Word: tantamount
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...scrawny, white, and heavily tattooed “Mr. Cool Ice,” there is a simpler reason. They don’t want to appear pathetic. And at least among those who know what Craigslist is, admitting posting or responding to an ad on Craigslist is tantamount to branding yourself as a failure at life...
...this is more than just an argument over semantics. Under Executive Order 13224, the U.S. government can disrupt financial assets of any terrorist organization. Conducting such acts against a sovereign state is essentially an act of war. Labeling the IRG in such a way is potentially tantamount to imposing clandestine unilateral sanctions on Iran using a legal loophole...
...Meanwhile, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza said that Israel's declaration was tantamount to "a declaration of war". But on Wednesday, militants fired only a single rocket, which failed to clear the 20-foot concrete wall that Israel built to corral the Gazans...
...declared anti-Zionism—that is, the rejection of the racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine—the worst kind of anti-Semitism. For such defenders of Israel, any acknowledgment that Zionism in principle and in practice violates Palestinian rights is tantamount to an endorsement of the Holocaust...
...Brotherhood of Teamsters, fresh from his recent tour of Chinese cities, told the committee that China's "first priority is economic progress. It second priority is people." Scott Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, blasted China for breaking the rules of the WTO, behavior he called tantamount to "cheating." "China must be held accountable," he said, for its "unfair and predatory practices... American companies can compete against foreign companies, but they can't compete against foreign governments...