Sentence examples for colossal expense from inspiring English sources

Instead of being a mute, London should be a candid friend to the US about the dangers of Bush's enthusiasm for the colossal expense of National Missile Defence.

"Imagine the colossal expense of constructing the kind of endless higgledy-piggledy encampment full of prostitutes and pedlars and what have you, in honour of one of the biggest thugs and creeps in world history, " says the chopped-up mayor.

Verizon has halted FiOS expansion because the colossal expense of tearing up streets to lay fiber-optic cable, or even stringing cable on utility poles, made replicating the cable company's local network uneconomic except in the densest urban areas.

How many times have we sat through boring 2D movie scenes depicting writing on a perfectly flat wall, and prayed that one day someone would go to the colossal expense of filming some writing on a wall using the latest 3D technology?

For Catherine, these entertainments served a political purpose that made them worth their colossal expense.

After a period of neglect during the 18th century, George III and George IV renovated and rebuilt Charles II's palace at colossal expense, producing the current design of the State Apartments, full of Rococo, Gothic and Baroque furnishings.

China, it said, would enhance its stability far more if it were to turn its "colossal expenses on stability maintenance" to improving people's livelihoods instead.

Rather, he is mesmerised by their oppressors, the International Olympic Committee IOCC) and Fifa, self-perpetuating cabals of Swiss-based bureaucrats, who live fat on six-figure salaries, colossal expenses and unbounded arrogance.

From the Cayenne Diesel S then one can only assume that the average Chelsea Tractor owner wants to cross Europe at colossal speed and at great expense, navigating occasional muddy obstacles with their three children in the back complete with a vast amount of supplies and a fleet of Bugaboo buggies in the huge boot.

To realize his colossal vision, Tati built, at great expense, a reduced but still large-scale mockup of a modern international-style city.

They found that efforts to fight malnutrition and disease would save many lives at modest expense, whereas fighting global warming would cost a colossal amount and yield distant and uncertain rewards.That conclusion upset a lot of environmentalists.