Sentence examples for monumental sum from inspiring English sources

A starting price of £50bn (including rolling stock) is a monumental sum, one of the biggest investments in 40 years, which is failing to lever private money.

Though not a monumental sum of money, it resulted in a monumental impact.

Now the Medicis, and various popes, kings, shahs and other bigwigs of old, were no angels themselves; they ruled with iron fists, tolerated or fostered corruption and spent monumental sums on, well, monuments.

But when judging where the cuts fall today remember the monumental sums of money politicians knowingly waste in pursuit of popularity.

Like many experts, Smetters is not as concerned about the current deficit and debt as about the long-term obligations that include monumental sums for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as baby boomers age.

He criticized McLachlan's "monumental banality" and summed the album up as "renormalized pop at its most unnecessary".

Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.

Billions of dollars have been exchanged over MDMA and when you add the money that has been exchanged over MDE, 2C-B, 2C-I, 5-MeO-DiPT and other Shugin inventions the sum is truly monumental.

Rather than complain about the meager sum allotted for such a monumental task, they decided to make the most of the funds they were given.

The sum of all this, as ever with Parsifal, was bemusing, intriguing and monumental and, for all its imperfections, a major achievement.

The vast empty plazas seemed to sum up the social alienation of modern society; surrounded by slums, the monumental government buildings of its center exemplified Brazil's deeply rooted social inequalities.