And the losses are colossal.

One net users posted photos of colossal churches.

In fact, there is also a colossal technological hurdle.

Many enterprises in the city are facing colossal debt problems.

Moreover, on the social and cultural levels, the sweeping changes have been more colossal.

Their effect on the international sea trade, which moves approximately 90 per cent of goods, has proven colossal.

Then the Bush administration succumbed to hubris and made the colossal mistake of invading Iraq without broad international support.

The colossal statues were sculptured directly from the rock in which the temple was located before it was moved.

There have been three colossal stock market bubbles in the last century the 1920 s, the 1960 s, and the 1990 s.

Likewise, Iran s nuclear program gained momentum thanks to its sense of impunity following the colossal failure in Iraq of America s concept of preventive war.

There are undoubtedly colossal problems in Detroit, and the bosses of the Big Three automakers could never be convicted of an excess of imagination.

In fact, disconnected from the heroin trade, which has turned the Taliban into a colossal economic concern, Al Qaeda is in clear financial decline.

He celebrates these local and mundane objects globally, and on a grander and grander scale, by incorporating them into ever more colossal sculptures and installations.

Many conflicts took place between the latter and the rest, and the great empire s colossal collapse left a bitter taste in the mouths of all.

That war of choice quickly became very expensive orders of magnitude beyond the 60 billion claimed at the beginning as colossal incompetence met dishonest misrepresentation.

Admiral Mike Mullen, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently defined America s colossal fiscal deficits as the biggest threat to its national security.

With a colossal and diverse geography of 1.2 million square kilometers, Colombia s dramatically inadequate infrastructure is as much a handicap for economic development as poor security.

But today we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.

We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, he warned, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.

I wish to conclude by saying that the challenges faced by Africa are colossal, but the opportunities, means and resources to address those challenges are also immense.

It was a moving demonstration of what the words united nations are supposed to mean a true union of nations joined together in a colossal effort for good.

The colossal damage months of shelling has done can be seen in the destruction of historic buildings and architecture, hundreds of thousands of refugees and thousands of martyrs.

During his tenure, the Al Jazeera English website saw a colossal increase in traffic, and was recognised by the Online News Association for general excellence in online journalism.

Undoubtedly, South Sudan would face colossal challenges as a sovereign state, but the alternative an inevitable return to war would be incalculably worse, both for Sudan and for Africa.

To an outsider, the episode looks like a colossal security failure, as if the head of the FBI personally greeted one of Bin Laden s lieutenants at a garden party.

It is the only way to ensure that merit trumps favoritism and thus to end the country s colossal misallocation of resources. When credit is politicized, investment priorities quickly become distorted.

Few expect such a colossal achievement, of course, but far fewer expect anything remotely similar from Catherine Ashton, the EU s foreign policy czarina, or, for that matter, any European leader.

For as it does, China is using its colossal financial firepower to expand its strategic position on the continent, without linking aid and investment to pesky demands for good governance.

America s colossal fiscal gap readily calculated using projections by the Congressional Budget Office is close to 1,400 of GDP and dwarfs US official debt, which totals 9 trillion (60 of GDP).

It represents a colossal waste of food, but what I discovered whilst I was writing my book was that this very evident abundance of waste was actually the tip of the iceberg.

Any Egyptian democracy that was truly accountable to its popular base would have to address the country s colossal domestic problems, and a state of war with Israel would hardly advance that goal.

Had the goal been mere recovery of tax arrears, there would have been no need to break up the company Yukos could have settled even these colossal liabilities on a civilized installment schedule.

BALTIMORE As each new day brings word of another Wall Street bailout even more colossal than the last, one question presents itself with ever increasing force why does America s economy perform so badly under Republican presidents?

Removing the risk of a euro implosion which, given massive global imbalances, derivatives markets run amok, and the colossal scale of America s budget deficit, could catalyze a major international crash presupposes two fundamental changes in Europe.

Instead of a show of lofty disdain, or official silence, it made a colossal fuss, protesting fiercely about plots to undermine China, and putting dozens of prominent Chinese intellectuals, including Liu s wife, Liu Xia, under house arrest.

I think that we're pretty smart, as compared to chimpanzees, but we're not smart enough to deal with the colossal problems that we face, either in abstract mathematics or in figuring out economies, or balancing the world around.

Bilateral trade stands at about 40 billion a year, and China is not only Iran s largest customer for crude oil, but also a colossal investor somewhere between 40 billion and 100 billion in Iran s energy and transport sectors.

The formal sessions played out predictably, placing great emphasis on the coming structural transformation of China s growth model a colossal shift from the all powerful export and investment led growth of the past 32 years to a more consumer led dynamic.

Five weeks ago, an earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale hit South Asia, causing colossal loss of life and material damage, especially in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan, in Jammu and Kashmir, in India and in Afghanistan.

The bottom line, however, is that even the domestic issues that loomed so large in the election can never be addressed effectively without regard for the colossal sums that Netanyahu and his allies have been pouring into the occupation system in Palestinian lands.

Though initially, daily crowds were averaging at 200,000, as opposed to the 380,000 plus day needed to hit the 70 million mark, 15th June saw a colossal 518,000 people attend, with some waiting between five and seven hours just to enter one pavilion.

Time and time again, I keep putting off writing this article. For someone who lost her mother to a lethal bullet, writing about mothers, and about Mother's Day, is not completely therapeutic. Even if we agree that writing has magical powers, some kinds of pain are simply too colossal.

But it is one thing to take a calculated risk, as the Russians did in rightly assuming that the West would not go to war over Georgia it is another thing for Russia to jeopardize its colossal economic gains of recent years in an all out confrontation with the West.