Word: tantamount
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...specify who or what created life as we know it, they say, it is not an inherently religious idea. Critics, however, say that intelligent design is inherently religious since it relies on a supernatural creative force, which cannot be tested or proven by scientific experiments. This, they said, is tantamount to introducing God into the process, an impermissible injection of religion into the classroom...
Many of my non-Crimson friends think doing FM is tantamount to sadomasochism (with me on the abuse-receiving end, obviously). FM seems to chew the execs up every Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday night, and spit us back out Wednesday morning a little unshowered and a lot sleep-deprived. Even when we leave 14 Plympton, FM follows us home, making demands via e-mail and haunting our dreams...
...beautiful grassy field, which helps to symbolically connect the Houses. The aforementioned alternative plan, however, lacks a unifying focal space and simply strings the houses along the river, hurting any possibility of common place for Allstonners to rally around. If this plan is adopted, being Allstonned will be tantamount to being Quadded. The right place to situate the new houses is directly across Week’s Footbridge from the currently existing river Houses. The erection of these new Houses in view of already-vibrant river Houses, coupled with the establishment of improved transportation across the river, will allow Allstonners...
What ultimately stopped me from acting out my peer-to-peer fantasies was not the illegality of what I was proposing to do. Even if I had realized that downloading was tantamount to digital piracy, it probably wouldn’t have made a difference—being a pirate ranked prominently among my list of career aspirations well into my freshman year of college...
...among them is whether undocumented immigrants should be required to return to their home country before applying for a work visa or whether they could get guest-worker status without leaving the U.S. The second, more lenient option has been attacked by the Minutemen and other conservative groups as tantamount to amnesty...