The town hall has, however, been so much changed since that period that it is not exactly known in what part of the building this momentous event occurred.
The confession that "no Government can settle the Irish Land Question" was in itself a most momentous admission.
In his first speech at Cork after his election Mr O'Brien sought to rouse the country to a real perception of the momentous issues that were at stake.
Two conditions were essential to the bringing about so momentous a revolution as this, however little the mind of contemporaries may have known it as such.
The details here given are taken entirely from the State papers, stolid and ungarnished, but the tale they tell is momentous and dire in its importance.
If we think of the future of India, and of the influence which that country has always exercised on the East, the movement of religious reform which is now going on appears to my mind the most momentous in this momentous century.
On this particular day, while Ezekiel was discussing the momentous issue with the diligently idle crowd of local Chair Polishers, he got acquainted with a Travelling Salesman from Whopps Corners, Ind.
Mechanically they got up one by one and filed out of the room to hold a secret caucus before announcing their momentous decision.
At length, on May 24th, a day which he ever after looked back upon as the most momentous in his life--the cloud was dispelled.
Then, since the Governor might refuse his pass, the momentous question recurred, "Whether it be the sense and determination of this body to abide by their former resolutions with respect to the not suffering the tea to be landed.
It is not in human power to choose the kind of men who rise from time to time to the supreme control of momentous changes.
How the falsehood was invented, and led up to, and strengthened by newspaper evidence, scarcely interests me in the light of the more momentous issue which affects my future and yours.
He replied in a very few words; he was quite well, he said, but he was engaged in affairs so momentousand engrossing that he could not find time to write at length.
But the law of nations, which is the highest and most important of all laws, and the breach of which is most momentous in its consequences, does not authorize, but forbids, interference.
This latter question cannot now be taken up, till the battle is concluded in defence of other and more momentous principles, for the subversion of which a disciplined army of Destructives has rushed into the field.
In the great centres of population to the eastward it has become a question first in the minds of the people, and before the campaign closes it is bound to become as momentous here.
Such retribution often attends the commission of great crimes; but it seldom happens that effects so momentous for good flow from the infliction which seems intended only for punishment.
No," answered Cecilia coldly: "I come on a moremomentous affair than that: Sir Rupert knows all!
But leaving this, and returning to Whitefield's pastoral epistle, while defective in the momentous point just mentioned, it is in all other respects most admirable.
During this momentous week--the first in the year 1739--Whitefield preached six times, and expounded twice or thrice every night.
It reveals the significant and momentous fact that the work of God was not confined to the Oxford University, for, in his way, young Whitefield was intensely religious before he left his home at Gloucester.
What is his testimony on this grave and momentous subject?
Only this morning has a witness been discovered whose story will, I believe, completely reverse all previous impressions gained during this momentous trial.
But the news you bring is of such momentous character that I must ask for further details, even before extending to you the hospitalities of the legation.
March 1st Mr. Gladstone introduced his momentous bill in a speech of three hours, his first speech as Prime Minister, which was characterized as "calm, moderate and kindly.
His pamphlet on recent commercial legislation had prepared the way for the later momentous changes; and to Mr. Gladstone is due much of the credit for the speedy consummation of the Free Trade policy of the Peel Ministry.
Upon younger men falls the heavy burden of the world, and the solution of the mighty problems of this climax of the most momentous of all centuries.
Early in the morning of June 8th the momentous division took place, and it was found that the Government, instead of getting a majority, was defeated by thirty votes.
The next event in the life of Mr. Gladstone is marked by a momentous change in his political position.
Mr. Gladstone's financial measures for 1862, while not involving such momentous issues as those of the preceding year, nevertheless encountered considerable opposition.
Mementos of this marriage, so momentous for France, are exceedingly numerous along the lower Loire, but this handsome room quite leads them all.
Do not only impress her with the story itself, but let your own explanation be so emphatically serious, that she will deeply appreciate its momentous significance--an occasion to be remembered all her life.
He is the only one qualified to speak with authority on such a momentous subject, and you will never spend a dollar to better advantage.
Some months after this momentous night Mrs. Silas Archer, whose husband had a farm with a big apple orchard in the vicinity of Temple Camp, received a small box containing a little piece of junk and a letter in a sprawling hand.
It never occurred to him thatmomentous consequences might hang upon his thinking.
And one momentous day Tom met the "chief engineer.
There still seems to be something momentous left out of the plan of things.
It's the big drama which even dwarfs the once momentous emotions of love and hate and jealousy.
Such a sign of human feebleness could but endear her to everybody who was aware of themomentous character of the crisis.
And Mr. Denner went to bed with a quiet mind, and the peace which follows the decision of a momentous question.
It is not easy for me to decide a momentous question, but, having decided, I am apt to be firm.
Y: And We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice: P: Then We ransomed him with a tremendous victim.
Y: But the sects differ among themselves: and woe to the unbelievers because of the (coming) Judgment of a Momentous Day!
Y: And remember We rescued you from Pharaoh's people, who afflicted you with the worst of penalties, who slew your male children and saved alive your females: in that was a momentous trial from your Lord.
Say: The knowledge of it is only with my Lord; none but He shall manifest it at its time; it will be momentous in the heavens and the earth; it will not come on you but of a sudden.
But if the cause be trivial and fallacious, the effects aremomentous and solid.
These thoughts, however, gave place to more momentous considerations.
On all momentous occasions, they reasoned and felt alike.
The grave was covered, the spade reposited under the shed, and my seat by the kitchen-fire resumed in a time apparently too short for so solemn and momentous a transaction.
One afternoon this girl dressed herself in the gayest manner and seemed making preparations for some momentous ceremony.
My design was toomomentous to be readily relinquished.
Meanwhile nothing was obtained from him but general information, that his place of abode was Chester county, and that some momentous engagement induced him to hazard his safety by coming to the city in the height of the epidemic.
Many facts of the most secret and momentous nature were alluded to.
His perplexities gradually disappeared, and he continued:-- I have promised to relate the momentous incidents of my life, and have hitherto been faithful in my enumeration.
It is not only when the occasion is urgent and the topic momentousthat her eloquence is rich and flowing.
Venizelos, when faced with the irrevocable, felt the need to weigh his position, to reconsider whether the momentous step he was taking was necessary, was right, was prudent?
The proposition, contained in these amendments, has relation to the most momentous and most elevated of our legislative obligations.
The crisis is vastly momentousand trying, and attended with circumstances, both from within and from without, which strongly call for decision in the Legislature.
Great and momentous objects, and worthy of a great and magnanimous nation!
He agreed with gentlemen that this was a momentous crisis; that the country was in a situation of extreme difficulty and danger.
I will premise, the remarks which I shall offer are intended solely to justify the vote which it is my intention to give on this momentous occasion.
The impressions on me are strengthened by such an evidence, that my faithful endeavors to discharge my arduous duties have been favorably estimated; and by a consideration of the momentous period at which the trust has been renewed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "momentous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
