Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second recess appointment. Senators were vexed. Said Senator Harris of Georgia: "If he [the President] can withdraw appointments from confirmation and make recess appointments without limit, he can virtually deprive the Senate of its right to confirm or reject. It seems that an evasion of the Constitution is tantamount to an infraction...
...fulfilment. During the week, the Unitarians of America celebrated at Bos ton the centennial of their formal organization. Significance. Theologically, the chief characteristic of Unitarianism is its denial of the Trinity*-a doctrine on which nearly every other Christian body is in substantial agreement. Denial of the Trinity is tantamount to denial of the divinity of Christ. To the layman, Unitarianism means both these denials-and one thing more: a spirit, urbane, tolerant, intellectual lofty but not dynamic, illustrious but not victorious. Today, Unitarians regard themselves as having a special significance. They see about them "liberals" among Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists...
Thereupon Senator Ralston, Demo-cratic sage, proposed that there should be a new deal. Let the Government, said he, devise a Muscle Shoals pol- icy. In conformity with that policy, let there be new bids. This was tantamount to postponing the whole question for at least a year...
...pacifist motion introduced by Walter Ayles, a young Quaker Labor-Socialist, representing North Bristol, proposing a sweeping reduction in the British Army of 150,000 men. The authorized strength of the British Army is 225,588 all ranks, including 71,357 British Garrison in India, so the measure was tantamount to the abolition of the British Home forces, exclusive of the 135,000 Territorial (or Militia) forces. A small bloc of former "conshies," or Conscientious Objectors, were the only M. P.'s in favor of reduction. The Government held that one nation disarmed in the midst of an armed...
...godliness" tantamount to a Christian mode of life? If so, then whose interpretation of Christianity? How can that "godliness" include the Buddhist, the Jew, or the Confucianist within our gates. Frankly, are these groups "godless"? And again, if "godliness" demands subscription to a trinitarian theism, all monotheists must be "godless". Pantheists of any sort, by such a criterion, are hopelessly "godless...