Sentence examples for of colossal proportion from inspiring English sources

Blankfein bluntly stated that AIG's "failure at risk management was of colossal proportion".

Both of their predecessors had made mistakes of colossal proportions.

Its reaction was an error of colossal proportions.

Syria and its surrounding countries face a human tragedy of colossal proportions.

The Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin said: "This is a missed opportunity of colossal proportions.

Less than two weeks ago a Dutch laboratory working on the film created an error of "colossal proportions".

Opening with a melody that seemed to ride the surface of a huge ocean swell teeming with undercurrents, Jurowski aimed for, and achieved, a performance of colossal proportions.

"Either there is a strong initiative by the Italian government and by the EU, or we will be facing a real disaster of colossal proportions.

To say that these oils have a cult following is to say that Miuccia Prada has a nice little dressmaking business — it is an understatement of colossal proportions.

He goes on, "The Internet was abuzz with a tearjerker of colossal proportions, the sinking of the Titanic freshly filmed in Hollywood and soon to be marketed as the greatest maritime catastrophe of all times".

"If we fail there, Al Qaeda would claim a propaganda victory of colossal proportions, and they could gain safe havens in Iraq from which to attack the United States, our friends and our allies," he said.