Sentence examples for colossal crime from inspiring English sources

But the Treaty of Sèvres, designed to punish the Young Turks for this "colossal crime" – now called "genocide" – was never implemented.

As he described it, 'Thanks to poison and the gun they are rapidly following the fate of the Tasmanian nation which was completely destroyed in a period of about 40 years, constituting the most colossal crime our earth has known'".

The destruction of more than 1 million Armenians was declared a "crime against humanity" by Britain, France and Russia in 1915, and these allies formally promised punishment for what a US inquiry at the end of the war described as "a colossal crime – the wholesale attempt on a race".

This is a colossal offense.

The force has invested in dealing with heavy drug users (who can commit colossal numbers of crimes), offering clinics for testing.

Despite Adriatic Institute's warnings about Croatia, the EU closed its eyes to organized crime and colossal corruption in Croatia.

Yet, in September, the Tamil Tigers branded the attack in New York "a colossal human tragedy" and "brutal crime".

And though there has been a steady, general decline in the crime rate, the colossal investment in our prison system has not truly paid off in return.

Crime is as rare as the colossal steaks.

None of this is to shirk the fact that Todd Carney is a colossal dunce but if that itself is the crime then a lot of other players should be shifting uneasily right now.

As Kenya's Daily Nation put it in an editorial: "Leaving the ICC with no credible mechanism for justice for mass crimes… would be an error of colossal proportions".