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In fact, as late as 1840, crossing the surf can be described as “an expression equivalent to `entering or leaving India,' as a person is never supposed to venture across this tremendous barrier of the Coromandel coast, unless on such momentous occasions.”
The NYT makes the biggest, using its lead editorial to laud him, saying, "It was a momentous act of duty to lob this hand grenade of truth into Ms.
So select is the narrator in his use of such suspensions that the simple variation of the placement of a clause in two otherwise almost identical statements can be momentous.
The Washington Post also fronts campaign jousting by the two but goes instead with a momentous Labor Department decision: Companies that allow employees to work at home will be held responsible for federal health and safety violations that occur at the home work site.
This tiny patch of land, 63 sq miles in area, is at the center of a momentous turning point in history, for it was here that Christopher Columbus first made landfall in the New World, on 12 October 1492.