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Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

I waited until evening to make my momentous call to Agent Brennan.

It is noticeable that, while he held his office in the curia through that momentous period of fifty years which witnessed the Councils of Constance and of Basel, and the final restoration of the papacy under Nicholas V., his sympathies were never attracted to ecclesiastical affairs.

His mind, however, was also busy with the momentous problem of gravity.

But these years were momentous for Judaism.

The year 1494 is a momentous one in the history of Italian politics.

These decisions led to momentous results.

His experiments, in the same year, on the photographic registration of stellar spectra, marked an innovation of a momentous character.

Into the complex history of this momentous age it is impossible to go in any detail.

In these circumstances Gladstone arrived at a momentous decision.

Strong in their conviction of the truth of Aristotelianism, the Arabians carried out their logical results in the theological field, and made the distinction of necessary and possible, of form and matter, the basis of conclusions in the most momentous questions.

But these accusations only dramatize the moral and political confusion into which, over this momentous question, the Arabs have fallen.

We are also planning to present a truly momentous Crystal Mark.

Kat and Martin also signed the lease for the new building in Camden which was a pretty momentous occasion.

What can have been the trouble which produced effects so momentous?

On a personal note, scoring a goal at the Festival football match was a particularly momentous occasion for Tessa.

Disarmament Diplomacy Issue No. 18, September 1997 Editor's Introduction September's issue reviews a hectic and potentially momentous month.

And, Mr McAvoy continued, the proposed changes will prove more momentous than any education policy enacted since 1944.

Conversely, developments that can seem momentous as they unfold can come to be regarded as less so with the passage of time.

The decision to leave home felt momentous, and the drive to California took a week.

In the authentic ambiance it was a momentous occasion to look back to the future.

This was a momentous occasion, for hitherto only eleven prelates and twenty-three magnates had attended.

The controversy was a momentous incident in the Jewish life of the period, and though there is insufficient evidence against Eybeschiitz, Emden may be credited with having crushed the lingering belief in Sabbatai current even in some orthodox circles.

Luther was thus roused to publish his momentous ninety-five theses on the subject of indulgences on October 31, 1517 (see Luther) .

His son, Leif Ericsson, and others of his followers were concerned in the discovery of the North American coast (see Vinland), which, but for the isolation of Iceland from the centres of European awakening, would have had momentous consequences.

He failed to bring out the momentous fact that up to the i 2th century the empire was the bulwark of Europe against the East, nor did he appreciate its importance in preserving the heritage of Greek civilization.

For instance, the well-known description (in chap. xlvii.) of the preposition " in " occurring in a theological dogma as a " momentous particle which the memory rather than the understanding must retain " is taken directly from the first Provincial Letter.

Yet the momentous change which finally crushed out Congregationalism, by substitution of legal coercion for moral suasion as the final means of securing unity, came relatively late in the history of the ancient Catholic Church.

Amid all the momentous changes the part of Ali was a difficult one.

Still more momentous was the Spartan action in crushing the Olynthiac Confederation (see Olynthus), which might have been able to stay the growth of Macedonian power.

As in his active career he had wrought organic changes in the ordering, direction and control of fleets, so by his historic studies, pursued after his retirement, he helped greatly to effect, if he did not exclusively initiate, an equally momentous change in the popular, and even the professional, way of regarding sea-power and its conditions.

The battle, which took place at Flodden, or more correctly, at the foot of Brankston Hill, on Friday the 9th of September 1513, is among the most famous and disastrous, if not among the most momentous, in the history of Scotland.

The key, however, is to find a gift that conveys the special meaning of this momentous occasion.

Some parents are so focused on creating their essential newborn layettes and learning about childbirth that they forget important tools that will help document the momentous occasion.

The year 1990 was momentous in the world of photography.

An anecdote about how the couple met or how preparations for the momentous occasion progressed.

Couples should investigate each company thoroughly to determine its reputation and whether or not they feel comfortable working with them for this momentous occasion.

What political aspirations were revived, what other writers were inspired by these momentous events are questions of inference.

The last exilarch of importance was David, son of Zakkai, whose contest with Seadiah had momentous consequences.

The lack of early systematic theological training certainly had a momentous effect upon his development.

Seldom has it happened, since the discovery of the law of gravity, that so profound an impression has been made upon the scientific world at large as by the revelation of the part played by germ-life in nature; seldom has any discovery been fraught with such momentous issues in so many spheres of science and industry.

Thus it was a pagan emperor who in this momentous dispute ultimately determined what was orthodox and what was not;.

It was the Salandra Cabinet which took the momentous decision of bringing Italy into the World War on the side of the Allies, and it conducted the Government of the country during the first months of the campaign more successfully than any of the succeeding war Cabinets.

This is the most satisfactory, as it is the most obvious, explanation of his utter indifference in presence of one of the most momentous problems that ever pressed for solution on an English statesman.

But the establishment of the Frank kingdom, and still more the re-establishment of the Christian empire as the source of law and jurisdiction in Christendom, had momentous influence on the history of the Italianized Lombards.

Very soon afterwards he must have begun work upon his plans and models, undertaken during an acute phase of the competition which the task had called forth between German and Italian architects, for another momentous enterprise, the completion of Milan cathedral.

The six years of his residence in the West had given Athanasius the opportunity of displaying a momentous activity.

On the other hand a third project of marriage alliance which Henry carried out in 1503 was destined to be consummated, and to have momentous, though long-deferred, results.

Its results were momentous and durable in proportion as they were the outcome of causes which had been working long.

Just as the phenomena of sudden conversion, complete revolutions of character occurring to outward appearance in a momentary space of time, are no valid argument against determinism - they may be due to the sudden emergence of elements in life and character long concealed - so what looks like the orderly and necessary development of a character growing and exhibiting its activity in accordance with fixed laws may in reality be due to innumerable secret struggles and momentous decisions, acts of choice of which only the results are outwardly apparent.

The momentous consequences of this step belong to the next section, and it now remains for us to state the condition of the church and society in the century preceding the Anglo-Norman invasion.