Sentences with phrase «momentous issues»

Still others desire to have the nation turn itself away from King's particular agenda and toward the single momentous issue of possible total annihilation by nuclear war.

I'll be refining the goals and guidelines for Dot Earth shortly and would be eager to hear from you on ways to keep this effort useful, while still considering the full range of reasoned views out there on momentous issues laced with inherent complexity and some unavoidable uncertainty.

Today's young people, as they move into adulthood, will face momentous issues of responding to environmental degradation, climate change and the role of human activity in causing or exacerbating global warming.

In the end, climate change shares characteristics with other momentous issues humans tend to tuck away — mortality being an example.

Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.»

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.

After all, there are plenty of momentous issues that simmer away in plain sight that rarely make news — until they do, in a very big way.

Despite the momentous issues at stake in Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss.