tantamount

“Ending user fees is tantamount to starving the agency,” he said.

In that climate, publicly denouncing a man for blasphemy was tantamount to designating a terrorist target, prosecutors will argue.

A Long Beach school security guard who shot a teenager in the back of the head while she was driving away from a crime scene secured a plea that was tantamount to probation last month.

In comments last week, he described much of the US-Mexico border as tantamount to the film World War Z.

Sheehy stands by his story, telling the Times that their investigation was “tantamount to falsely accusing him of stolen valor” in a Friday statement.