Sentence examples for colossal effort from from inspiring English sources

"At this level you have to play with a little more ambition than they showed," argued Dallaglio, whose man-of-the-match award rewarded yet another colossal effort from a player who has now won every major honour in the game in the last 14 months.

But at Carrington Park in Bathurst —where the small ground allowed for some old-fashioned shadow creep and the creation of a great atmosphere by a near full house of just 8800 fans (which gave me a hankering for the simpler, less ambitious days of the 1980s) — the Panthers were always a step behind, if not trampled underfoot by a colossal effort from Andrew Fifita.

It brought some stand-out performances from Danny Care, Courtney Lawes, Joe Launchbury and Vunipola to name but a few, and two colossal efforts from Tom Youngs and Ben Morgan off the bench.

Yet their colossal effort was in vain.

"Even to win one of those matches is a colossal effort".

"The boys have put a colossal effort in.

A 76 from Murphy helped him to within three, yet it would need a colossal effort to turn the match around.

So, what gives -- is the public immune to this colossal effort to shape their presidential preferences?

It is by any yardstick a colossal effort to help a country in the name of European solidarity.

An extreme example is the ambitious BlueBrain project, 56 a colossal effort toward building a virtual brain, a large scale simulation on a supercomputer.

To show the kind of collateral damage left by his colossal efforts, there's no need to go further than the pages of The New Yorker, where, in December , 1980 at the time of the film's release, Pauline Kael wrote that its star, Kris Kristofferson, "seems groggy from the effort to act….