Word: tantamount
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...fight a future war, it could not heop but provide simultaneously an additional impetus to the complicated forces that are inexorably herding the world toward hostility, aggression, and unless halted, towards eventual conflict. The United States has traditionally avoided peacetime conscription. Consequently, the adoption of UMT would be tantamount to an admission that we consider peace more precarious now than it has ever been in our past. Its passage could do little in the field of foreign relations beyond irritating already unfriendly nations, and disillusioning many others...
...necessarily "life-adjusted." Only through a solid acquaintance with the humanities can we expect to retain a true perspective of life and of the world in which we live. To reject the so-called "impractical" subjects in our high schools is to deny our cultural heritage. . . . It is tantamount to admitting . . . that learning, as far as we in America are concerned, is nothing more than a quick method for discovering which button to push and when to push...
...wouldn't just skip the hearing and issue an order one way or the other. In support of its free-ski policy, Colonial added: "Skis are standard apparel for many people during many months of the year. To charge extra for a pair of skis would be tantamount to charging extra for a pair of overshoes." But at week's end, ponderous CAB had not yet terminated or illuminated its obscuration...
...wrote: "Equality in the abstract is purely formal... Even equality before the law may be a mockery when the law is framed by members of a privileged class. Freedom itself can be equally formal. Freedom to choose or refuse a job is unreal if freedom to refuse is merely tantamount to freedom to starve." It is a powerful and seductive line...
Since it is now official doctrine that the liberal elements within both the Communists and the Kuomintang must stop the struggle between extremists of both parties, the rapid withdrawal of American troops servicing the Peiping Headquarters of the Marshall mission, is tantamount to announcing that further American intervention will merely compromise their efforts. Pulling out now is only a tacit admission of what the Communists have claimed all along, that the U. S. troops were not to help in mediation, but to spearhead the Kuomintang "forces of reaction." The charge will be all the more difficult to meet because some...