tantamount

"To some people, this is tantamount to, 'we own this bit of the moon, we're going to operate here and and you can't come in'," he explains.

The UN had previously warned that the forcible transfer of an occupied territory's civilian population is "tantamount to ethnic cleansing".

However the Socialist Party says it wants a total break from Macron's pro-business policies as well as a repeal of the pension reform - which would be tantamount to undoing the president's legacy.

“A small uptick in cow’s milk intake is, obviously, not tantamount to the calamities that have been unleashed over the last six weeks in American politics,” wrote Vox’s Marina Bolotnikova back in March.

"To some people, this is tantamount to, "we own this bit of the moon, we're going to operate here and and you can't come in"," he explains.