Sentence examples for momentous case from inspiring English sources

"This is a momentous case," Ms. McClure said.

But in America, potential embarrassment is insufficient ground for denying the public access to vital court records in such a momentous case.

But this week, the court drew back the curtain slightly, declassifying the fact that Yahoo was the company that fought the court in a momentous case in 2008.

This week, the Court will hear arguments in a momentous case, King v. Burwell, a challenge to a central feature of the Affordable Care Act.

The case joined a crowded docket that already included challenges to Mr. Obama's signature legislative achievement, the 2010 health care overhaul law, and a momentous case on how Texas will conduct its elections.

In this momentous case, Justice Kennedy sided with Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices Scalia, Thomas and O'Connor to overturn the Florida Supreme Court, ruling that there could be no further counting of Florida's disputed votes.

He speculated that the Supreme Court would accept only that case and delay accepting the one from California especially because this past term, he said, had been so exhausting, involving health care and other momentous cases.

Instead, presented with one of the most momentous cases in its history, the court produced a crimped ruling that may one day serve as the defining legacy of the Rehnquist court.

Issues like the behavior of a trial judge even in momentous cases– rarely make it onto its docket.

Roberts, the new chief justice who was a generation younger than Scalia, deferred to him and often assigned him to write the court's opinion in momentous cases.

To hear Mr. Suharto's name read out in a criminal case was a momentous event in a country where for three decades he was synonymous with untold wealth and unassailable power.