Utiliser "tantamount" dans une phrase

1. We have difficulty dissuading ourselves from the habit of thinking we are 'one;' so to not acknowledge our presumed 'unity' by avoiding saying 'I' is tantamount to denying our existence

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2. We all looked at Bert in amazement for what he had said was wrong we were all in this together and it was tantamount to calling George a shirker

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3. The Council had finally sanctioned what was tantamount to an act of war

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4. The federal government‘s half-hearted attempt at reducing budget deficits is tantamount to a terminally ill patient disengaging his or her life support system

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5. A tie, in whatever sporting event, is tantamount to taking one‘s sister to the prom!

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6. This is tantamount to saying that because a family has the financial resources to send its children to private schools, that public schools should be off-limits

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7. This was tantamount to the scene from the spaghetti westerns where the doomed cowboy is made to dig his own grave before being shot backwards into it

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8. At one time, the conventional wisdom was that choosing the second option was tantamount to career suicide

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9. situations they had taught about in the academy, where kindness was tantamount to cruelty

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10. been the error of those who have expounded it as simply tantamount to sheer

11. Rejection of this practice is tantamount to

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12. He cannot be allowed to escape," she said, gritting her teeth as if the idea of escape was tantamount to treason

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13. because associating partners with ALLAH is tantamount with

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14. Judgment or prejudice against others was tantamount to declaring war on yourself and your family, since whatever it was that you gave to the world would be acted upon with the design of that momentum

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15. In my humble opinion, leaving those 4,000 soldiers ashore would be tantamount to sacrificing them for no good purpose

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16. To refuse permission to the 8th Army to evacuate Korea in these conditions is tantamount to sacrificing all these men and women for nothing, you damn jackass!’’

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17. As for presenting my plans in advance to you, General Salan, that would have been tantamount to throwing surprise away

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18. To include a lemon filled donut would be tantamount to calling the designers a bunch of squealing fairies

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19. sophisticated that it has become sentient and destroying it would be tantamount to

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20. destroy the Borg at Wolf 359, that was self defense, but to use it against the Romulan home world is tantamount to genocide

21. Imagine that there is a supreme, infinite effulgence hidden behind all these names and forms which is tantamount to the effulgence of crores of suns put together

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22. To refuse the Princess this request, even in the best of situations, was tantamount

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23. surrendering as tantamount to death itself, which in a way it is, because it involves opening ourselves to the psychic life of the soul and the psychic essence of

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24. If he did, then it was tantamount to an admission that his decision had been faulty

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25. Turney left: in a hospital, a surgeon’s opinion is tantamount to law

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26. readily al owed this, it would have been tantamount to endorsing

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27. denotes the fall of religion and is tantamount to Himsa

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28. Clinton’s) support of Israel’s breach of the Peace Accord to be tantamount to joining the Israelis’ side in said possible/probable war

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29. Which is tantamount to saying Jesus paid his taxes so that Rome could afford the nails with which to crucify him and the overtime for the soldiers to guard his tomb

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30. Yes, his very own act was tantamount to killing himself: for the Almighty Al’lah had granted him the power of cogent thought to use it appropriately, but he failed to use it at all

31. To a zombie, this conversation was tantamount to a dinner bell

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32. I knew that and I also knew that my even thinking about the detective’s wife was tantamount to juvenile stupidity of the most ridiculous kind

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33. figured out that would be tantamount to selling the ships to

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34. become tantamount to travel between Europe and the Americas in the

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35. Is it not sharing if you are not aware of it? I had a friend who was always going on about how polygamy is wrong and that what I was doing was tantamount to cheating and his wife was so proud of him and every time he would start this conversation I’d ask him to stop because he was insulting not just me but my wives as well and he’d do so

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36. What kind of cultural insanity made them commit such an insane sacrilege upon the biggest statue they ever built? It would have been tantamount to modern Americans disfiguring Mount Rushmore, and replacing its symbolic meaning by wiping off the original faces and replacing them with smaller faces of another species

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37. It would be tantamount to

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38. If what his sister told him was true, then Luanna had taken a huge risk, magic or no magic; infiltrating a police station--a police station in the progressive region, of all places--was tantamount to an act of madness

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39. To apologize now was tantamount to admitting defeat

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40. overplay to which they were referring was tantamount to a type of neuronal cassette, or

41. to temptation is tantamount to eating your seed before

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42. Which is tantamount to saying that the air contained in the Nautilus would be exactly enough for 625 men over twenty–four hours

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43. Claire had seen a 60 Minutes story where a government whistleblower had said connecting your computer to the Internet was tantamount to jacking yourself directly into the NSA

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44. Must we accept the view of Empedocles of Trinacria that the right ovary (the postmenstrual period, assert others) is responsible for the birth of males or are the too long neglected spermatozoa or nemasperms the differentiating factors or is it, as most embryologists incline to opine, such as Culpepper, Spallanzani, Blumenbach, Lusk, Hertwig, Leopold and Valenti, a mixture of both? This would be tantamount to a cooperation (one of nature's favourite devices) between the nisus formativus of the nemasperm on the one hand and on the other a happily chosen position, succubitus felix of the passive element

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45. Another thing he commented on was equipping soldiers with firearms or sidearms of any description liable to go off at any time which was tantamount to inciting them against civilians should by any chance they fall out over anything

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46. “That since the stones are not passing through his lands, but originate there, the tax is tantamount to charging the monks for the stones, contrary to the charter of Henry I

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47. "May I ask why you returned from America? I considered that the strong wish you expressed to go there, when an adequate sum was furnished, was tantamount to an engagement that you would remain there for life

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48. Will was in a defiant mood, his consciousness being deeply stung with the thought that the people who looked at him probably knew a fact tantamount to an accusation against him as a fellow with low designs which were to be frustrated by a disposal of property

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49. I knew that this was tantamount to passing up the opportunity entirely, but for various reasons I chose not to argue the issue

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50. It is tantamount to an options position in which you sell gamma

51. One example I love in particular is the 2013 study from Britain’s University of Exeter Medical School that reveals how volunteering is associated with lower rates of depression, higher reports of well-being, and a 22% reduction in death rates! She also writes, “Volunteering at least once a week yields improvements to well-being tantamount to your salary increasing from $20,000 to $75,000!”

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52. It was impossible first because- as experience shows that a three-mile movement of columns on a battlefield never coincides with the plans-the probability of Chichagov, Kutuzov, and Wittgenstein effecting a junction on time at an appointed place was so remote as to be tantamount to impossibility, as in fact thought Kutuzov, who when he received the plan remarked that diversions planned over great distances do not yield the desired results

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53. There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and

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54. These feats, tantamount to hitting a bullet with a bullet, have earned the IBD/TIPP poll, conducted by TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, the honor of being America’s most accurate

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55. His uncle, however, believed that the failure of Elbers was due not to privileges but to the unrealistic commitments he had contracted for, which had almost been tantamount to his assuming responsibility for the geography of the nation: he had taken charge of maintaining the navigability of the river, the port installations, the access routes on land, the means of transportation

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56. For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree

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57. For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid

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58. But commerce and the banking industry consist in nothing but selling at a higher price than that at which the purchases are made, and so the proposition that articles should not be sold except at a purchase price, and that money should be abolished, is tantamount to a proposition that they should abolish themselves

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59. It was impossible first because—as experience shows that a three-mile movement of columns on a battlefield never coincides with the plans—the probability of Chichagóv, Kutúzov, and Wittgenstein effecting a junction on time at an appointed place was so remote as to be tantamount to impossibility, as in fact thought Kutúzov, who when he received the plan remarked that diversions planned over great distances do not yield the desired results

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60. What may I be thinking about now? Nothing—or, at all events, what is tantamount to it

61. Randolph said that as an indefinite postponement was considered as tantamount to a rejection—for it prevents a renewal of the subject during the session, and a rejection does nothing more, as the House had heretofore had a woful experience in the case of certain very pertinacious petitioners; and, as he was afraid, they would again have from a certain body of petitioners, who, he presumed, had not entirely given up their hopes of quartering themselves on the public property—an indefinite postponement, then, being equivalent to a rejection, he certainly was opposed to the rejection of his own motion

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62. Findlay,) if he is near enough to hear me in this vast room, when have I proposed bringing in review the whole measures of former administration; when have I proposed an answer to an address to the two Houses? I have proposed no such thing, sir, although my motion is nearly tantamount to it; because it so happens that the only act of which we have any knowledge, except the laying up the gunboats in dry dock, which I also most cordially approbate, is this very thing

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