momentous change
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmomentousandchange
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momentous
adjective
uk/məˈmen.təs/us/məˈmen.t̬əs/
very important because of effects on ...
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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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(Definition ofmomentousandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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First, we advance our understanding of public opinion about the economy by examining its particular characteristics in political economies undergoingmomentouschange.
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This is amomentouschange, and one which both parties support in principle.
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It will not be for us but for historians of the future, to describe thismomentouschangein our fortunes.
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That is how we got what we got, and we still have it after more than sixty years—over sixty years—of massive,momentouschange.
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I can find no indication anywhere that the country is really in favour of thismomentouschange.
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It will be amomentouschangeif and when we do.
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That would be amomentouschangein a way, but we would know that the experiment would last only four weeks.
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What is the justification for this reallymomentouschange?
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We are making amomentouschangein religion.
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That is far from amomentouschange.
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That is amomentouschange.
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Agriculture — left in a vacuum by the absence of ministerial advice—is entering a period ofmomentouschange.
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Over the years we have been seeking to try to accommodate thismomentouschangein our constitutional position to our older and, some of us believe, better practices.
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Given these and other momentous changes, one would expect to find "culture" very carefully and sensitively defined in the literature on cultural competence.
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Indeed, the economic backdrop to liberalization can be traced in the momentous changes in the international political economy after the 1960s and especially during the 1970s.
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The contradictions of the momentous changes of the 1980s and 1990s were largely ignored in favour of a conservative, nostalgic and myopic view of the past and the present.
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Momentous changes are in prospect about the way in which we are to be ruled.
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In fact, the average rise or fall in the global temperature underlying these momentous changes may be very small.
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I believe that we could achieve the most momentous changes in the prospect for our world.
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I think that is the position because people realise that we are on the verge of momentous changes.
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