Word: tantamount
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...Spanish government seemed to agree. Last week it released Carrillo and his colleagues on bail, temporarily defusing the crisis. In fact, Carrillo's release seemed tantamount to the legalization of his presence in Spain, from which he had been exiled for nearly four decades. He will probably not even be brought to trial before next spring, when Spain will hold its first parliamentary elections since pre-Franco days...
There are only two occasions when the proponents choose to go beyond the discussion of their facility's safety: when they tell us that anyone who knows anything about pathogenic bacteria is in favor of the research proceeding immediately, and when they say that stopping the research is tantamount to being pro-cancer...
...content for the present to deal gently with the church. Though one Vatican spokesman noted that "there is a long road ahead before we can achieve diplomatic recognition and an exchange of envoys," it is generally agreed that the elevation of Hanoi's archbishop to cardinal is tantamount to Vatican recognition of a united and Communist-controlled Viet...
...Democratic presidential primary ballot. It does no good to be a Republican in West Virginia, maybe because if you are a Democrat in West Virginia you are a right-center Democrat, and tantamount to being, say, a Republican in Massachusetts. The only Republican West Virginians elect are governors, and they probably wouldn't have elected Republican Arch Moore governor except that his Democratic opponent was allegedly involved in shady land deals, and a former Democratic governor had just been sentenced to federal penitentiary for bribing a grand jury. They thought he was honest. Arch Moore beat a federal...
...Fanfani and no to us." Zaccagnini and Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer, after a summit meeting last week, were unable to reach an accommodation. Finally, after two full days of heated wrangling, the Christian Democrats decided to ask for a showdown confidence vote in Parliament this week. That was tantamount to admitting that the only recourse was early elections...