The prime minister called the eve of the Games "a truly momentous day for our country".
We have had an equally momentous economic revolution before, brought on by steam power.
Whether the United States should consent to such a deployment is a momentous question.
But church leaders accused them of "reducing a sacred and momentous decision to a media event".
To take this momentous step, the United States had discarded its historic opposition to imperialism.
Next year will be a momentous one for China as it regains control of Hong Kong.
There was something momentous about being able to excite people in that way with our music.
If so, why would Franklin have waited four months to report so momentous an event?
The gearbox has the momentous, latch-in-place action of a switch for an electric chair.
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"I believed this would be a momentous development, as big as Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, " he adds.
And the momentous case against Mr Andreotti may now be much harder to press.
The "path of love" of Pope Francis will be a momentous journey for 1.2 billion Catholics.
"A momentous day, a day like no other in the republic's long history, " wrote R.
This initiative represents a potentially momentous new milestone in market activism by the non-governmental community.
To have momentous cases decided by a five-four vote carries more than a hint of arbitrariness.
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His most momentous decision was to liberalise all prices on New Year's Day 1992.
Something as momentous as this should be endorsed by the Congress of the United States.
As you know, the Framers charged the Senate with a singular and momentous responsibility.
In this momentous week, such matters are far from the minds of Northern Ireland's euphoric peacemakers.
Today, decisions perhaps equally momentous are again being made behind closed doors in official Washington.
On the face of it, this vignette was rather less momentous than Mr Darling's statement.
An even more momentous transformation had begun 47 years earlier in the guerrilla base of Yanan.
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It turns out this is one of the more momentous decisions in the tax world.
Moreover, a lame-duck Senate session is hardly the place for momentous decisions about U.S. national security.
The group's spokesperson on EU fisheries policy, Saskia Richartz, called it "a momentous shift away from overfishing".
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But legislating away the antipathy between cyclists and drivers will surely be a momentous challenge for MPs.
Dr Roger Wilkinson, Chester Zoo's head of field conservation and research, said it was a "momentous moment".
"This is a momentous occasion in the history of the library, " said Librarian of Congress James Billington.
His taking the new job was one of the most momentous events of the entire 20th Century.
If the events are momentous, they still need the impact of years and decades to be judged.
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