Sentence examples for monumental risk from inspiring English sources

The full impact of Paul Dacre's decision to run the headline he has described as a "monumental risk" was revealed today by the former home secretary Jack Straw.

BP has been acting like a child that doesn't want to clean up its mess and drags its feet, which is strange, given the monumental risk to the company.

"He's taken monumental risks," the shooter's father told Esquire.

To achieve peace, Israel is asked to take monumental risks, including sacrificing land next to our major industrial areas and cities.

This principle helped guide Jobs to iTunes and the iPod — two projects that were seen as monumental risks when first released in 2001.

Federal agencies seem perfectly willing to open the Arctic landscape to drilling despite the monumental risks to people and wildlife.

Now President Obama is proposing that we open Alaska for drilling, and in doing so, he is taking two monumental risks.

After all, not only did the suspected trader, Kweku Adoboli, work in a 'Delta 1' team - the same desk that the biggest ever rogue trader, Jerome Kerviel of Societe Generale, once plied his trade - but the world continues to reel from a global financial crisis which itself stemmed from a monumental failure of risk management amongst financiers.

This is a mistake marketer's cannot afford to make, all of us need to start now experimenting around this monumental shift, or risk being left behind.

It suggests that tiny improvements can bring about monumental change and risks reinforcing our complacency.

Process understanding for designing, optimizing and scaling of pharmaceutical unit operations is fundamentally important to address concerns of high risks, monumental costs, and productivity decline in the pharmaceutical industry.