We are aware that this monumental task requires equally monumental efforts and broad partnerships.

The challenges facing both are monumental.

(2001) Albert Charles Smith (1906 1999) a monumental botanist.

By this standard, the war in Iraq was a monumental failure.

The tasks that faced Yeltsin when he attained power in 1991 were monumental.

Each time, monumental changes in the region s politics, particularly its alliances, quickly followed.

We now have before us the monumental task of ensuring implementation and tangible outcomes.

Knitting together 17 disparate economies, cultures, and institutions was a monumental undertaking, fraught with risk.

At the time, the stadium was a masterpiece of engineering, and its inauguration was monumental.

That earthquake could prove monumental, depending on how Hezbollah responds to any indictment over Hariri's murder.

But the scale of the disaster facing Japan is so monumental that it demands our help.

Venice fortified Padua with new walls, built between 1507 and 1544, with a series of monumental gates.

Considering both the monumental spending and the national team's heartbreaking performance, Brazilians had ample cause to be disturbed.

Indeed, the US is seen as practically complicit in inciting a monumental reversal of Islam s fortunes, the Shia revival.

The Romans also built a monumental staircase adorned with mosaic patterns that leads to the top of the podium.

Where Stalin had his barbarous yet monumental drive to industrial modernization, Putin boasted of making Russia a great energy power.

It puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

Most spectacularly, the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek placed the monumental caption IT S GLOBAL WARMING, STUPID over a picture of flooded Manhattan.

Either she will succeed with it, or it will become a monumental disgrace for Germany and a disaster for the German economy.

The Club of Rome s monumental book The Limits to Growth came out in 1972, with a picture of the earth on its cover.

If they succeed in bringing about a national renewal, Bhutto, a monumental political figure in Pakistani history, will not have died in vain.

Yet the two leaders and their administrations must overcome monumental challenges as their countries strive to reach the next stage of their development.

Treasury s refusal to do so is a monumental blunder that risks a general meltdown, the consequences of which will extend far beyond America s shores.

Like the previous generation, many gifted young researchers know that they must work hard to meet monumental challenges and make valuable contributions to society.

Golden Rice offers the potential to make contributions to human health and welfare as monumental as the discovery and distribution of the Salk polio vaccine.

For years, both the US and Europe engaged in a monumental exercise in political hypocrisy, preaching the gospel of democratic change while supporting Arab tyrants.

In their monumental research on centuries of public and sovereign debt, the normally very careful Reinhart and Rogoff made an error in one of their working papers.

Great Polish painter Jan Matejko devoted his monumental art to the most significant historical events on Polish lands, along with the playwright, painter and poet Stanisław Wyspiański.

Rather, they were likely a group of autonomous polities that shared a common elite culture, as seen in the rich iconography and monumental architecture that survive today.

Communist China has experienced a monumental capitalist revolution in the last two decades, with an economy that is now six times bigger than it was 20 years ago.

It is set in Bamyan, a province in central Afghanistan, against the backdrop of the sixth century monumental statues of standing buddhas that the Taliban destroyed in 2001.

It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive cultural and monumental heritage and historical co existence of Christian, Muslim and Jewish cultures.

It has been observed that corruption, though a universal problem, is more present in some societies than in others, causing monumental devastation on the development efforts of these societies.

The ceremonial architecture at Quiriguá is quite modest, but the site's importance lies in its wealth of sculpture, including the tallest stone monumental sculpture ever erected in the New World.

In the midst of political, social, and institutional vulnerabilities, as well as the vast damage to human and physical infrastructure that are the legacy of conflict, this is a monumental task.

The Conference, therefore, fully endorses the consensus based Final Document of 2000 Review Conference which continues to be recognized by the vast majority of the international community as a monumental achievement.

Moreover, we underestimate the younger generation of scientists. Like the previous generation, many gifted young researchers know that they must work hard to meet monumental challenges and make valuable contributions to society.

This is the face on Mars, which was in 1976, where there was a whole movement to get NASA to photograph that area because people thought this was monumental architecture made by Martians.

The Ministers declared that the imbalances and inequalities found in global trade and the debt burden still constitute monumental hindrances to genuine social, economic and political progress in developing nations of the world.

Though it compensated for the underwhelming architecture of the Wilkins building, Barry's new wing was disliked by Gallery staff, who considered its monumental aspect to be in conflict with its function as exhibition space.

Stressing again the monumental importance of the event for the Palestinian people, for the peoples of the region and for the international community as a whole, as it comprises significant religious, historical and cultural dimensions,

China s rapid economic growth, juxtaposed against America s problems in Iraq and Afghanistan, monumental debt, and role in sparking the global financial crisis, have changed global power realities and global perceptions of those realities even more.

Indeed, the protagonists of caste politics and caste based public policy simply cannot validate their assertions, offering only small sample surveys that can be grossly misleading in the context of a huge country characterized by monumental diversity.

The gap between the respective qualities of China s economic and scientific elites, on the one hand, and its ruling political elites, on the other, is simply too monumental and still growing for stability to be taken for granted.

Such events reinforce the tendency of modern political regimes, dictatorships as well as democracies, to measure themselves in monumental building projects giant new stadiums, gargantuan shopping malls, huge conference halls which are sometimes needed, but often are not.