Sentence examples for a colossal error of from inspiring English sources

This was a colossal error of judgment on Skidelsky's part.

Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, has portrayed President Bush's decision to invade Iraq as "a colossal error of judgment".

He said, "This president has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment, and judgment is what we look for in the president of the United States of America.

A retired naval commander was heard telling Russian TV that it had been a colossal error of judgment to accept help from "Nato" and allow the British into an area he said was "stuffed with military secrets".

Senator John Kerry argued last night that President Bush had made a "colossal error of judgment" in invading Iraq, while Mr. Bush belittled Mr. Kerry as a weak leader who would embolden the United States' foes, as the two men offered starkly different views of the war that has dominated this campaign.

He was asked whether his own question about Vietnam to the Senate in 1971—"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"—applied to Iraq, a war which Mr Kerry has described as "a colossal error of judgment".

"It was a colossal error," Samuel Walker, who wrote a history of the A.C.L.U., said of the 1940 decisions.

Senator Kerry said our soldiers and marines are not fighting for a mistake -- but also called the liberation of Iraq a "colossal error".

I have written from the point of view of making what I thought was a colossal error: sex, I say, ruined my life.

Mr. Putin, the former president and current prime minister, has long maintained that Russia made a colossal error in the 1990s by allowing its enormous reserves of oil, gas and other natural resources to fall into private hands.

"He made a colossal error in judgment that he recognizes.