Adjective : the world-shaking effects of an international clash.    From Dictionary.com. 

It didn't have to do much, though, to be world-shaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Weigant: Obama's New Theme: A Sputnik Moment] Reference

"That's a world-shaking discovery," the publisher said dryly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]

Strap yourselves down folks – we have some world-shaking news for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany Murphy Not Really Engaged Any More] Reference

Here he remained inactive while world-shaking events were happening, while.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference

Now, you call Bill Clinton in your book a monstrous, world-shaking failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2003] Reference

Allow me to read the telegram which brought this world-shaking information.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Scientist and the World He Lives In] Reference

Most seemed to think it wasn't world-shaking but was generally entertaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fable 2] Reference

Important, world-shaking question: what's the worst theme song in TV history?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

This is not as world-shaking as it seems if you give philosophers some credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victor Stenger: The Grand Accident] Reference

The monstrous, world-shaking failure was leaving the country vulnerable to 9/11.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2003] Reference

I was startled at how un-dramatic Stoppard manages to make world-shaking events.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegant Variation:] Reference

Google wants to be becomes an information utility which is world-shaking if true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Online storage sucks but… « Squash] Reference

"We haven't got as far as making such world-shaking decisions as that," he grinned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

They were not as world-shaking as Spin, but I enjoyed the sci-fi/mystery noir style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice of the Fans: What Book Have You Recently Read That's Good Enough To Recommend To a Friend?] Reference

The discovery that light has a finite speed was to prove of world-shaking importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [RELATIVITY] Reference

I have always greatly admired Robert Hughes for his awesome and world-shaking The Fatal Shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yatima » 2008 » March] Reference

Iowa alone may have been all the proof we needed that Obama was cruising to a world-shaking win.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

Even if there's no physiological change, the world-shaking experience would surely have an impact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process] Reference

I like little, safe adventures, Jon-Tom, not the awesome world-shaking ones you seem to go in for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time of the Transference]

Clothahump's most sonorous sorceral tone sounded tinny beside the world-shaking whisper of the horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference

And it is a pleasure, of course, to visit Toronto, where a world-shaking decision has been made recently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles and Approaches] Reference

Perhaps you can inform me of the worthy world-shaking endeavors they have undertaken in any of thoseareas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » What Kind of People Affiliate with Human Rights Watch’s Middle East Division?] Reference

On the face of it not a world-shaking event, yet it could be called the beginning of a revolution in transportation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shipping News] Reference

In each case, the actual event was not world-shaking, but lent itself wonderfully to media embroidery and exaggeration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Z. Shore: Nitwit News] Reference

While sharing Washington as a common adversary, their oil-rich countries have the makings of a world-shaking energy bloc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Solomon: Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran] Reference

As is common these days on the networks, no criticisms or contrary concerns were intergrated into this world-shaking interview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danny Schechter: As We Wait For Christmas, Wall Street Salivates for Its Bonuses] Reference

It was the most dynamic, interactive article about a world-shaking, revolutionary, life-changing electronic marvel I have ever seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's The Real Karmapa?] Reference

And recently, in the thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok, we have entered another stage in the world-shaking development of atomic energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Creativity isn't about producing world-shaking pieces of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someday Syndrome | Change my life!] Reference

I reveal the incredible world-shaking evil plot around comment #6 here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog] Reference

Hence the potentially world-shaking decision that will be made here, probably within two years.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

And times in the 20-to-50-minute range for processing 45G of data are not exactly world-shaking; check out the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ongoing] Reference

China also has its own troubles, which, given its size, would have world-shaking implications if they got out of hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

If you want to advocate the newest and most radical, world-shaking political system in history, try reading the U.S. Constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [naplesnews.com Stories] Reference

More than a thousand are recorded every year, and twenty-nine world-shaking earthquakes occurred in the three years ending with 1901.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

Heck, the kid is 14 years old; even getting to the golf course without world-shaking drama is enough of a task for most girls her age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference