Word: tantamount
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Equally acute is the ethical problem regarding the proposed recipient of the heart. Obviously he is close to death, or such drastic surgery would not be contemplated. Yet his own heart must be cut out, which is tantamount to killing him, while he still retains vitality enough to withstand the most Draconian of operations. If the transplant should fail, he will certainly die. Thus the surgeons will, in effect, have killed him (as they might in any major operation), no matter how lofty their motive in trying to prolong his life and make it more satisfying...
...construction of a 23-story state office building for Harlem. But New York, typically at odds with itself, is also building two 110-story skyscrapers for the World Trade Center in the Wall Street area. That is the kind of act, says Urban Critic Wolf von Eckardt, that is tantamount to "ur-bicide"-city killing...
...list social-climbing publicity and sports flackery alongside corporate public relations under "public relations" is tantamount to lumping a circus seal with Sir John Gielgud as "entertainers...
...their other businesses. In the eyes of their publishers, the Boston newspapers were powerful and tightly-held weapons in a constant battle for control of the city and the state. Each paper was the representative of a particular force in the city; to give up a paper was therefore tantamount to ending that force's influence in Boston, or so the publishers seemed to reason...
...case stemmed from his presence on the University of Mississippi campus during 1962 riots over the admission of Negro James Meredith. During those riots, the Associated Press reported, Walker had "assumed control of the crowd" and "led a charge of students against federal marshals." Alleging that that was tantamount to accusing him of inciting to riot (on which charge a federal grand jury refused to indict him), Walker sued A.P., won a judgment...