Tantamount
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99 examples of Tantamount in a sentence
Obviously, this means that everyone wants their favorite issue on the agenda, and more than a thousand targets have been proposed, which is
tantamount
to having no priorities at all.
Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is
tantamount
to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.
Cooperation between the CDU and AfD would betray Adenauer’s legacy and be
tantamount
to the end of the Bonn Republic.
In the old Europe, with fragmented financial markets, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's request that Mannesmann remain a German company in the face of a (successful) takeover bid by Vodaphone was
tantamount
to his following an order by the company's mostly German shareholders.
This is
tantamount
to advocating pro-cyclical monetary policy.
In the absence of effective vaccines or new anti-malarial drugs – and the funding and infrastructure to deliver them – this decision is
tantamount
to mass murder, a triumph of radical environmental politics over public health.
After all, they are – by design – irreversible decisions that tie the hands of future governments, which makes them
tantamount
to constitutional norms.
Such a move would put Ukraine’s strategic network of gas pipelines under direct Russian control, and, as Tymoshenko, now the opposition leader, has noted, would be
tantamount
to the “full absorption of Ukraine by Russia.”
Today, no less than in the past, the rejection of diversity is
tantamount
to the rejection of democracy.
British politicians have also begun to protest, even though criticizing the BoE was long considered
tantamount
to blaspheming in church.
An international term limit would have put Zimbabwe (and its neighbors) on notice early on: Mugabe's continued rule after 22 years would be
tantamount
to international isolation.
Some people would scream that this is
tantamount
to nationalization, but it is no more a nationalization that the US Chapter 11 bankruptcy process is.
More than half of the 43 members of the Association of Small Island States believe that the decision to do nothing, to let ocean waters rise, can be considered
tantamount
to approval of murder.
What he chose was a compromise: to make clear his disdain for the agreement without leaving it or reintroducing sanctions that were removed as part of it (a step that would be
tantamount
to US withdrawal).
Prohibiting the Chinese authorities from buying US debt would, of course, be
tantamount
to imposing capital controls, thereby breaking China’s monopoly on such instruments.
As for North Korea, its leaders know that giving up their nuclear weapons, without safeguards, would be
tantamount
to suicide.
According to Saudi Arabia, because the Houthis are backed by Iran, their attempted missile strike was
tantamount
to an Iranian “act of war.”
For so-called “alarmists,” pointing out what’s wrong with drastic carbon cuts is somehow
tantamount
to denying the reality of climate change, while so-called “deniers” lambast anyone who accepts the scientific evidence supporting this “mythical” problem.
Representatives of overly indebted countries, and of countries whose banks are strongly exposed as creditors, argue that haircuts would destabilize the European financial system, generating contagion effects
tantamount
to a second Lehman Brothers crisis.
tantamount
to a Western-controlled protectorate.
For Iran, this development would be
tantamount
to a strategic worst-case scenario, bringing about its definitive isolation.
Forcing medical treatment on a competent adult patient who does not want it is
tantamount
to assault.
Some would regard the sale of the economy’s “crown jewels” as
tantamount
to national betrayal, possibly a capital crime.
Alternatively, from the other side of the Atlantic, to keep the euro/dollar exchange where it now is would be
tantamount
to the Fed's declaring that, in spite of an unemployment rate as low as 4.4%, it will decrease interest rates and perhaps revive the corpse of inflation.
But it also reveals something else: a morally crooked logic that condemns governments and leaders to remain silent in the face of aggression, repression, and even death, because to say anything would be
tantamount
to “intervention” in another country’s internal affairs.
But the rest of the world believes that lifting the sanctions is
tantamount
to handing Iraq's oil future over to the US and UK occupying forces and their corporate cronies.
Indeed, an energy tax would not only effectively counter the argument that Europeans are “free riders” when it comes to defense; it would be
tantamount
to defense leadership.
At the same time, freedom of expression and association are severely limited; criticizing government policies is deemed
tantamount
to high treason.
Then foregoing landing fees is
tantamount
to giving Ryanair state aid - the presumption being that the lost revenue must be coming at the expense of Belgian taxpayers.
This would be
tantamount
to a fiscal union, which could be empowered to issue Eurobonds, coupled with ex ante control of the issue of public debt.
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