But in recent years genuine progress has been made in pushing back against this disease, with an estimated 4.3 million lives saved from malaria since 2001, thanks to a colossal global push.
The colossal impact pushed the government and international agencies to the brink of capacity to handle the multiple emergencies.
Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution -- these can lift at a colossal humbug -- push it a little -- weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast.
Not that it matters in a one-party autocracy, but migrants and their urban-raised offspring are not even allowed to vote in the cities.In the decade to 2010 the migrant population living in cities grew by more than 80%, a colossal influx that pushed up the total number of urban residents by some 200m.
Cynics note that while the governor talks of the need for rehabilitation rather than punishment in reforming California's colossal corrections system, his push for $68 billion in taxpayers' bonds is designed, in part, to build two new prisons and provide 83,000 new jail beds.
Others searched for balls in the colossal cypress trees or pushed putts all over the rock-hard greens.
In the intro to Mein Teil, Lindemann dresses up as a chef and pushes a colossal cooking pot on to the stage.
I might pass on the $24 appetizer of three colossal shrimp, which our waiter pushed hard one evening: "I've seen couples divorce over who gets the third shrimp," he asserted.
The moment that bell rang in Montreal, it pushed over a colossal stack of dominoes.
LIKE a colossal snowplow, the last continental glacier to push down into the Poconos halted along a line near where Interstate 80 now runs, molding mountains, scattering boulders and sculpturing the spot that became Lake Harmony, Pa.
