Sentence examples for Momentous phase from inspiring English sources
A "historic" event — in the words of some experts and observers — finished its first momentous phase in Cambodia a few days ago, but it doesn't seem as though many in the United States know or care.
On one side it emphasizes an internal mobility of peoples and cultures, which at a momentous phase in the history of civilization brought about such an interchange of beliefs and ideas as that, for example, which left for the contemplation of later generations a characteristic emblem of the eastern Mithraic cult in north Britain below the Roman Wall.
Mr. Patrick, an international consultant on business ethics, was giving us a concise yet profound glimpse into a momentous phase of his own life that set the course towards his becoming one of the most successful stockbrokers, only to be arrested by the Interpol and spend four years in rigorous imprisonment, followed immediately by a divorce and loss of custody of his two kids.
She reached the momentous decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022 after discussing it one night over red wine with her husband, Joachim Sauer, a physicist and university professor, at their apartment in central Berlin, according to people who spent many hours debating the issue with her but spoke only on the condition that they remain anonymous.
THIRTEEN months after the momentous Oslo agreement on a phased process toward peace was signed in Washington on Oct. 19, 1994, a suicide bomber blew up a bus in Tel Aviv.
In Erikson's view, people moved through what he described as a "life cycle" of eight stages, including midlife — "a phase," Cohen explains, "as momentous in character-building as adolescence".
And we don't want to miss that, because each new phase is just as special, just as momentous as the last.
"Politics entered one of those febrile nervous phases in which events seem to be moving towards some momentous but unknowable climax almost independent of the wishes of the actors," she wrote in her memoir, "The Downing Street Years".
It's a momentous announcement, and it comes almost exactly a year after Ringling Bros. agreed to phase out its elephant acts in traveling circuses.
