Sentence examples for made a colossal mistake from inspiring English sources
He thinks Britain has made a colossal mistake by being so open to foreigners over the years.
President Clinton, who oversaw the negotiations at Camp David, later wrote that Arafat made a "colossal mistake" by not accepting that offer or a subsequent one.
Ryan said that by contrast Obama made a colossal mistake by drawing a red line in 2013 and acting when it was crossed by the Syrian government.
At the Tata Steel tournament in the Netherlands, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the world's top-ranked player, made a colossal mistake in Round 3 against Anish Giri, a 16-year-old Dutch grandmaster.
It's easy to forget now, but many fans thought that the Eagles made a colossal mistake by signing Vick after his prison term on dogfighting charges, that he didn't deserve a second chance.
THE LAST THING a restaurant critic wants is special treatment, and I thought I'd made a colossal mistake when I showed up at Taormina in the company of a regular.
Unions attacked Barclays on Thursday night for making a "colossal mistake" in axing 1,700 jobs from its branch network as the bank automates services and cuts costs.
He asserted that the American labor movement was making a "colossal mistake" by turning a complicated trade and development issue into a campaign issue.
The Nixon Administration will make a colossal mistake if it interprets the Senate's rejection of the Hatfield McGovern amendment as an invitation to slow down American troop withdrawals from Vietnam or to stonewall the peace talks in Paris.
Writing in the Telegraph, Alexander said public sector workers would be making a "colossal mistake" to spurn the government's pensions deal and would be sacrificing the best offer they will get "for years to come".
On the one hand, it would have been useful, in retrospect, if he had sacrificed his career for the sake of his country; on the other hand, at the time it wasn't clear, even to Powell, that his country was making a colossal mistake, or that he had the power to prevent it.
