Sentence examples for Monumental question from inspiring English sources

The fourth plinth in a corner of Trafalgar Square has posed a monumental question ever since it was built in 1841.

That monumental question has been percolating here for about 15 years, but only lately has the extraordinary prospect that this old, dense city will suddenly gain a 30-acre swath of green land smack in its center begun to seem dauntingly, thrillingly real.

Consider what is on their plate, in this time period, in addition to deciding the monumental question of war: the entire federal budget.

When he was confronted with the difficult decision of the U.S. entering the war at a time when the public was solidly against it, he took 10 days off, sailing around the Caribbean on a navy ship to think through this monumental question.

To think through the monumental question of whether America should enter the war, rather than putting out photos of himself and his team with their sleeves rolled up pulling all-nighters, FDR announced that he would instead be taking a 10-day vacation, sailing around the Caribbean on a navy ship.

It is a monumental question, one that itself can have profound consequences including whether the Speaker of the House, who is constitutionally also the gatekeeper of presidential Impeachment, truly believes that the President holds values that may make him unfit as the leader of a free and democratic nation.

From the moment the two towers collapsed on Sept. 11, engineers and other experts have been struggling to answer the monumental questions of exactly why and how the buildings, designed to sustain a jet impact, completely collapsed.

Of course, Reich is far from the first modern composer to tackle the monumental questions of the day: Hindemith in Neues vom Tage, a satire of 1920s Weimar life, and Kurt Weill in Die Bürgschaft, both tackled social issues.

The debate that began in the Senate last week is centered not on the fundamental and monumental questions of whether and why the United States should go to war with Iraq, but rather on the mechanics of how best to wordsmith the president's use-of-force resolution in order to give him virtually unchecked authority to commit the nation's military to an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.

How can one case answer these two monumental questions?

The SNP is forecast to take Scotland on 7 May in a monumental shift that will question whether the word "United" is left with any meaningful place alongside "Kingdom".