0 being almost the same or having the same effect as something, usually something bad: --
1 equal: --
This, of course, was tantamount to embezzling municipal funds.
It infers, or assumes, that the actual process of having a social relationship is tantamount to receiving support.
Relinquishing variation to natural forces was for them tantamount to claiming that variation was arbitrary, with no ordained cause or foreseeable end.
One suggests that the act of writing the music down, of copying it, may have been tantamount to the act of composition itself.
This is tantamount to explicitly committing liberalism to the freedom of illocutionar y acts and implicitly praising them for this commitment.
These constraints make directly conflicting requirements, but still the domination of one by the other is not tantamount to the inactivity of the dominated constraint.
It is tantamount to an ideological means that propagandise (effectively or not) to the people a future towards which the whole nation is moving.
This is tantamount to the network design of trade policy.
