Sentence examples for there was colossal from inspiring English sources

Fidel stood up and strengthened his country during the harshest American blockade, when there was colossal pressure on him, and he still took his country out of this blockade to a path of independent development.

We were sent to the Irish Sea: the minefields there were colossal.

We live in a world where there are colossal and obscene discrepancies of opportunity and wealth.

There is colossal inequity between the men and women sprinters, as this is her sole opportunity to Hoy's three.

Along with the moments of disorientation (one is memorably aided by Jimi Hendrix on the soundtrack), there are colossal laughs.

Prices have risen a bit recently, but even in places where water is scarce it is ridiculously cheap, and as a result there is colossal waste.

There are colossal figures of farmers and mill workers, steel factories and hydroelectric dams — still powerful, though darkened, dulled, nicked and cracked.

"It was a world in which there were colossal differences between the very poor and the very rich, and not much in between; also a world bedevilled by dictators and corruption," he said.

Even with those towering pillars in place, there are colossal gaps, a "black hole at the centre of biology" as Nick Lane begins this terribly important book: we don't understand why life is the way it is.

There are colossal trees with buttressed trunks.

He has double digit leads in all of those states, so that is a fair assumption unless there is colossal voter fraud.