Sentence examples for a colossal debt from inspiring English sources

As usual, the turmoil centers on Greece, which is in its fifth year of recession and struggling beneath a colossal debt load.

Useless former president Juan Soler had lumbered the club with a colossal debt and two stadiums – one they couldn't sell and one they couldn't afford to build.

Prince Jefri owes a colossal debt to his big brother, who will demand repayment before any of the smaller debtors get theirs.

Aside from the violence that turned its cities into ghost towns and cost the lives of as many as 200,000 people, Algeria endured massive unemployment and a colossal foreign debt, the servicing of which ate up three-quarters of export earnings.That debt has now dwindled almost to nothing, as foreign reserves, boosted by a windfall of cash from oil and gas sales, have mounted beyond $120 billion.

At the same time, she is troubled by news that her brother Michael is leaving the psychiatric hospital where he has lived for the past couple years, and haunted by memories of her eccentric father, Jack, who having "amassed colossal debt" has gone to live in a yurt in Ojai with a new girlfriend.

The migrant influx is a headache for struggling Italy at a time of budget cuts aimed at reducing the country's colossal debt burden.

TOKYO — Japan's newly installed prime minister startled the nation on Friday by warning that it could face a financial crisis of Greek proportions if it does not tackle its colossal debt.

It argues that: [Shetlands] colossal debt burden was worsened after Margaret Thatcher introduced the 'right to buy' for council house tenants.

So it was when Rothschilds financed the Napoleonic wars; so it is today as America strives to extricate itself from the colossal debt engendered by its wars.

Spending cuts, tax rises and pension reforms plus a high-profile campaign against tax evasion have put the public finances back on track to balance the budget next year and, with luck, to start paying down the colossal debt thereafter.

But Walpole also left his heirs burdened with colossal debt and the Old Master collection was put on the market, snapped up by Catherine the Great and shipped to the Hermitage in St . Petersburgin 1779.