Sentence examples for economic colossus from inspiring English sources

In the years that followed, these newly skilled workers helped create an economic colossus.

Less than a decade after the demise of the Soviet Union, the United States is a military and economic colossus.

Finally, there is the United States, an economic colossus burdened by a foreclosure crisis and the worst long-term unemployment situation in nearly a century.

Although we are a "military and economic colossus," the experience of the last century is that we cannot go it alone.

The Commonwealth nations, taken together and including the UK, are an economic colossus comprising some 15% of world GDP, 54 member states (53 excluding Fiji, which is currently suspended) and two billion citizens.

The state-controlled capitalism pushed by Chinese leaders has created an economic colossus, but at the cost of a steadily widening gap in both wealth and privilege between the rich and poor.

China and India, now economic colossi, have a corner on the market.

In objections filed with the Federal Trade Commission, the association of published authors called the proposed combination a "new economic behemoth" and a "colossus" that could ultimately reduce the number of literary choices at bookstores.

ANY country living beside an economic and cultural colossus tends to shore up its separate identity by emphasising its differences and ignoring its similarities.

Germany, an economic and political colossus in the heart of Europe, was reborn today on the stroke of midnight as a single country after more than 45 years of division.

He spent five days courting India, the region's democratic colossus and rising economic power, with the ardor of a smitten suitor -- and half a day treating Pakistan, America's cold war ally and a nation yet again ruled by generals, like an old girlfriend who is part of the past.