Word: tantamount
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...leading professor of constitutional law, Yale's Alexander M. Bickel, considered the proposition so dicey that he recommended that the committee seek legislation giving the courts jurisdiction in the case. Ervin rejected this course, however, because it would be time-consuming and, as one committee staffer put it, "tantamount to an impeachment proceeding against the President...
...their creation and decide whether it is worth keeping. However, this infanticide, an example of euthenasia, is at present deemed criminal homicide, despite the motive of mercy. Most legal experts dispel claims that passivity is not as culpable as a positive act of murder. They contend inaction is tantamount to action when there is a duty to act, and most moralists would agree...
SUNDAY: Masterpiece Theater. Part 2 of BBC production of Aldous Huxley's social satire "Point Counter Point" features Lucy Tantamount's seduction of Walter Bidlake. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color...
...columns of the Crimson that Spring. The mass meetings held in Harvard Stadium occasioned some of the paper's most thorough reporting, and relations with the Administration deteriorated even more. For a generation of Crimson editors, the act of summoning riot-equipped police to the Harvard Yard stood as tantamount to treason...
ALTHOUGH SUCH A DISTINCTION between morality in consciousness and in action can hardly be as simple as Trilling implies, the whole task he has undertakes--to trace modern shifts in conscious moral categories--eventually makes this study tantamount to a much-abstracted cultural history of the past four centuries in the West. A lesser writer would have floundered under the awesomeness of the ordeal. But Trilling, with extraordinary breadth and specificity of knowledge, manages a plausible coherence in a sea of allusion, exploring and connecting literary, philosophic and psychological territory. He stages, in effect, a dialectical drama of many acts...