Sentence examples for monumental record from inspiring English sources

Secondly, it is Israel's supporters who persistently "single out" the country by arguing that its "unique" situation excuses its monumental record of violations of human rights norms, international law and UN resolutions.

Termed 'the Abbey Road of the North', Strawberry was founded by four local young musicians whose band, 10cc, would go on to have monumental record sales throughout the seventies.

"Phil Spector said he wanted to make a monumental record, big and symphonic, and that Ike and Tina Turner were going to cut it.

Ford promised that the "monumental record of the President's Commission will stand like a Gibraltar of factual literature through the ages to come".

After their first monumental record came their first major label album, The Return of the Space Cowboy, and subsequent hazy hit with a similar name, "Space Cowboy".

When Dumpson died in 2012 at the age of 103, the New York Times asked Dinkins to comment for the obituary, and with characteristic New York flair, the mayor summed up this great but unassuming man's monumental record: "We look back on it now and say, 'Damn, he was a hell of a cat' -- and indeed he was".

"To bring together those four monumental records of Western culture in a single place, and in the New World, is of international significance".

They also barred him from completing a monumental recording of the complete Haydn Masses, to be released on the Naxos label this month.

Except for the pre-Classical Helladic (Mycenaean) period of the 2nd millennium bce (see below), there was no archival tradition, although the bulk of "monumental" records sometimes approximates the same purpose of massive preservation.

"We were beguiled with the spectre of Joy Division and the Sex Pistols when we were growing up – the Sex Pistols hadn't reformed at this point – and that idea of splitting up after one or two monumental records".

Verano Monumental Cemetery, Record and Research Centre, Piazzale del Verano.