position to make a newly urgent pitch: Buying a subscription is tantamount to supporting the pillars of democracy.
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Recall that failure to be forthright, lying to an FBI agent, is a violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and is tantamount to perjury -- bringing with it a sentencing exposure of five years in prison.
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If the administration suggested that the military aid would come if Ukraine's government investigated the younger Mr Biden—if you give us the dirt we give you the guns—that would be tantamount to extortion.
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The EPA's stay "is essentially an order delaying the rule's effective date, and this court has held that such orders are tantamount to amending or revoking a rule," Judges David Tatel and Robert Wilkins wrote.
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Sanders's win here energized supporters after Clinton eked out a slight victory in Iowa, though some Clinton supporters suggested that a win by Sanders' here was tantamount to a win by a home-state senator.
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However, she alleges, Mater Dei staffers would often minimize the degree to which Jojuan was struggling academically, and even went so far as to tell her that benching him would be tantamount to a forfeit.
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"Both fake interviews procured under conditions tantamount to torture were broadcast and rebroadcast, by both CCTV and its international arm CGTN, upon orders from the Chinese state and without my consent," Humphrey wrote in his complaint.
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Before giving birth, I had been taught — by doctors, mom blogs, relatives, and blissful celebrity mom Instagrams — that breast was best, and that giving my child formula was tantamount to force-feeding him cigarettes and McFlurries.
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It ultimately boils down to whether we, as a society, are willing to accept a world in which a woman's physical ability to grow and deliver a child is tantamount to an imperative to do so.
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And its removal is tantamount to the removal of that power, a public parade of dominance by members of the Republican party and a refusal to address the identity politics that come along with the work.
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The most vitriolic on the left suggest that any cultural swapping is tantamount to acts of visual racism; that using symbols without permission is always bad, and those that do it should be condemned without mercy.
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The Trump camp is also suggesting that these emails probably contain classified information, that they could have been compromised, and that having your own email server while acting as Secretary of State is tantamount to treason.
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He hardened this critique after returning to America from a spell in Hong Kong; China, whose gaming of WTO rules Mr Bannon considers tantamount to an "economic war" against America, remains at the heart of it.
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Watching them eat is tantamount to watching paint dry, which is why Canadian photographer R. Jeanette Martin wisely set her phone to record in timelapse mode when she encountered a particularly hungry mollusk in her garden.
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Whether Schärer intended to establish an explicit relationship between the two bodies of work isn't clear, but his long and concurrent devotion to the themes was tantamount to an obsession with the image of the feminine.
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Culture is frequently cited by Greek and Italian officials as an implied reproach to uncouth northerners obsessed with rules: kicking either state out of the euro zone would be tantamount to Europe ripping out its heart.
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But the prosecuting attorneys suggested in an earlier filing that Cohen's proposal for the appointment of a separate judge called a special master to review the material was tantamount to a slow-walk in the case.
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The state's process is so prolonged, "with only the remote possibility of death," that it is tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment, a federal judge wrote in a 2014 ruling, calling the system dysfunctional and arbitrary.
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The group said that Trump's pardon of Michael Behenna for his 2009 conviction of murdering an unarmed Iraqi man whom he had accused of being involved in an explosive attack was tantamount to endorsing war crimes.
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He added that "there is still a lot to play for," including the possibility that Britain might decide not to quit after all, or opt for a close association agreement that would be tantamount to staying.
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He originally and mistakenly said that Flynn had worked as an unregistered agent for the Turkish government during his brief tenure at the White House, saying such behavior was arguably tantamount to selling his country out.
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The latest U.N. sanctions against North Korea are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade against it, North Korea's foreign ministry said on Sunday, threatening to punish those who supported the measure.
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The president of South Africa is elected by Parliament, which is dominated by the A.N.C., so a withdrawal of support by the A.N.C. national executive committee would be tantamount to a demand that Mr. Zuma resign.
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When fat runs low, the body can use some of the protein you have stored in your muscles and organs, which is obviously not ideal; it's tantamount to burning your floorboards to keep your house warm.
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The magic of this approach is that it is tantamount to a peak period surcharge but framed as an off-peak discount — no one (other than economists) likes peak period surcharges, but everyone loves a discount.
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Mr. Hynes won his fifth term in his first close race, finishing on top in the Democratic primary — which in heavily Democratic Brooklyn was usually tantamount to election to the office — by just four percentage points.
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Now the F.M.L.N., which has 19803 seats in the 84-member Legislative Assembly, is supporting legislation by Arena, which has 37 seats, that is tantamount to a de facto amnesty for crimes committed during the war.
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In fact, it's become tantamount to the U.S. tech industry at large — just as Tin Pan Alley in Manhattan came to stand for the U.S. popular music industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Instead, such accusations are now tantamount to 'crying wolf' and have the opposite of their intended effect — whites are subsequently more likely to express racially conservative policy preferences or to condone the target of the accusation.
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Washington and Seoul have rejected the idea out of hand, calling it tantamount to giving up legitimate defense exercises as a reward for halting the North's weapons program, which is already banned by the United Nations.
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"Iran's decision against the advice of its own doctors to send Baquer Namazi back to Evin Prison is a shocking development and is tantamount to a death sentence that will be imposed quickly," Mr. Genser said.
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It is similar to the Michigan case, which argues that the state's regulations — including a requirement that ammunition be stored separately from unloaded weapons — are tantamount to an unconstitutional ban on gun ownership for foster parents.
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Which, as Warren now repeated, was tantamount to calling her a liar on national TV. Will this become the political equivalent of mutually assured destruction as Warren's sisterhood of "she persisted" collides with the Bernie Bros?
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But on Monday afternoon, the headquarters' Chairman's Parlor showcased the less tidy side of the party's total grip on power: The fiercest attacks now come during the Republican primary, which is tantamount to the general election.
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Winning the Democratic primary was normally tantamount to winning the office in the overwhelmingly Democratic city, but the influential county Democratic organization supported the white Republican candidate in the general election, which Mr. Hatcher narrowly won.
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"Its recent measures are, in effect, tantamount to the enemies' moves to bring down the social system in the DPRK," the commentary said, using the acronym for North Korea's official name, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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" Pehme recalled how Stone told him that "his value as a political operative is his gift in talking to the media and that depriving him of that ability is tantamount to denying him food and air.
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Though still not the final peace deal, Colombians greeted Wednesday's announcement that the government and the country's biggest rebel group have agreed a "definitive ceasefire" as tantamount to the end of the region's longest-running conflict.
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We feel that reviewing, fact-checking and copy-editing are tantamount to unnecessary limitations of free speech, and that this position is a mark of journalistic integrity in a time when that is of crucial importance.
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Veli Agbaba, deputy leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), wrote on Twitter that the dismissals were tantamount to fascism and a blow against democracy, while Istanbul's CHP mayor Ekrem Imamoglu also slammed the move.
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NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch insists that calls to ban AR-229 assault rifles — the rifle with the largest female ownership — were tantamount to a "war on women" and should be considered a sexist effort to disarm them.
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Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said earlier this month that Lebanon was far from bankruptcy but failure to pass a "realistic" budget that brings down the deficit would be tantamount to a "suicide operation" against the economy.
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In other words, if a court limits speech by regulating the publication of a sex tape, that's not tantamount to suppressing debate on the Senate floor about, say, the citizenship rights of persons born in U.S. territories.
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Mr. Aquino, who was barred by term limits from seeking re-election, has voiced alarm about the prospect of a Duterte presidency, saying it was tantamount to a return to the dictatorship of the Ferdinand Marcos years.
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"If you can legitimately threaten to take someone's property away from them involuntarily, then just having that power alone is tantamount to use of that power in my opinion, because you've got a unilateral negotiation," Beard said.
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In the first year after the United States exited the deal, Iran remained and adhered to its commitments despite aggressive American steps to ensure that Iran would not see any of the benefits, tantamount to economic war.
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"If privacy is a human right ... then we contend that Facebook's poor stewardship of user data is tantamount to a human rights violation," Christine Jantz, an official with Facebook investor Northstar Asset Management, said during the meeting.
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His original six-year sentence - the judge in the case said his corruption offences were tantamount to "treason" - was cut to 18 months on appeal, but another month was later tagged on over obstruction of justice charges.
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Hooking off the jab is the sign of a smart fighter, hooking to the body off the jab is a level up from that, and adding the low kick on the end is tantamount to striking pornography.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Belgian rider Tim Wellens described the use of anti-asthma inhalers as tantamount to cheating, after four-times Tour de France champion Chris Froome failed a test for Salbutamol during last year's Tour of Spain.
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Through a quality of vision that was tantamount to cruelty, he showed the West how many of its assumptions were a celebration of its safety, while forcing us in the East to look hard at our places.
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Having the G7 at Doral would be tantamount to "a free, giant international promotion" for Trump's business, said Jordan Libowitz, the communications director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), in an interview with Vox.
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For Ms. Malone and others reeling from a news cycle that feels like constant crisis mode, flinging money at political and social causes as a knee-jerk response to the headlines has become tantamount to self-care.
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But Mr. Weinstein's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, argued Mr. Weinstein already could have been sentenced to 25 years under a rape charge in the previous indictment, which, for a 66-year-old, is tantamount to a life sentence.
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Rob Bishop, the top Republican on the Natural Resources Committee, amped up the rhetoric again at a press conference, saying the components of the Green New Deal are "tantamount to genocide" for rural residents in the country.
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In our era of hyper-partisanship, to be caught engaging in any of these activities with registered members of the other party, let alone politicians of the opposing party, can be viewed as tantamount to political suicide.
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For a man who chooses his words carefully, Mr. McConnell's saying that Judge Gorsuch will be "confirmed on Friday" is tantamount to saying that he intends to go nuclear if Democrats block the confirmation on the floor.
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"The accused confessed to all crimes he had committed (...) and gathered and offered information on its party, state and military affairs to the south Korean puppet regime, which are tantamount to state subversive plots and espionage," it said.
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That alone is a tall order, but to push through a deal that ignores Middle East allies would be tantamount to Obama's vacillation on chemical weapons, when he pledged to retaliate if Syria deployed such weapons, then didn't.
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Celebrities of all stripes have always enjoyed elevated status, visibility, and mass adoration to some extent or another, but as the culture ever trends toward the projection and worship of images, this status has become tantamount to pantheism.
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Declaring a policy of not deporting anyone in the US illegally except for criminals "is tantamount to a public declaration (repeated and amplified by smugglers in Central America) that our borders are effectively open to all," he wrote.
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"There is no excuse for concealing any part of this report along with its findings and evidence – it would be tantamount to a cover-up," said Dem Sen Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, a member of the Judiciary Committee.
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Huang Yanming, a pro-democracy activist in south-west China, argues that the wars were more about the freedom to trade than a struggle over opium—calling them "Opium Wars", he says, is tantamount to "abandoning historical truth".
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For one thing, it was difficult for them to argue that the "rule of law" conditions meant they were in danger of losing out, because that would be tantamount to admitting that they were indeed violating eu norms.
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Inside North Korea: High-tech science center lauds nuclear advances 'Declaration of war' No hostilities have been reported as a result of the current broadcasts, which North Korea has previously described as tantamount to a declaration of war.
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"Surrendering al-Waer to the Assad regime will be tantamount to subjecting most of the civilians there to imprisonment, torture and death," said a statement from the Armed Revolutionary Groups in al-Waer, a collection of rebel groups.
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"Tantamount to treason," said one of the members of George W. Bush's national security team, as he followed George Will, Brent Scowcroft, Max Boot, and the other members of the GOP's shrunken national security wing out the door.
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To be a realist in an age of abstraction—which sought the pure "essence" of painting and eschewed references to the outside world—was tantamount to professional suicide, at least among the institutions and collectors of her day.
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Ocasio-Cortez, to be clear, didn't win her primary (in her district, tantamount to the general election) because she's some kind of wild radical—she's not determined to seize the means of production or overthrow the capitalist state.
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Hours earlier, she told a public gathering at a nearby hotel on Thursday night that Mnangagwa and his allies were plotting a power grab that was tantamount to a coup, according to an audio recording of her speech.
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In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Johnson wrote that decriminalizing border crossing would be "tantamount to a public declaration (repeated and amplified by smugglers in Central America) that our borders are effectively open to all."
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India has also proposed measures to limit the spread of misinformation on social media platforms, which has given rise to questions about whether the laws are tantamount to censorship of speech that the ruling power might find offensive.
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Now, you tell me, counting the loss over the past six decades of literally "tens of millions" of black lives because of the embrace of an ideology, is this not tantamount to a Pearl Harbor or 9/85033?
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"Resigning automatically because of a weekly magazine report on a matter that is strongly suspicious of illegality is, in a sense, tantamount to admitting it," said Tetsuro Fukuyama, secretary general of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
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"So a Pew Research Center poll came out and found that a majority of Democrats thought that to be opposed to legal immigration was tantamount or was driven by animus or racism towards people of color," she said.
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Democrats who argue that Trump has already behaved in a manner tantamount to obstructing justice meanwhile jumped on Trump's comment in an NBC interview in May that he was thinking of the Russia probe when he fired Comey.
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Weeks before the inter-Korean summit, North Korean media warned South Korean officials to "behave with discretion", saying that criticizing the North's rights record was tantamount to "throwing a stone to the thin ice-like North-South relations".
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To have a player on your team fail when they weren't supposed to—especially if they're a player you know to be capable of more—is something emotionally tantamount to a betrayal, even though in reality it isn't.
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With much respect to Ms. Schulman, who ably served as The Nation's poetry editor for 35 years, we hardly see how this is tantamount to abandoning The Nation's storied tradition of provoking readers and cherishing a free press.
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He then made the broad point to the central of their case: the House managers had not alleged a statutory crime, only abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, which he called "infinitely malleable" and tantamount to maladministration.
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The company believes its Vayyar monitors will be a popular alternative to "nanny cams" and other video-based security cameras, and could be used by hospitals, hotels and senior communities where privacy is tantamount — but so is security.
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The Lebanese economy is saddled with one the heaviest public debt burdens in the world, and Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said this week that failure to pass a "realistic" budget would be tantamount to a "suicide operation".
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"For many people who live in the West but also in rural and urban areas -- the ideas behind the Green New Deal are tantamount to genocide -- that may be an overstatement but not by a whole lot," Rep.
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The group is also suing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in federal court, arguing that admissions officials closely monitor the racial makeup of an incoming class, which SFFA has said is tantamount to racial balancing.
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In the decision, the court ruled that detaining someone in such a way was tantamount to arresting them, and that state law "provides no authority" under common or statutory law for court officers to make such an arrest.
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Conservative pundits have claimed absentee voters are likely to be manipulated by Democratic groups into voting blue, and in 2018 Donald Trump insinuated that the slow counting of mailed ballots in Florida was tantamount to a rigged election.
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But if it promotes American interests at the cost of popular will — as the United States did in supporting coups in Iran in 1953 and Chile in 1973 — then it is tantamount to participating in an illegitimate coup.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China called on Monday for all countries to make constructive efforts to ease tension after North Korea said the latest U.N. sanctions against it are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade.
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After all, three-fifths of Hong Kongers consistently vote (when given the chance) for candidates who want greater democracy—an aspiration that China sometimes construes as tantamount to wanting independence and therefore a dangerous violation of the red line.
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These days, the things that are apparently tantamount to making a festival good are so tepid that festival culture has now mutated in a way that doesn't feel strange or different, morphing into a concept we don't yet understand.
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" Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, said such an arrangement is tantamount to "a mandatory situation where we're giving the airlines our biometric data — and other commercial partners — and we don't even know who they are.
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There was also growing discontent that Osborne's fixation of achieving a budget surplus with more extensive cuts and tax rises could be tantamount to a pyrrhic victory for the U.K. economy in the long run, harming long-term investment.
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Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's disastrous press briefing on Thursday was a prime example of how the White House is struggling to explain President Donald Trump's efforts in Ukraine in a way that isn't tantamount to a confession.
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Another is the power to impose sanctions that exclude foreign actors and entities from the American financial system—which given the dollar's role as a reserve currency is tantamount to banishment from the world of international finance and business.
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MOSCOW, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Russia is outraged by the threatening tone of the latest U.S. statement on Syria viewing it as tantamount to supporting terrorism, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday according to Russian news agencies.
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Peter Parker's development as a superhero is tied intimately to his suit's ability to shoot web, T'Challa's costume creates explosions from the power it consumes, Dr. Strange's cape literally harasses him, and Thor's hammer is tantamount to his identity.
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He said the funds rate could end up printing outside the 2% to 2.25% range where the Fed targets the benchmark, and there likely would be stresses in the international overnight markets that could be tantamount to another hike.
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If the court so rules, it will be tantamount to the Egyptian government shutting down not only the organizations named in the case, but all nonstate institutions that are independent of the security agencies and criticize violations of rights.
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BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - The latest U.N. sanctions against North Korea are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade against it, North Korea's foreign ministry said on Sunday, threatening to punish those who supported the measure.
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Mr. McConnell's critics have taken a more cynical view, though, arguing that he is simply afraid of stirring the ire of President Trump, who views talk of Russia's election interference as tantamount to questioning the legitimacy of his election.
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The imposition of citizenship is tantamount to forcing people to swear allegiance to a power they may consider hostile, which violates international law, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement.
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Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight, said in a statement that the records released Friday offer more damning evidence in the impeachment inquiry and called the administration's continued efforts to blockade the investigation tantamount to obstruction of justice.
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On Friday evening, Republican senators voted in near lock step to block testimony from any new witnesses or the production of any new documents, a vote that was tantamount to an acquittal of the impeachment charges against President Trump.
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So, in a nutshell, Trump's whiplash-inducing tweet was tantamount to acknowledging some of his allies are admitting there was quid pro quo, asserting this admission is no big deal, and then insisting that no wrongdoing happened after all.
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Less than 24 hours earlier, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Maryland) had flatly rejected the idea that the vote was tantamount to an impeachment inquiry before having to walk that back via a remarkable bit of word salad-ry.
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This is the largest exhibition yet devoted to Segers, an under-known Dutch master whose printmaking innovations, talent for contrasting textures and predilection for rendering each sheet a unique artwork resulted in images that are tantamount to small paintings.
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The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to impose new sanctions on North Korea on Friday in response to its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test, a move North Korea called an act of war, tantamount to a complete economic blockade.
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The lower court will now have to answer the bigger -- and far more important -- question of whether federal law and not just Executive Branch interpretations of it treat discrimination on the basis of gender identity as tantamount to sex discrimination.
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Netflix pulled out of the prestigious 2018 Cannes Film Festival (tantamount to a boycott) earlier this year after the festival announced all competitors must undergo theatrical releases in France, which Netflix understandably took as an attack on its business model.
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The court also rejected Stutzman's argument that forcing her to create floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding would violate her free speech rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and would be tantamount to endorsing same-sex marriage.
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And while many might feel that continuing to proliferate it on the internet is tantamount to flogging a dead ape, one thing remains true: As long as Harambe the meme survives, so will the memory of Harambe the fallen gorilla.
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I worried that not speaking up would be inaction that I would regret later in life, after his dangerous ideas had proliferated further, and that performing as planned would be tantamount to helping him build respectability and mainstreaming his ideas.
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However, more than any other Republican candidate, he shows little interest in spending cuts — he has taken cutbacks to entitlements off the table — and favors allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which most conservatives see as tantamount to federal price controls.
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It was tantamount to bringing back the mainframe with dumb terminals, but instead of a costly mainframe, you had a pool of resources available from an off-the-shelf PC network, which presumably would be much cheaper and easier to operate.
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But the administration's draft proposal argues that California cannot use this waiver to set standards on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles because that would be tantamount to regulating fuel economy, which states are forbidden from doing under a 1975 law.
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Yildirim's trip follows Turkish first lady Emine Erdogan's visit in September to the Rohingya camp, when she said the crack down in Myanmar's Rakhine state was "tantamount to genocide" and a solution to the Rohingya crisis lies in Myanmar alone.
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It's in some ways reminiscent of the way John Boehner and Mitch McConnell would try to mind-trick Barack Obama into weakening his own hand, by warning him that sticking to his guns was tantamount to provoking a wild animal.
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In its statement on Sunday, the Saudi foreign ministry suggested that the Canadian foreign ministry's demand was tantamount to interference in Riyadh's affairs and warned that any further action would be seen as a license to meddle in Canadian affairs.
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They say what officials are asking for — "a way for law enforcement to retrieve critical information in cases where it's necessary and authorized," in Caldwell's words — is tantamount to the much-maligned "back door" that tech experts say is technically infeasible.
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If the entire Mueller investigation is the equivalent of one, big unconstitutional search, as Trump appeared to claim on Monday, then pardoning individuals targeted by the probe, including himself, would be tantamount to righting a wrong and to protecting constitutional rights.
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Scheer, still relatively unknown to voters after taking over as party leader last year, is choosing his words carefully on issues like climate change and immigration, while Trudeau is attacking his rival's position on the environment as being tantamount to Trump's.
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"If privacy is a human right ... then we contend that Facebook's poor stewardship of user data is tantamount to a human rights violation," Christine Jantz, an official with Facebook investor Northstar Asset Management, said during the meeting, according to Yahoo News.
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"An agreement that would be tantamount to blanket returns of foreigners to a third country is not consistent with European law, is not consistent with international law," Vincent Cochetel, the director of the refugee agency's European bureau, told reporters in Geneva.
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But that study, Abrams said, was tantamount to putting a piece of bread in your toaster oven, toasting the bread until it turned black and the smoke detectors went off in your apartment, and saying that toaster ovens produce carcinogens.
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This is, in part, because doing so would be tantamount to giving the state permission to destroy them, a thought so foreign to these defenders of the supposedly endangered religious right that the possibility has not even occurred to them.
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Whether accomplished quickly or by degrees, it is tantamount to annexation, and it would break with a quarter-century-old agreement, under the Oslo accords, that the status quo between Israel and the Palestinians must not be altered except through negotiations.
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Kamal Kharrazi, the chairman of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, said that if the Americans did not continue to waive the sanctions, "It will be tantamount to their walking out from the treaty," the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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She insisted that her party would take the offensive on what rules should be applied to the digital sphere, which brought criticism from journalists and digital rights activists, who said her remarks were tantamount to suggesting limits on free speech.
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Clearly a man for whom life without literature is tantamount to life without material nourishment, Wood brings to the practice of literary criticism "the ardor of the artist" — the quality John Keats proclaimed most necessary to the making of all art.
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The move represents the most sweeping effort outside China to stop the spread of the coronavirus, and is tantamount to sacrificing the Italian economy in the short term to save it from the ravages of the virus in the long term.
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At a meeting in the foreign ministry in Tehran this month, several diplomats wondered if Iran had misread Iraq all these years, mistakenly seeing its alliance with politicians as tantamount to public support, according to one person who attended the meeting.
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought a business in 2014 from Jorge Nitzan, then chief executive of the Brazilian data-center company Aceco TI, and later discovered accounting problems that it says were tantamount to fraud, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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" IN DEFENSE OF AUDITS: Pollster Nate Silver, who firmly believes there is no evidence of election hacking, wrote "In many ways, undertaking an audit of the election results is tantamount to performing a test for a rare but potentially fatal disease.
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Frank Cannon, president of the conservative group American Principles Project, which has not endorsed a candidate, said that if Kasich emerges as the nominee at a contested convention it would be tantamount to a declaration of war against the party's base.
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WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors accused a JPMorgan Chase executive and two of his colleagues on Monday of manipulating commodities markets for nearly a decade, operating a "massive, multiyear scheme" that the Justice Department said was tantamount to a sprawling criminal enterprise.
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"It was the most painful day in my life," Mr. Moon wrote in his memoir, describing his friend's death as "tantamount to a political murder" and blaming a political vendetta by a new conservative government that wanted to discredit him.
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In his often impromptu sermons, he has condemned sexual abuse of children by priests as being tantamount to a "Satanic Mass", said Catholics in the mafia excommunicate themselves, and told his own cardinals to not act as if they were "princes".
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Throughout the Cold War, the United States strove to convince allies, and even more importantly the Soviet Union, that we would treat an attack on a NATO or east Asian ally as tantamount to an attack on the United States.
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WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors accused a JPMorgan Chase executive and two of his colleagues on Monday of manipulating commodities markets for nearly a decade, operating a "massive, multiyear scheme" that the Justice Department said was tantamount to a sprawling criminal enterprise.
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As 21625 fades into 2900, Turkish forces remain in northeastern Syria, where Kurdish forces have repeatedly accused them of cease-fire violations and where Turkey has proposed resettling Syrian refugees in a plan critics say is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.
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When I asked why he won't just take off the armband to end the drama, he unspooled a story about how the character of Foxler was based on his deceased father and that changing it would be tantamount to disrespecting his memory.
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Missouri has some of the strictest abortion laws in the country—including a mandatory 72-hour waiting period during which patients are required to review misleading material that insists, among other specious claims, that abortion is tantamount to ending a separate life.
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INGRAHAM: When you guys are dealing with this issue day in and day out, and then you hear people, mostly on the left but not always, claim that you guys are tantamount to Nazi concentration camp guards by "shuttling these kids into cages"?
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Monday said Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA's proposed bond swap was a "distressed exchange" that would be "tantamount to default" if completed, a blow to the cash-strapped firm's effort to seek a financial lifeline.
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But Mystery is clearly someone who doesn't like to dwell on the negative, and while what I've read is tantamount to me reading his most nightmarish diary entry, it's also an example of how PUAs use sexual intimidation to drive women toward them.
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Banning popular tech services would not only likely be technically futile, but any attempt to outlaw mainstream networks would be tantamount to political suicide — hence governments feeling the need to wage a hearts and minds PR war every time there's another terrorist outrage.
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In the interview with The Economist, Prince Mohammad agreed with the implication that an I.P.O. would be tantamount to a "Thatcher revolution" for Saudi Arabia, referring to the 1980s privatization of a number of Britain's government enterprises under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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For Mr. Michals, whose roving mind at age 214 still sprints from the philosophical to the paradoxical to the playful, foraging through the museum's vaults was tantamount to an Odyssean journey through some of the finest examples of what civilized man hath wrought.
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It has made the case to American and Swiss authorities that penalising it would be tantamount to self-inflicted industrial sabotage: Congo is the source of two-thirds of the world's cobalt, an element which is crucial to modern electronics (see article).
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"There can't be any compromise about that," Seehofer said, adding he would not make the customary guest visit for a speech to Merkel's CDU party congress in December if the two parties do not find common ground - tantamount to an insult to Merkel.
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Because automakers already have the technology in place for their 2020 models, freezing those standards would be tantamount to ceasing to regulate fuel economy improvements altogether, said Ann E. Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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If America really is an inherently oppressive society, if speech is the mechanism of this oppression or is tantamount to a threat or outright force, then fighting back—or at least advocating that government do that for you—is a logical response.
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" In Moyo's view, cutting yourself off from constructive or negative feedback is tantamount to stunting your personal and professional growth, "people's capacity for self-delusion is enormous, and I wake up sometimes and I think, 'what might I be deluding myself on'.
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President Donald Trump this week made the argument that the removal of Confederate monuments could lead down a slippery slope to the taking down of monuments to the Founding Fathers; he also implied the removal of Confederate monuments was tantamount to changing history.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation slammed the ruling, stating that it makes hyperlinking tantamount to copyright infringement, and that the case "threatens to cause turmoil for thousands if not millions of websites" by giving copyright holders new ammunition to bring lawsuits against publications.
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But if criticism of Zionism means criticism of the notion that the Jews have a right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland, that is another; it is tantamount to saying that Israel does not have the right to exist despite history.
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Indeed, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran warned that any action to designate the IRGC as a terror group "is tantamount to a declaration of war," the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on its English language website Friday.
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Yet, when oversight committees sought documents related to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation of Trump associates, Democrats denounced the very thought that Republicans would question the judgment of the FBI that any such disclosures would be tantamount to jeopardizing national security.
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Opening their personal information up to interception or misuse would be tantamount to the SF-86 background check forms, fingerprints and personnel files that were lifted from OPM government servers and could leave key national security personnel vulnerable to foreign espionage or blackmail.
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Jalel Harchaoui, research fellow at the Clingendael Institute international relations think-tank in The Hague, said the Trump phone call was tantamount to supporting Haftar's operation and thus creates "an environment where a military intervention by foreign states, like Egypt, is likelier".
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Harvard counters that the documents are tantamount to trade secrets, and that even in the unlikely event that the judge agrees to decide the case without a trial, she is likely to use only a fraction of the evidence in her decision.
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A health care provider who violates the anti-kickback or self-referral law may face business-crippling fines under the False Claims Act and can be excluded from Medicare and Medicaid, a penalty tantamount to a professional death sentence for some providers.
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Kremlin criticizes US over list Addressing supporters in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that although he hadn't yet seen the list, the sheer number of top officials included on it was tantamount to a US condemnation of the whole country.
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Then there are Republicans who are more hard-line on immigration, many of whom see the prospect that those covered by DACA could be granted a path to citizenship as tantamount to amnesty, one of the most potent words in the conservative lexicon.
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"Islamic State and Boko Haram have over the past weeks ceaselessly warned locals that voting in the elections is tantamount to apostasy," said Fulan Nasrullah, a researcher who tracks the groups at the Global Initiative For Civil Stabilisation, a Nigerian-based think tank.
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Roger Cohen WASHINGTON — The bizarre burst of diplomatic activity on Israel-Palestine in the waning days of the Obama administration has been tantamount to an admission that, on this subject, things only get said too late and when they no longer mean anything.
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" Walter Shaub — Apol's predecessor at the Office of Government Ethics, who resigned last year after clashes with Trump officials and has frequently criticized Trump in the media since — tweeted that this was "tantamount to a criminal referral," reporting Trump "for potentially committing a crime.
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The officials, who briefed a group of reporters on condition of anonymity, said Turkey's purchase of the S-400 system was not tantamount to it withdrawing from NATO, but that Ankara's purchase should be viewed as a national security issue, not a merely commercial decision.
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It stands to reason that if a show is going to take up the mantle and write about sex in a way that feels honest, then whether or not the sex is safe and the means by which this is ensured — is of tantamount importance.
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Both topics had been ruled inadmissible by Clark County Circuit Judge Vicki Carmichael, and the references led defense attorney Bart Betteau to say her comments were tantamount to a "skunk" in the jury box that would prejudice jurors against his client, reports the Courier Journal.
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"The same tipping point occurred whether people were asked if the face 'had a mind', 'could form a plan,' or was 'able to experience pain,' indicating that recognizing life in a face is tantamount to recognizing the capacity for a mental life," Wheatley says.
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The statements came the same day as credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's said that a proposed bond swap by PDVSA was a "distressed exchange" that would be "tantamount to default" if completed, a blow to the cash-strapped firm's effort to seek a financial lifeline.
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There's no reason you should have to dig into your travel fund or give up seeing that concert for which you've been saving for months, just to be able to afford a technology that has become tantamount to a necessity in today's digitally driven era.
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Netanyahu's attorneys argue that the inclusion of laundry expenses would be tantamount to "peeping" into his private affairs, but Anat Revivo, who oversees compliance with the Freedom of Information law at the prime minister's office, maintains that the public has a right to know.
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Duterte and his allies were chided last week after lawmakers allied with Duterte supported giving the Philippines Commission on Human Rights an annual budget of just 1,000 pesos ($19.55), which critics at home and abroad said would be tantamount to destroying a constitutional body.
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The defense would likely try to fight this by arguing that any charges against Chapo in the other courts are tantamount to double jeopardy, since he would have already beaten the broad conspiracy charges in Brooklyn that cover almost all of his (alleged) criminal career.
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Saksena stressed that in the current low volatility environment having a one day drop of more than four percent would be tantamount to the kind of shock experienced when the S&P 500 fell over 20 percent on the "Black Monday" crash of Oct.
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The measure was backed by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan who claimed that hunger strikes were tantamount to a "suicide attack", but so far doctors have refused to carry out the procedure which was branded "humiliating" and "bordering on torture" by the Israel Medical Association.
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While certain broadband Internet access provider conduct may result in degradation of an end user's Internet experience that is tantamount to blocking, we believe that this conduct requires delineation in an explicit rule rather than through commentary as part of the no-blocking rule.
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Former Hong Kong leader CY Leung went so far as to suggest that the FCC should be forced to give up its lease (which he incorrectly claimed was government-subsidized) while he claimed that hosting Chan was tantamount to giving "criminals and terrorists" air time.
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I was first prompted to take a close look at how Genius works on March 25th, when sexual health blogger Ella Dawson published a searing complaint alleging that the web annotator was tantamount to the forcible creation of comments for sites that don't want them.
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As Ron Klain, the former chief of staff to both Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden, told Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC's "The Last Word," the idea of a such a meeting would be a nightmare for Republican strategists and tantamount to political insanity.
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Turning to the commissioned officer and his lead petty officer in charge of third phase training, the investigator urged Navy leaders to convene an Executive Officer's Inquiry to determine if the slap bet system under their watch was tantamount to negligent dereliction of duty.
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Damon, Young, and others making similar arguments seem to worry that taking reports of sexual harassment or misconduct seriously is tantamount to punishing all offenses equally, subjecting anyone who commits any form of sexual misconduct to the same consequences as someone convicted of rape.
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The Mass Games are a major draw for tourists, most of them from China, but the inclusion of thousands of child performers has been criticized by rights groups as tantamount to forced child labor, and testimonies collected by defector groups describe harsh training regimes.
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Though many vendors are hesitant to comment on the record (the Grocery Manufacturers Association declined to comment for this story), they see slotting fees as tantamount to extortion, and entire issues of industry magazines like Frozen & Refrigerated Buyer are dedicated to the great slotting debate.
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At least three of the five Iranians for whom Interpol has issued "red notices" in connection with the attack—Mohsen Rabbani, Mohammad Asghari, and Ali Fallahian—have filed appeals with Interpol that their red notices, which are tantamount to international arrest warrants, be lifted.
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Wahhabism, the ultra-conservative branch of Islam that emerged in Saudi Arabia some 250 years ago, regards the veneration of objects, especially those predating the Prophet Mohammed's life in the 7th century, as tantamount to idolatry, and has advocated their neglect or outright destruction.
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However, because the plan offers a new approach, many on the Palestinian side, including President Mahmoud Abbas and the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, say that the plan is dead on arrival and that engaging with it is tantamount to a Palestinian declaration of surrender.
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A Palestinian security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on a sensitive security issue, said the Palestinian businessmen's participation in the conference was "tantamount to betrayal," adding that Palestinian law punishes those who betray their homeland.
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Washington state's Supreme Court last year rejected Stutzman's argument that forcing her to create floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding would violate her free speech rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and would be tantamount to endorsing same-sex marriage.
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Mainly, it would be tantamount to admitting that the systems we're not allowed to know about — and the metrics we aren't allowed to see — might not be quite as valuable, or as worthy of trade secrecy, as Facebook needs us to think they are.
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In an industry traditionally focused on the birth of a garment as opposed to its death, where "organic" is taken as gospel and "synthetic" is a term tantamount to the devil, the idea that polyester might not be a long-term enemy is pretty disruptive.
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The logic for taking away the central banks' voting rights is based on the premise that they would not be free to vote in favour of taking a loss on their holdings because that would tantamount to directly financing the government that issued that debt.
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Just as Biden did in Nevada — where he fashioned a second-place finish as a win — Sanders' team is also saying that his expected second-place finish will be tantamount to a victory after his thrashing by Hillary Clinton in the state in 2016.
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"Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment, including members of this body, full well understand that a presidential impeachment is tantamount to domestic war, but thankfully protected by our beloved First Amendment, a war of words and a war of ideas," Starr said.
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The deals are expected to come at around the same time and although one senior European loan banker said that could be tantamount to a "head-to-head celebratory death match", most bankers are confident there is enough capacity to soak up both deals.
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On Wall Street, a selloff in tech stocks drove major indexes lower and equities fell further after North Korea's foreign minister said in a statement at the United Nations that U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets over the weekend were tantamount to a declaration of war.
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Or perhaps, in spite of Facebook's very large but relatively insignificant fine, halting facial recognition's use in the public or private sector is tantamount to putting the horse back in the barn (although facial recognition could probably make it easier to locate said horse).
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Museums & Galleries This exhibition, closing on Sunday, is the largest yet devoted to Segers, an under-known Dutch master whose printmaking innovations, talent for contrasting textures and predilection for rendering each sheet a unique artwork resulted in images that are tantamount to small paintings.
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It is therefore reasonable to believe failure to address this opioids crisis will not only translate to more IVDUs and a consequential spike in the HIV prevalence down the road but is tantamount to putting the current mental health crisis in the US on steroids.
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Coined by the atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen around the year 2000, the word expressed his intuition that humanity had become tantamount to the great forces of nature and that our activities now shaped the state of the systems that regulate the conditions of life.
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One sign of its power was that critics expressed feelings tantamount to romantic betrayal when Mr. Orozco shifted in 2004 to exhibiting paintings: colored diagrams using circle fragments in a 2-1 or 1-2 pattern of a knight's movement on a chess board.
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Gubarev's defamation case is "tantamount to asserting that the American public should, to this day, be ignorant about the text of a document that has been at the epicenter of government activity and public debate for almost two years," the BuzzFeed lawyers wrote Monday.
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A sudden rent hike of $444 would be tantamount to an eviction notice for many renters: The median income for rent-stabilized tenants is about $3,20153 a month and rent already eats up 35 percent of that, according to the city's latest housing survey.
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But Democratic senators are floating the prospect that McConnell will move to cut off the vote-a-rama if he feels Democrats are putting up votes on amendments purely as a delay tactic — a maneuver that would effectively be tantamount to a legislative nuclear option.
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Democrats are already looking at the second wave of GOP reform legislation, targeting House Speaker Paul Ryan's long desire to reform Medicare by providing vouchers for seniors to buy insurance, a move critics say is tantamount to privatization and wouldn't meet the entire cost of care.
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By arguing that impeachment is tantamount to a coup, Trump is essentially saying it needs to be fought as if it were a coup — essentially saying that a democratic vote to remove him can never be acceptable, because he is the true voice of the people.
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Roussell, a professional nutritionalist who oversees the diets of professional athletes, celebrities, and other upper echelon clients as the director of nutrition for PEAK Performance, a gym in New York, says intermittent fasting is really just tantamount to kicking your daily caloric can down the road.
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That anti-fragmentation concern is evident in Google's choice of closely matched, almost identical specs between the 5-inch Pixel and 5.5-inch Pixel XL. To compete in the mobile world without control of the hardware your software runs on is tantamount to playing a lottery.
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That the "no" campaign boasted such supporters as Marine Le Pen of the hard-right National Front and Philippe de Villiers, a celebrity figure on the nationalist fringe, enabled the easy narrative that any and all criticism of European unification was tantamount to xenophobia and proto-fascism.
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Proposals to decriminalize border crossings, which are fast gaining steam on the left, have alarmed former Obama administration officials, who warn that it is tantamount to an open borders policy and will be exploited by Republicans in the 2020 election to cast Democrats as extreme on immigration.
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Days earlier on New Year's Eve, the Likud Central Committee -- the guiding body for Netanyahu's political party -- voted unanimously to apply Israeli law to the country's settlements in the West Bank, a move that would be seen as tantamount to annexing large swaths of the territory.
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After Trump withdrew America from the Iran nuclear deal — even though Iran was abiding by its terms — his ambitious, sycophantic secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, gave a speech listing the 12 ways Iran had to change at home and abroad — demands that were tantamount to regime change.
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" His rival, the leader of the conservative New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Wednesday had accused Mr. Tsipras of forcing austerity measures on Greeks, and said voting to support the prime minister would be tantamount to approving the "shipwrecked state of the country over the past four years.
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President Trump's staff is famously reluctant to bring cybersecurity issues to his desk for fear that he would again conflate recommendations for improved defenses with discussion of Russia's efforts to interfere in American elections, which Mr. Trump considers tantamount to questioning the legitimacy of his presidency.
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The behavior is tantamount to a law enforcement officer who checks someone's ID to make sure it properly describes the person's height, address, birthday, and face but fails to notice that the weight is listed as 250 pounds when the person clearly weighs less than half that.
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"Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment, including members of this body, full well understand that a presidential impeachment is tantamount to domestic war, but thankfully protected by our beloved First Amendment, a war of words and a war of ideas," said Starr on Monday.
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