And the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, said that Trump's decision to end cost-sharing subsidies was a "monumental affirmation of Congress's authority".
His researches among manuscript collections at Simancas, Venice, Rome, Brussels, and Paris, as well as in England, gave unrivalled authority to the monumental undertaking that took shape between 1863 and 1900.
Hernández is the author of the monumental investigative book "Los Señores del Narco," which she wrote after the authorities did nothing to investigate the kidnap and murder of her father, an engineer.
The paintings -- not unlike those in a current show of Qing portraits acquired from a private collector at the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington -- are monumental in size to stress the godlike authority of their sitters.
Dr. Johnston said in an interview that these previously unrecognized practices underscored the importance of the written word and monumental art in reinforcing the power and authority of Maya kings.
Memorials such as headstones, vase blocks, plaques, tablets, crosses and kerb sets are erected at cemeteries by monumental stone masons independent of the local authority.
Like Kiev a centre of princely authority, Vladimir-Suzdal maintained great continuity with the monumental and aristocratic spirit of Kievan Byzantine art, producing works of exceptional quality.
An urban project, "Skopje 2014", was adopted by the municipal authorities in order to give the city a more monumental and historical aspect, and thus to transform it in a proper national capital.
Though plainly partisan, flung out like ephemeral flares, these papers have since acquired their monumental status as a gloss on the intentions of the founders, with an authority just below that of the Constitution itself.
