The Colossus did eventually fall, possibly being pulled down to reuse its bronze.

If Russia remains dependent on a natural resource economy, it will again become a colossus with feet of clay.

This mass national consciousness launched the Chinese colossus into global competition to achieve an international status commensurate with the country s vast capacities and the Chinese people s conception of their country s rightful place in the world.

Beginning with Deng in the late 1970 s, scientists and engineers technocrats with the determination to convert a dysfunctional centrally planned economy into an investment and export led colossus framed and implemented a producer oriented development model.

We are coming out of 50 years, most unusual years, of history in which we have had a totally mono polar world, in which every compass needle for or against has to be referenced by its position to Washington a world bestrode by a single colossus.

Of course, part of the success of South Africa s transition success was due to a miracle the moral colossus that is Nelson Mandela, whose calm and sagacity, and his status as an icon of forgiveness, compassion, magnanimity and reconciliation, make us the envy of every nation on earth.