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This momentous rise of commercialism was accompanied by large scale import of slaves from far and wide lands.

He returned when she took on the Abner Louima case, which was as momentous in 1999 as the Michael Brown case in Ferguson is now.

It was, of course, a momentous book, in our memory and in its own time.

Thirty years ago this week, Ronald Reagan made perhaps the most momentous decision of his presidency.

Yet a screaming headline on the Drudge Report—SHARPTON WAS FBI MOB RAT—was hardly an auspicious way to begin a momentous week.

It seems amazing that in 2014 that this should be so momentous.

So momentous was the call that Jim Cleve seemed to forget Joan, and she let him go without a word.

Just what the infantry officers should do was a momentous question.

Then immediately followed, as already narrated, the Lewis and Clark expedition with its momentous results.

And it was not at all surprising that such was the case, for it was a most momentous era in our history.

A minute ago they had been occupied in trivial chatter; now they were launched on the momentous topic.