At this writing, the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia are poised to make a momentous decision.
It can only be hoped that such a momentous decision if it is made will be addressed and acted upon in a truly democratic fashion.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Real Threat to Israeli Democracy
It can only be hoped that such a momentous decision -- if it is made -- will be addressed and acted upon in a truly democratic fashion.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Real Threat to Israeli Democracy
It was a momentous decision in policy terms, because unless the replacement government arrives swiftly and commands immediate confidence hopes of investment and growth in Russia this year will be dashed.
Yet Mr Yeltsin had taken a momentous decision in a highly impulsive way, at a troubled time for Russia and a worrying time for a man of his health and temperament.
But church leaders accused them of "reducing a sacred and momentous decision to a media event".
This is the first official government sanction of women's sports in schools, but some Saudis say it is not as momentous a decision as it may seem.
Nicky Oppenheimer, representing the family, said it was a "momentous and difficult decision" to sell the stake.
It can lead to the game-changing award of a penalty kick, probably the single most momentous refereeing decision in any sport.
NATO, there was something rather troubling about an unelected international bureaucrat taking the momentous decision to go to war against a sovereign European state.
Largely overlooked in the publicity associated with the military and arms control dimensions of the NATO summit has been another, possibly even more momentous Bush initiative: the decision to jettison a policy vital to safeguarding militarily relevant Western technologies sought by the Soviet bloc.
Consider just a few of Cap's thoughtful, if provocative, statements on what may well be the most momentous decision now facing American and Western policy-makers: Which side will we be on as democratic forces struggle to transform -- and possibly to terminate -- the Soviet Union in the face of mounting resistance to such changes by the central authorities in Moscow led by Mr. Gorbachev?
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