Sentence examples for while momentous from inspiring English sources
However, if history is a guide, it would suggest that Chief Justice Warren's time on the court, while momentous, was not at all what Eisenhower had hoped for.
There's a lovely light-handed feel to some of the scenes and that works surprisingly well, reminding us that while momentous (and often terrible) things are happening, people are also going about their daily lives and dealing with small worries and woes.
The Consumer Insight Group of MindShare, another large giant media services agency owned by WPP, concluded in a report released internally on Feb. 28 that while "momentous events do disrupt the consumer mindset and the media environment in the short term," there could be a "return to something approaching normalcy in a few weeks".
Once in a while, however, momentous shifts are possible.
While these momentous changes were being debated and adopted, the ordinary work of state and nation had to continue amid conditions of almost unprecedented difficulty.
I'd just finished an interview with Al Gore and it was hard to shake the melancholy feeling that the man who should be president was spending a stormy night in Midtown Manhattan while the momentous world events he should be shaping were careering in all sorts of dangerous directions.
While making momentous decisions on which the fate of the nation truly rested, Lincoln never let himself forget the human consequences of those decisions: "No president ever visited so many sick or wounded men.
While obviously momentous in its own right, Obama's eventual victory is ancillary to his impact on our political culture.
He struck out 10 batters while recording his momentous feat.
While hardly as momentous as the Syria vote, the nomination of Mr. Snowden carries great symbolic weight.
It is possible that Mitchell truly proposes a bleak Gnosticism, a vision of the universe in which humans, poor bone clocks, suffer and strive, to little effect, in a cursed material world, while all the momentous stuff is going on in a restricted soul world of true initiates.
