Sentences with phrase «on momentous»

Everyone likes to let loose and have a good time with family and friends on this momentous holiday, but which cities do it the best?

As a CyanogenMod 10.1 user myself, I'd like to offer my congratulations to the entire team on this momentous achievement.

In other words, judges in theory apply the law, but in practice they make law on momentous issues from school desegregation to abortion to same - sex marriage.

We are proud to congratulate him on this momentous occasion.

I really wished I could be more positive on this momentous 100th blog post for GLF, but some sloppy journalists decided to ruin the party.

During this time, we should reflect on the momentous and hard - won gains we have enjoyed because Rachel Carson stood by her data, despite withering attacks by the chemical companies — and what we stand to lose should environmental regulations be rolled back.

For the last several years, the public discourse on this momentous, multi-layered economic and environmental issue has largely been shaped from the edges — by vocal and histrionic campaigners seeking a blanket ban on the process and industry groups and property owners resisting regulation and bitterly fighting any talk of a ban.

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.

We congratulate Christopher on this momentous occasion, and thank the Blanton for its continued support of his work.

Two Thousand Eleven is a poetic though lucid reflection on this momentous year, with its succession of historical events, with its hopes and fears, and with its spectrum of major implications that is set to mark our future in innumerable ways.

This landmark exhibition will focus on a momentous period in Russian history between 1917, the year of the October Revolution, and 1932 when Stalin began his violent suppression of the Avant - Garde.

On that momentous day, Harley was rescued by Rudi Taylor, an active member of the National Mill Dog Rescue (NMDR).

On this momentous day — we mean the final day of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, of course — it seems appropriate to turn to some dog experts for insight on canines and cupid.

It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites with his family for the first time in three years.

In his concluding remarks, Clinton reflected on the momentous occasion of delivering the final State of the Union address for this century:

And the star recently spoke candidly with Radio Times about her character, as she explained how proud she was to be taking on this momentous role: «I'm the first woman of colour to have a prominent role in the Star Wars legacy.»

Used exclusively by the royal family for speeches on momentous occasions, each of these three priceless microphones dating back to the 1920s and 1930s was Information

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«On this momentous occasion, our state is sending a clear, unmistakable message: every single child — regardless of zip code — deserves a comprehensive kindergarten education,» said Assemblyman James Skoufis.

On this momentous occasion, it is critical that we take stock of what we have done with our freedom, and where we are now as a nation.

In return, if you're moved to leave a comment on this momentous occasion (and really, how could you not be?)

(As I've already mentioned, I think it's absolutely worthwhile to celebrate you as a momma on this momentous occasion, so no judgment here.

«On that momentous day, our leaving was punctuated with a horrendous scene: Angela's little face and hands pressed against the window, tears flowing down her face as we drove off.

On this momentous day in Spurs» history, Kane has also taken the opportunity to explain that photo of him wearing an Arsenal shirt which has been circulating on social media for the past few months...

Proud to have ran 2nd on this momentous occasion.

One month ago, we reported on a momentous landmark: Bitcoin had hit the US$ 10,000 mark.

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It's a milestone heralding momentous social and economic upheavals on the horizon when this behemoth of a generation leaves the workforce and ventures into the territory of senior citizenship.

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.

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

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On the last day of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Beijing, in the Great Hall of the People, United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping toasted to the momentous climate deal they had just struck.

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.

Live, because deciding for or against it was obviously relevant and important; forced, because one either accepted Christianity or refused it — there was no getting out of the decision; and momentous, because, on the chance that God does exist, the decision would have eternal ramifications.

Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $ 35 This is a disturbing and momentous book, for modern political thinking has trouble making sense of the intrusion of irrationality.

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 well.

A less momentous and more recent instance than that of the Nazi experience offers a bizarre variation on the distortions to which Lutheran piety is liable.

That realization gradually worked its way to the very center of Schweitzer's being, and the sign of its victory was the momentous day on the Ogowe River when the concept of «reverence for life» flashed before him.

On the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kinOn the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kinon the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kind.

Similarly, when Intelligent Design asserts that God planted many new phyla on the earth during the Cambrian period, «nothing is thus added to our knowledge» about the mechanism whereby such momentous changes occurred.

Though I could not have known it at the time, a momentous event in my faith journey occurred on a Sunday evening in 1963 in Greenville, South Carolina, when, in defiance of the state's archaic Blue Laws, the Fox Theater opened on Sunday.

Are we in the early stages of a momentous retreat, or are we on the eve of a fresh advance?

It is similar to the position of William James, who saw clearly that there were living, forced, and momentous options facing men and that to sit on a fence waiting for evidence that is not available is to make a negative choice.

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).

All we need to do is notice that since the «Big Bang» occurred fifteen or twenty billion years ago some momentous things have happened, in particular the emergence of life and mind on our planet (and perhaps elsewhere).

Looking back at Brevard Childs's 1970 essay on biblical theology (Biblical Theology in Crisis), one finds it hard to comprehend how powerful the Biblical Theology Movement was in the 1940s and»50s — and how one could have spoken of a crisis of truly momentous importance, one that concentrated so much energy and debate.

When Jewish resistance turned to fierce opposition on the missionary journey to the synagogues of Asia Minor, Paul and Barnabas finally announced to their Jewish compatriots the following decision, which had such momentous results: «It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you.

He believed that William James's «momentous error» had been to justify the exercise of religious belief on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals (who in any case were merely justifying religious believing, not the beliefs themselves), and he understood clearly that those who followed in James's track were (like Dewey) eventually going to lose any grip on religion at all.

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.

On the other hand, Whitehead is of the momentous conviction that thought, in the abstraction, directly adapts itself to nature: «Thus «objectification» itself is abstraction; since no actual thing is «objectified» in its «formal» completeness.

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.