We are now faced with a similarly momentous challenge: global warming.
It can lead to the game-changing award of a penalty kick, probably the single most momentous refereeing decision in any sport.
More momentous for citizens on both sides of the strait was the agreement that opened the door to group Tours from the mainland.
It is of moment to her soul and therefore as the worshipful governor says momentous to thine own in whose charge hers is. exhort her to confess the truth!
It is a momentous event, something we will tell our children's children about.
But a year ago America's top economic policymakers faced a momentous decision: whether or not to let Lehman Brothers fail (see article).
I don't have a church bell or a horse, but as I walked home, I did ask each neighbor I passed the same simple but momentous question an had asked me: "have you seen the tree?"
Facing midlife crises, the two make a momentous decision: retaining a third analyst they can see together for couples' therapy.
These things passed through Newland Archer's mind a week later as he watched the Countess Olenska enter the van der Luyden drawing-room on the evening of the momentous dinner.
It would be a momentous feat. But it will also set nerves jangling.
With political unrest spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, 2011 might turn out to be as momentous a year for the global geopolitics of oil as was 1971.
This has already been a momentous week in the Titanic clash between the champions of transparency and the protectors of privacy.
Very soon, as the days grow shorter and the rains return, leaders could face a momentous decision.
The transformational nature of this undertaking that lies ahead is, in my view, not unlike other momentous shifts in the economic history of our world.
Because it was such a momentous occasion, they could not take the chance sounding badly.
He faces momentous and unpleasant choices.
