Tantamount

A man’s protest campaign against a council’s children’s services department “crossed a threshold” and was tantamount to putting a target on social workers' backs, a court has been told.

Disciplinary revocation is tantamount to disbarment.

If Alvey-Wimbush and Thelot are successful in gaining the nomination, they are almost certain to go to Trenton, since the Democratic primary is tantamount to an election in this district.

If you believe that abortion is murder, such a retreat would be tantamount to allowing genocide in some localities but not others.

On the other hand, Greenergy would have infused P900 million by subscribing to Ala Eh’s unissued capital stock tantamount to 60 percent.

Should such legislations come to pass, it will be tantamount to giving the government unlimited power without any checks and balances, destroying the very foundation of democracy on which the country was founded and in which Israelis take special pride.

Such care is under attack from Republicans in other parts of the country who want to ban the practice and argue it is tantamount to child abuse or neglect.

That’s tantamount to depositing $100 million in Hamas’s bank account.

That, too ran up against staunch opposition from D66 and CU, who said it was tantamount to abandoning vulnerable children in war-torn countries to their fate.

The juntas in Burkina Faso and Mali have warned any military intervention in Niger would be tantamount to a “declaration of war”.

This is tantamount to saying that this Government will engage in the same corrupt practices.

Working against the conduct of the Census is tantamount to trying to deny the incoming administration and the people credible data that will spur development in Benue and Nigeria at large.

Zephyr, a first-term representative from Missoula, declared that denying gender-affirming care to youngsters who feel at odds with their birth sex was "tantamount to torture" and that a ban would lead to more suicides.

A recent floor speech from Mr. Schumer, who is Jewish, split the Democratic Party over what critics said was tantamount to calls for a regime change of a close U.S. ally.

Doctors say his injuries were so severe it was tantamount to him being involved in a 100mph car crash.

During his presidency, his very name became tantamount to a curse in Manhattan.

If we just ignore an opportunity to place a parent on a higher spiritual level – this is tantamount to standing idly by another’s blood.

In chapters 15 and 16, the book exhibits the risks inherent in every business, showing that it will be tantamount to business denseness not anticipating and planning forbusiness risks from the strategy formulation stage.

My own concern, however, is that making inquiries such as these is, in the eyes of some, tantamount to aiding and abetting.

Saving PDP is tantamount to saving democracy.