Sentence examples for colossal relief from inspiring English sources

But for all Mr Hu's talk of the victory won by China's colossal relief efforts, some survivors are deeply unhappy.China's immediate response to the earthquake won international praise for its speed and openness.

Don't get me wrong, it has been a colossal relief to learn I have not missed anything important, although, of course, I was sorry to hear from my daughter that John Prescott had got in again.

Three days later it has become apparent that the storm was also extraordinarily deadly; the survivors will require an colossal relief effort just to stay alive.Before the typhoon landed, meteorologists had detected wind speeds of 313kph (194mph) near the centre, gusting up to 378kph, making it one of the strongest storms ever recorded.

To the colossal relief of everyone in St Helens and many beyond, Keiron Cunningham has been told his jaw is not broken and encouraged to believe his career had not come to an end on a nondescript Saturday night in Wrexham.

Between this date and his death in 1654, Algardi produced some of his most celebrated works, among them the seated statue of the pope now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (1645) and a colossal marble relief of the Meeting of Attila and Pope Leo in St. Peter's (1646 53), which influenced the development and popularization of illusionistic reliefs.

As late as 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called for freedom to ring out from Georgia's Stone Mountain, it was the site of a colossal bas-relief monument, still in progress, to the heroes of the Confederacy — and thus a regular meeting place for the Klan.

They are art deco-inspired palaces with colossal columns, friezes, mosaics, bas-relief, chandeliers, bronze statues and glossy marble floors.

The following year, Firth and Lauer uncovered a limestone relief slab and a colossal red granite head of Userkaf, thus determining that he was the pyramid owner.

A German Finance Ministry spokesman poured cold water on the idea of any discussion of relief of Greece's colossal public debt, something that Greek negotiators insist must be on the table.

The aid response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was unprecedented for a natural disaster, with a colossal $6.25bn donated to a central UN relief fund assisting 14 countries.

On the island of Delos a pillar supports a colossal phallus, the symbol of Dionysus; phallus reliefs on buildings on such sites are also believed to have been apotropaic devices to ward off evil.