Sentence examples for colossal drain from inspiring English sources

While many French have called for tightened restrictions on illegal immigration, which is widely viewed as a colossal drain on state services, government action against sans-papiers has historically drawn public reproach.

Jean-Christophe Vié, deputy director of the IUCN's Species Program and the founder of the SOS Lemurs initiative, described rosewood logging as a "colossal" drain on the island's resources that deprives lemurs of their natural habitat.

Apart from failing to get a generous tax credit, your tax bill will remain inflated and the whole project will prove a colossal drain to your finances.

"The destruction is colossal".

"There's nothing colossal".

The result is colossal.

CHARLEY: Colossal!

Big! Colossal.

"Expectations: colossal.

It's colossal.

They were colossal".