He was still young, only 20, and certainly pleasant to live with, but what would the future hold for him if we didn't take this momentous step?

"This is a momentous step, and it hasn't had the public discussion it should have," she said.

Under our Constitution, impeachment of the President is a grave and momentous step.

Already this has driven the House to take its momentous step to slow the spigots of corporate cash.

These associates said they doubted whether Mr. Starr would ever be prepared to take such a momentous step.

Indeed, we may now be standing on a threshold about to take the momentous step a planetary society takes but once: first contact with another civilization.

In the end, Mr. Clinton decided his presidency had too little time left for such a momentous step as beginning construction of a missile shield.

Economic and monetary union will be a most momentous step.

This weekend's vote is a momentous step at an institution that reveres tradition as much as discipline.

This week Poland has taken the momentous step of joining the European Union.