Sentence examples for colossal state from inspiring English sources

China rode out the 2008 global financial crisis with a colossal state spending and lending programme, equal to 15 per cent of GDP.

They are fed up and want the government to know it.Egypt's colossal state, with its 8m employees and army of security agents, is in no danger at all of losing physical control.

These include not just secularists and Egypt's large Christian minority, but also foreign powers, an irreverent and often hostile press and stubbornly obstructionist chunks of Egypt's colossal state bureaucracy.

"It will be worse if the Spanish people do not take up the challenge of transforming Spain," he says, by which he means bringing its colossal welfare state under control.Mr Roig believes that Spain has "great human capital".

The colossal increase in state security in these Tibetan regions began only in 2006, two years before the Olympics.

While many French have called for tightened restrictions on illegal immigration, which is widely viewed as a colossal drain on state services, government action against sans-papiers has historically drawn public reproach.

So I think it is not a traditional predictable socialist rant, but quite an interesting analysis of the colossal failures of state bureaucracy and how that dehumanises both the providers of that service and the people on the receiving end.

The Russian government is taking halting steps to get a handle on the colossal problem: A state agency is republishing a book partially funded by the owners of the Triumph Gallery of commonly forged paintings.

Having spent trillions of dollars on war with such sorry results, it's a wonder that key figures in the U.S. military or officials in any other part of America's colossal national security state and the military-industrial complex haven't spoken out forcefully and critically.

That's because it's comprised of a colossal cache of state-appointed delegates up for grabs -- a whopping 475 of them.

As Steve Bell draws him, he is chaining himself to a ruthless low-tax and low-spending regime that forces a colossal shrinkage in the state, back to pre-war, pre-welfare state levels.