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...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...
...more cases than not, they will also have had their ovaries and fallopian tubes removed during the procedure. Doctors have long turned to hysterectomy as a treatment for conditions that range from heavy periods to ovarian cancer, but its widespread use concerns some critics, who say it's tantamount to female castration...