Sentences with phrase «as momentous»

Chief executive of the Northern Land Council Joe Morrison described the day as momentous, adding that the Kenbi land claim had hung over the land like a dark cloud.

After an eventful week, which included a new web portal and the release of a further developed white paper, Encrypgen remains confident that the last week of the token sale will be just as momentous as the company's development to date.

Finally, what wasn't talked about at Build proved just as momentous as all the new stuff.

Thus as momentous as the Bender sale to Reed Elsevier was in 1999, it is by today's measure pretty small potatoes.

Beliefs generally do change when something as momentous as the fall of civilization happens.

The two most spectacular of these were Intipata and Wiñay Wayna, which alone made the journey as momentous as the ultimate destination.

Spearheading the campaign is Grenada Tourism Authority product development manager Kirl Hoschtialek who described the launch as a momentous occasion.

As momentous as this is for you, these are five - year - olds and it will not be as momentous for them.

Indeed, for a film that's being hailed as a momentous comeback for celluloid — a motion picture event in the truest sense — The Hateful Eight is an inauspiciously low - key affair.

If its mythologizing of its environment and male physiques (and fury) never quite leads anywhere as momentous as the early - going suggests, Mikkelsen verifies that, even without saying a word, he's an unnervingly unhinged presence.

As the momentous evening progresses, Cooke creates a strange, off - kilter feel — the hotel's waiters seem to be sniggering at the couple from the other side of their room's door — and shoots the beautiful scenery in sombre tones of blue, grey and stone.

The year 2017 will be remembered as a momentous year for our Company; it is the year when our 50 - acre technology campus consisting of two heavy manufacturing plants and a modern seven - story office building on the Delaware River waterfront in...

«When we look back in 25 years, putting the first embryonic stem cells into humans will prove as momentous as man's first step on the moon.»

These questions can be as wide - ranging as scientific inquiry itself, and as momentous as the effects of the technologies around which our cultures are built.

«What is taking place is not merely a concern with cleaning up our environment but a fundamental shift in consciousness — as momentous as the Renaissance.»

It will be as momentous as the discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in 1781, an event that similarly expanded the scope of the known solar system.

Before people will reform something as momentous as a political election, Urken says, they need to learn about voting methods in less formal situations.

So as a momentous week draws to a close, Theresa has a radically reshaped Cabinet facing some really tough challenges but with some unhappy former members on the backbench.

Despite the «inflection point» status attributed to the 2008 election, 2012 will be just as momentous, if not more so than 2008.

I identify birth as a momentous experience for both the woman / laboring person and their partner (s).

Thus, a natural response to calling Auburn - Georgia a major rivalry is, «Why should I view this as a momentous game when neither fan base considers this its biggest rivalry?»

That's why Durant's decision to join the Golden State Warriors last summer registered as a momentous occasion.

Evans and her husband, Dan, helped to pay the lawyer's fee to register the Mission as a nonprofit, a decision that «felt as momentous as a down payment on a house,» Evans writes in a new book, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (Thomas Nelson).

As a momentous change in the US tax system, the tax reform would have an important longer - term macro impact.

On a bill as momentous as Obamacare repeal, that could be Vice President Mike Pence.

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Back in October last year — as Bitcoin was in the middle of a momentous rise that came to an end months later — he wrote that regulation would pop the growing bubble.

Meeting on the first Monday in October, as required by law, the justices entered the crowded marble courtroom for the first time since their momentous decision in late June that upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

As we await his ruling, munis face a truly momentous time.

Such a momentous matter as the terms of trade in which capital flows between China and the rest of the world might seem more naturally to belong to democratic or governmental institutions.

The 2017 awards will be extra special this year as winners will be announced in time to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, a momentous occasion in the history of a nation built by immigrants...

Apple U. is designed as a place where future leaders of the company can review and dissect momentous decisions in the company's history.

The momentous events of the summer of 1969 have left an indelible mark, not only on the aerospace industry, but on decades of popular culture as well.

In his 1897 essay «The Will To Believe,» James explained why, even in an age of doubt, Christianity remained a real, active option, that is, as he defined it, the subject of a live, forced, and momentous decision.

In June, the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) described its move to allow gay weddings in its buildings as «a momentous step».

As a pastor, you learn a lot about what is going on in your parishioners lives while shaking hands — much of it mundane, but some of it momentous as welAs a pastor, you learn a lot about what is going on in your parishioners lives while shaking hands — much of it mundane, but some of it momentous as welas well.

The Jews faced a difficult and momentous dilemma: either the accumulated miseries of Israel were due to Yahweh's failure as a powerful god, or else he was the one true God who, with righteous judgment, had decreed their national distress as punishment.

Hagee says that previous blood moon cycles occurred at momentous events in Jewish history: In 1493, as Jews were expelled from Spain; in 1949, as the state of Israel was founded; and in 1967 during the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

To think of the agent, an act source that comes - to - be and passes away, as a self - sufficient power would surely be to assign him a self - identity of too momentous a kind.

As you can see, these two dreams are a momentous glimpse into the battle that rages in my heart and mind.

But the greatest lesson to take away from Benedict's momentous act is its fearlessness and expression of freedom» above all, the freedom to follow one's conscience as the Lord leads it, regardless of secular expectations.

They seemed invariably willing to protect him as best they could, to send money when it was needed, to bow before his choices, including that momentous decision not only to marry a Roman Catholic but, after years of ardent atheism, to become one himself.

In speaking of the momentous significance of the fact of death, not only as the finis or clear terminus of earthly life for every man and for the whole race of men, but also as the event which qualifies and colors each life, we introduced in our conclusion the possibility and the necessity of love.

By the late nineteenth century, momentous changes had been brought about as a result of the Industrial Revolution.

As for the train of events which led to the momentous introduction of Israel to Yahweh at the «mountain of God,» the probabilities are strong.

The occasion of his baptism is so momentous that we are jolted all the way back to the first chapter of Genesis, as the separation of earth and sky that God established at creation is refigured.

That momentous transition had at least as much influence on the dynamics of family life and the shape of twentieth - century feminism as the later move to the suburbs.

In the months leading up to the synod, both progressives and traditionalists, and even some seasoned Vatican reporters, were assuring us of the momentous events about to take place: And sure enough, after the synod commenced, as if to fulfill their own prophecies, words and phrases like «revolution,» «earthquake,» and «seismic shifts,» filled their commentaries.

It seems, moreover, on the basis of public opinion polls, that this challenge is already accepted by a majority of our fellow citizens and thus the question of its establishment as a matter of law has not provoked a debate worthy of the momentous issues at stake.

As the official dessert queen, I asked what he wanted me to make for this momentous occasion.

As we mark the 50th anniversary of our Legendary brand, I couldn't be more pleased to make this momentous announcement.»