Sentences with phrase «equivalent of a death sentence»

In 2013, a few years after returning from the war, the forty - four year old was diagnosed with Stage 4 glioblastoma, a diagnosis that the vice president said his entire family «knew was the equivalent of a death sentence.»

I was convinced I was HIV positive — which in those days was the equivalent of a death sentence.

So the community was stunned when the district leveled the educational equivalent of a death sentence on the school.

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Certainly I hate whichever minister or civil servant in Whitehall came up with the idea of refusing to fund search - and - rescue teams in the Mediterranean — an act which they must have known was equivalent to signing their death sentence.