Sentence examples for colossal proportion of from inspiring English sources
In 1974 and 1975, a colossal proportion of British teenage girls clad themselves in ankle-length tartan trousers and tartan scarves, and screamed at deafening volume at the Bay City Rollers, a band from Scotland who you could safely say weren't pushing back the frontiers of songwriting.
In Ghana, this may be the case given that a colossal proportion of insurance funds (about 60%) are obtained from the 2.5% health insurance levy taxed on certain goods and services.
Notwithstanding the belated success of General Petraeus's 2007 troop surge and the concurrent Sunni Awakening, which permitted us to carry out our troop withdrawal with a modicum of decency, the Iraq war represents a geostrategic catastrophe of colossal proportions for the U.S., not to mention a humanitarian catastrophe for Iraqis.
Second world war adventures were the meat and drink of boys' comics when Lichtenstein inflated a scene from one such story to colossal proportions (for a comic) and copied it in paint.
Blankfein bluntly stated that AIG's "failure at risk management was of colossal proportion".
He goes on, "The Internet was abuzz with a tearjerker of colossal proportions, the sinking of the Titanic freshly filmed in Hollywood and soon to be marketed as the greatest maritime catastrophe of all times".
They say cheep cheep, bowwow, meow meow, because they're incapable of imagining an animal of colossal proportions, or the absence of such an animal".
As Kenya's national newspaper, Daily Nation said in a recent editorial, "leaving the ICC with no credible mechanism for justice for mass crimes in sight would be an error of colossal proportions".http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Editorial/Bid-to-pull-out-of-ICC-is-deceptive-ill-conceived/-/440804/3059820/-/s8w8wpz/-/index.html.html
