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People like Kenneth Miller could be called a "godsend" to the evolution lobby, (Laughter) because they expose the lie that evolutionism is, as a matter of fact,
tantamount
to atheism.
Nevertheless, it's an undeniable fact that to own up to being an atheist is
tantamount
to introducing yourself as Mr. Hitler or Miss Beelzebub.
My colleague Dr. Mary Anne Franks and I are working with US lawmakers to devise legislation that would ban harmful digital impersonations that are
tantamount
to identity theft.
The acting is
tantamount
to amateur dramatics, poor amateur dramatics.
Peck portrays King David as a lusty but tormented poet who commits what is
tantamount
to murder to bed a sexy Bathsheba, Susan Hayward.
It all just worked so much better when Jed was a well-off liberal, rather than a man who seems
tantamount
to being a vagrant, when Claire was a poetry enthusiast, when the audience was actually left in doubt, like Claire, about the state of Joe's mental health.
To make a movie like this is
tantamount
to being offered one million dollars to spend on any car of your choice and choosing a 1987 Chevy Nova with no muffler.
To Holmes maniacs like myself, this is
tantamount
to sacrilege!
For those out there that are either too young to remember or have not had the privilege of learning these stories in history classes, knowing how hard some people fought and how much they struggled to achieve a right that many current citizens take for granted is
tantamount.
They should recognize that acquiescence would be
tantamount
to handing the US a blank check to set the rules of war and peace beyond the UN Security Council, and the rules of global trade beyond the World Trade Organization.
In my view, the shift from understanding the determinants of a country’s economic structure and facilitating its change is
tantamount
to throwing the baby out with the bath water.
FIFA, McGrath alleges, was demanding something
tantamount
to a “blank check,” including an “open-ended ability to modify the agreement … at any time and at their discretion.”
There can be no middle way; on the contrary, searching for consensus or accommodation is
tantamount
to treachery.
Nor should France and Germany regard support for the US in the candidate countries as
tantamount
to approval of a war against Iraq or any other country.
His friends in the US Senate have already introduced a bill, which currently has 59 cosponsors, that would impose new sanctions on Iran; this is
tantamount
to torpedoing the entire Iran deal.
The goal should be to build and exercise influence within the international community to the point that the coalition becomes
tantamount
to a permanent “sixth” member of the Security Council.
Abandoning it would be
tantamount
to declaring the entire European integration project a failure.
Indeed, for some Russians, any economic movement towards Asia is
tantamount
to a departure from a European path of development.
Reinhart and Rogoff, shocked by this charge –
tantamount
to an accusation of academic dishonesty – released a careful rebuttal, including online evidence that they had not been reticent about sharing their data.
For the US, allowing China continued access to America’s market and technology would be
tantamount
to handing it the tools to beat the US economically – and then geopolitically.
His large fortune was
tantamount
to a gift from the ANC’s Black Economic Empowerment programs in the 1990s.
The T-bills could be sold to the ECB at any time, making them
tantamount
to cash; but, as long as they yield more than deposits with the ECB, the banks would find it advantageous to hold them.
For Europe to turn down Turkey would be
tantamount
to writing ourselves out of any serious script in global affairs.
Indeed, the approach was
tantamount
to putting the cart before the horse – with serious consequences, exemplified in the eurozone’s enduring crisis.
Although the internationalization of a currency is not
tantamount
to capital-account liberalization, the degree of internationalization is conditional on capital-account liberalization.
Others are calling for criminal investigations, characterizing the work he led on a Plan B (whereby Greece would introduce a new payments system either in parallel or instead of the euro) as
tantamount
to treason.
South Korea views this as
tantamount
to outsourcing China’s containment to an unrepentant imperial power.
Soon after, Johnson described May’s EU negotiating position as being
tantamount
to wrapping “a suicide vest around the British constitution” and handing the detonator to the EU.
Now that Xi’s eponymous political ideology, which proposes an alternative to liberal democracy, is part of the school of thought around which the CPC coalesces, challenging Xi is
tantamount
to challenging the Party’s very belief system.
This is not, however, a testament to the dollar’s role as a reserve currency – after all, the fiscal gap is a bill that needs to be paid, and creditors would regard any attempt by the US to devalue the repayment by printing money and stoking inflation as
tantamount
to default.
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