Sentence examples for monumental proportion from inspiring English sources

"We are facing a crisis of monumental proportion," said Jerry I. Speyer, chief executive officer of Tishman Speyer Properties, who with David Rockefeller, the former chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, is helping organize the lobbying effort.

The marriage provided the impetus for Meyer to create what he described as "an enduring monument," a country house of monumental proportions.

This turned out to be a job of monumental proportions.

We're facing a crisis in care of monumental proportions.

In short, a love of truly monumental proportions.

"This could have been a tragedy of monumental proportions.

"This was a tragedy of just absolute monumental proportions," Mr. Jones said.

Then came the finale — another cuff blow-up of monumental proportions.

The last time New York City welcomed Boredoms, an experimental rock band from Osaka, Japan, the encounter took on monumental proportions.

Pearl Cleage, a prominent black Atlanta playwright, however, called the house "an insult of monumental proportions to African-American people".

In either form, it will be a work of monumental proportions, a statement etched upon the land.