With the colossal sadness

What a colossal waste of time!

Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is one of the earliest computer adventure games.

The completion of the Suez canal was a colossal achievement.

Just as in Europe, we are seeing the results of colossal social failure.

The colossal growth in fields sown with opium poppy and multi billion dollar profits.

Instead, world stock markets recovered, creating a colossal bubble that peaked 13 years later, in 2000.

Even if we agree that writing has magical powers, some kinds of pain are simply too colossal.

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

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

Origins Colossal Cave Adventure , created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP 10 computer, was the first widely used adventure game.

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.

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.

Drop by the Verona Arena a colossal amphitheatre erected in the first century AD where gladiators used to fight deadly battles for 400 years.

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.

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.

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 the most vivid memory I have of that time is the colossal silhouette of the tank that blocked off the street in front of my school.

We who were due to inherit the fulfilment of society s vindications, the faithful believers in Hugo Chavez s revolution, have instead fallen prey to a colossal, historical hoax.

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.

Poverty, psychological stress, and the collapse of health care have led to an anomalously high death rate, a mass decrease in health, and the wasting of colossal labor resources.

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.

Not surprisingly, Poland like other Central and East European countries sought reassurance from the US and Britain when their colossal neighbors, Germany and Russia, embarked on their anti American flirtation.

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.

Michiko Kakutani, Pulitzer Prize winning critic for The New York Times, described James as a prodigious talent , calling the novel epic sweeping, mythic, over the top, colossal and dizzyingly complex.

This envy bred the colossal social tensions of the 1990s an era when virtually all income was viciously redistributed to those who had adapted (especially to the very few called oligarchs ).

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.

But to keep the state intact after it had been formed was a colossal task ... Each of the minor states ... had its little sovereign ... who ... gave himself chiefly to ... plotting, pillaging and fighting.

The investment required to build these deluxe villages, especially the one planned for the tropical islands of Hainan province in southern China , where the wealthiest Chinese investors can be found, promises to be colossal.

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?

Its recent agreement with China on border demarcation notwithstanding, Russia can never be assured of China s ultimate intentions as a colossal power hungry for raw materials for its booming economy and living space for its massive population.

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.

Moving to the outskirts of the city, the colossal 900 year old Hohensalzburg Castle stands atop a cliff and can be accessed either on the funicular or on foot, but the climb is rather steep and challenging.

The colossal project would create more than 200,000 jobs, attract between 15 and 18.8 billion euros worth of investments up until 2022, and generate more than 15 billion euros from tourism income over ten to fifteen years.

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.

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.

These are trying economic times for the US, largely owing to imperial overstretch financed by Chinese credit. 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.

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.

One of Geneva's landmarks is the colossal Jet d'Eau a pencil fountain that shoots water up to 140 m high in the air, and can be spotted from the sky, so make sure to look out the window as the plane approaches Geneva Airport.

It is fashionable to mock the bureaucratic minutia of European regulation. But European regulation is as nothing compared to the mountains of national laws and decrees, billions wasted in political patronage, and the colossal state machines that eat up 30 40 of the economic product of Europe's nation states.

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. To reduce the country s appalling levels of poverty, Santos will need to focus on an ambitious plan for infrastructure improvement, modernization of agriculture and mining, housing construction, and the introduction of new technologies.

The West is right to insist on norms of decent government, but it risks losing its capacity to influence events in Africa when it automatically links aid to elections. 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.