The occasion offers space for citizens to reflect on the colossal human suffering and loss experienced in conflict although, that can of course be done in all sorts of ways.
LOS ANGELES, Aug 7 (Variety.com) - "Suicide Squad" smashed records, scoring a colossal $135.1 million debut despite suffering some of the worst reviews of the year.
Jim Lanzone, the boss of Ask.com, the fourth-largest search engine after Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN, says that his firm is not seeing any similar easing of demand.The deeper problem, says Henry Blodget, founder of Cherry Hill Research, a consultancy, is that Yahoo! is still suffering from a "colossal error" it made in the late 1990s.
The United States, a rich and healthy nation, cannot close its eyes to suffering on such a colossal scale.
In America, the effect of some states' hikes in tobacco taxes is being neutralised by a price war, in which smaller, discount brands are undercutting the big names.The price war is adding to the pain that America's big tobacco firms are suffering from a series of colossal lawsuits from smokers and state governments.
The scale of suffering in the war is so colossal that deaths become, numbingly, mere statistics.
But flawed animal tests can exaggerate the effects of candidate drugs, and lead to trials that end up being a colossal waste of time and money, as well as suffering.
Everybody knows the War on Drugs has been a colossal failure and a gaping, festering money pit filled with dead bodies and suffering.
Its colossal skirts fan out into an even vaster train resembling the tail of a gold peacock suffering from elephantiasis.
Mockingjay Part 1 may simply be suffering due to the huge success earlier this year of the latest Transformers movie, which made a colossal $301m in China.
