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It was as if Mr Brown thought the ailing economy would yield to an act of governmental will, if only it were colossal enough.

He took it for a hill looming above a wooded island, or some colossal rock overgrown with moss and ferns and hidden by the fog.

And far from being ready to take on the globe, most emerging-market bankers are consumed by their colossal and growing businesses at home.

It would be a colossal mistake if misguided assumptions, rhetoric and actions led to a dangerous and conflicted relationship.

He does not know his letters, ' he said to his cousin. 'Could you believe in the existence of such a colossal dunce?

This colossal sculpture was one of a pair that guarded the entrance to the throne room of King Sargon II.

Alan Blinder, the former Federal Reserve vice-chairman, has called the decision to let the bank fail "a colossal error" .

The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable , tortuous, colossal citadel.

It turned out that Ponzi had never actually got around to buying many postal coupons and that it was all a colossal hoax.

Thompson: If you think it's a colossal waste of time, and here's why, in a ROWE it's up to you to put that out there to the meeting manager.

Round and round here went the enormous revolutions of the dark colossal water- wheel , grim with its one immutable purpose .

Of course, in the event of a disaster big enough to wipe out all humans, such as a colossal asteroid strike, it would not really matter.

This was a colossal fight, needing huge amounts of money, and engaging the enemy through overwhelming force.

The massive undertaking marked the beginning of an era of colossal sporting constructions across the globe.

This colossal blast created everything. All the matter we see in the universe today. And it did all this, without even making a sound.

The idea of your being in London, and a vast millionaire, and a colossal celebrity! Why, it's the Arabian Nights come again.

somewhere down its course the land had twisted beneath that colossal hammer-blow and the way to the sea was no longer open.

Brazil also risks patting itself on the back so much that it fails to see the colossal work that remains to be done.

To secure the homeland, America did not just wage foreign wars. It also created a colossal security and intelligence bureaucracy at home.

He spoke with solemnity and his colossal misshapen nose made what he said very quaint.

Russia's foreign minister warned of a "colossal danger" , and said those behind the attack carried a huge responsibility.

Growing at a rate of 20% a year will impose colossal pressures on everything from staffing levels to risk control.

Whether the elder brother Ye son is many to is colossal in the outside or not, the not filial mother would is head a fault.

Has it been a "colossal failure" , as the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, attests?

The bush administration is going to embark upon a colossal risky military operation against Saddam.

Much of Japan's colossal household wealth, one of the world's biggest pools of savings, is in cash or deposits earning little interest.

Urban ecology is a colossal system, and urban Greenbelt system is playing an important role as a main part of the system.

The colossal statue was the central feature of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the Greek sanctuary where the Olympic Games were held.

An honest man , strong , fearless, was struck down by a colossal power, perverted by an evil influence .

Egypt's colossal state, with its 8m employees and army of security agents, is in no danger at all of losing physical control.

Urbanization on such a colossal scale is reshaping Chinese culture, politics, and institutions.

Cave 13 has another colossal Buddha, his arm supported by another figure and an enormous halo around his head.

For the message needs to be broadcast that alternative medicine is a colossal waste of money.

She dismisses worries about the colossal cost of protectionism or of debt-servicing with a devalued currency as scaremongering.

When he returned to power in 1977, Deng embarked on a colossal rush to hold national entrance examinations and reopen universities.

But this colossal ice formation is actually a portion of the wall terraces of a huge crater on Mars.

The head-stock and pit-bank of the mine itself were meaningless among the colossal new installations.

It seems as if human agency could affect this colossal power.

But this kind of pressure fuels motivation, which is exactly what you'll need to accomplish such a colossal undertaking.

The result has been a colossal and also lucrative carry trade, with both welcome and unwanted consequences.

The first study of the colossal squid's metabolic system shows that the squid's energy demands likely dictate a slow, aimless existence.

Given the scale of misery that civil wars cause, even a small reduction in their number would be a colossal blessing.

Still, it should have been held accountable for the colossal devastation the recent flood has caused. Instead, it has been rewarded.

BP is facing colossal long-term problems as a result of the Macondo incident, including almost certainly further management changes.

Could you believe in the existence of such a colossal dunce?

Senator Johnson says the president should spend time to come up with a serious plan for controlling spending and the colossal U.

George W Bush's reign is now recognised, even by non-partisan American commentators, as a colossal failure.

I've got the colossal final book 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' to finish off, and I'm going to university in September.

During the 1970s Christo had expanded his concept of art to a colossal scale.

Upon reflection, the reason for all this colossal-speak high boot is clear: We are bored with our fantastic, wonderful lives.

Far above it, the sounds of battle sent vibrations through the entire colossal concrete-and-glass mushroom that was the capital city.

That will impose colossal financial burdens in a country already struggling to meet its pension commitments to the elderly.

Every bit of this colossal damage was caused by one woman's lie.

Seeing these stone men reminds me of those colossal stone sculptures on Easter Island.

Their chaotic forces raged across the face of the world and clashed with the colossal Titans.

Such a colossal waste of energy, time and money ($300 million, just to run the election).

Yet that phrase came to haunt him as the boom years ended in recession and a colossal deficit.

In that tournament, the team from far East Asia made it all the way to the quarter-finals, beating the colossal Italy along the way.

Nonetheless, colossal challenges remain to help this population.

User innovations have even turned Sina Weibo into a colossal dating website.

Given the rating agencies' mandate is to inform investors of credit risks, it's hard to imagine a more colossal failure.

But as he gingerly examined the piece, he saw the bend of a colossal elbow.

The American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think-tank, has dismissed Sarbox as a "colossal failure" .

For travelers looking to visit tourist spots and landmarks across the colossal country, this means shaving off travel time.

and build him a colossal palace entirely out of chocolate.

Edison set the tone for the 20th century, with expensive research projects carried out on a colossal scale.

WHEN Ronal Serpas took the post of New Orleans police chief in May, he walked into a colossal mess.

Above the canonic entablature are 140 colossal statues of Saints, as well as the insignia of the patron pope, Alexander VII.

By the time the 1, 800 pieces of the colossal work were finished, thirteen years later, Catherine II had already died.

Sometimes they mock Mr Obama for not quite living up to their colossal expectations.

The two Chinese firms' global market share is still relatively small, but their impact on telecoms has been colossal.

However, its close relative, the Colossal Squid, may grow to much greater sizes, as evidenced by the size of sucker marks on sperm whales.

Two cup glasses were attach mercilessly kick in the floor, sent out a colossal voice to ring.

Therefore, the emphasis on the city's water system planning has become a matter of a colossal task.

This colossal gap can hardly be attributed to the policy differences between the two candidates, which are small.

That cloud you see is in fact a colossal swarm of thimble jellyfish - each no bigger than your thumbnail.

seen from the air, the unoccupied space formed by the four square exhibition halls is a colossal plus sign " " .

The Juggernaut is a colossal structure made out of religious idols and two pairs of enormous wheels.

New York City is a colossal urban beehive, and the perfect setting for a fascinating game about human behavior.

Imagine the colossal nerve of those painters, presuming to flog their wares in the very palace of the emperor.

Space slugs are colossal, worm-like creatures that reside within the furrows and craters of asteroids and airless planetoids.

Even by the standards of the subcontinent it was a colossal operation: Indian Railways employs a mere 1. 5m people.

These colossal changes in the composition and dynamics of the human population by and large escape public notice.

It was a weirwood ancient and colossal, ten times the size of the one in the Stone Garden at Casterly Rock.

What company would absorb the colossal expense of having orders changed at the last second according to customers' shifting whims?

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers. By Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson.

Exhibition subsequently given the colossal upsurge of interest in British fashion following Diana's wedding.

It's so colossal the Grand Canyon will be easier swallowed by the one of the smaller side branches.

A number of hurricanes have caused colossal damage to parts of Asia in recent years.

It works on the principle of antitypes and results in the creation of a colossal force: fire and water.

The crisis in the euro zone forced Mrs Merkel to push colossal bail-outs through a reluctant Bundestag.

Despite this winnowing process, accelerated by the recession, it is a colossal mistake to predict the newspaper industry's imminent death.

His father, Joe, had built a colossal fortune, and wanted to turn his money into power.

competition closed, a lorry arrived at the factory with a truly colossal biscuit which weighed 2400 pounds.

Brittle with excessive frost , many colossal tough- grained maples , snapped in twain like pipe stems, cumbered the unfeeling earth .

Facts have eloquently proved that Mao Tse - tung's thought becomes a moral atom bomb of colossal power once it takes hold of the masses.

It was a colossal misfortune that Thabo Mbeki was Mandela's successor.

Economists anticipate that the new policy will unleash another colossal growth potential for the country.

That is to say, return actually realized fall short of the costs involving a colossal loss to the exchequer.

Why did these two superpowers build up such colossal stockpiles of nuclear weapons, particularly if both sides hoped never to use them?

Thirteen colossal engine thrusters glow blood red as they push the immense craft through space.

For the Trade Federation, the battle droid infantry piloted STAPs, MTTs, and AATs as well as their colossal battleships.

Why was Keynes's diagnosis of the Great Depression as a "colossal muddle" so compelling at first?

the colossal statue stands in the center square, supercili8ously inspecting the city and its dweller.

With Ferrari at the eye of F1's colossal power struggle, both of the team's drivers this week emerged with apparently strong personal views.

The millionaire will bequeath his colossal fortune to his only son.

Lingering would be a colossal waste of love and money.

How dare they throw away such colossal quantities of money in times of crisis?

'Teams didn't spend colossal amounts this summer, so the smaller teams were able to keep hold of their best assets and they've improved. '

With colossal skulls, their heads can be used as battering rams, but air spaces in their skulls act like shock absorbers.

My top two would be World War I and the Crimean War. Both were colossal, inexplicable wastes.

The Edsel has been described as both a "colossal failure" and "a car ahead of its time. "

Spiking global temperatures are wreaking havoc with the Greenland ice sheet. Some fear that the colossal sheet is on the verge of collapse.

Congressional leaders, contemplating a colossal economic-stimulus package, needed to know where he was headed.

This massive overbuild is being fuelled by the colossal scale of industrialisation.

E&Y, fearing a fat-cat-hating "runaway jury" imposing colossal penalties, would probably rather not take its chances at trial.

A number of tough questions hang over the future of the colossal wealth they donated. How will it be spent?

Was their failure to do so a colossal mistake, or would the financial crisis have deteriorated anyway?

It was a colossal Passion in embryo, It never matured.

An infinitesimal nugget of space. And then something happened, triggering the most colossal explosion in history.

Temporary setbacks seem like colossal embarrassments and total failures.

The heyday of California water development began in the late 1930s with construction of the colossal Central Valley Project, or CVP.

This was a colossal misjudgment.

The likes of Google and Facebook reap colossal rewards from being market-makers rather than market-takers.

I hate to say it, but that was a colossal failure!

We had a fleet of colossal Saturn booster rockets emerging from our factories.

Chinese from every province pour in by the truckload to marvel at the colossal barricade, here only 35 miles from the capital.

The turbine maintenance requirements are not colossal and it would result in lower lifetime operating costs.

Worse, by running the printing presses red-hot, his government created a colossal monetary overhang.

The colossal body of Gao Da Dun Jian receptions to go toward sofa she, ponderous and emollient, almost want to crush smooth her.

Modern athletes, fuelled by colossal rewards, can easily be tempted into misbehaviour.

Colossal orbs of rosy granite serve as props for visitors' snapshots in Australia's Northern Territory.

It also created a colossal security and intelligence bureaucracy at home.

All 900 million users around the world were advised they needed a patch because of a colossal security bungle .

The authorities in Senegal have unveiled a colossal statue overlooking the capital Dakar.

Compounding that vulnerability is America's need to share colossal amounts of data across a sprawling government machine.

This volume, colossal in scope yet minutely detailed, laid the foundations of modern biology.

A colossal explosion occurs, sending newly forged, heavier elements into space.

The whole thing is a colossal waste of money, he complains.

Egyptian water experts said that the upstream countries wasted colossal amounts of water that run off unused into swamps.

Some agencies were openly critical of the colossal human loss incurred in the army's final assault on Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.

No other city in India bears such colossal inconveniences with such phlegmatic grace.

has come an unusual sprinkling of doubts about the ability of the colossal Three Gorges Dam to keep the river in check.

All three deem South Africa's second post-apartheid president, Thabo Mbeki, a colossal failure.

The singer earns a colossal amount of money.

The numbers may sound reassuringly low, large and colossal, respectively, but there is significant political sleight of hand at play here.

Its staff are paid more than the private sector, their productivity is low and the organisation has a colossal pension deficit.

The result was over-investment on a colossal scale: not just in industrial capacity but in property.

Weaning hospitals and doctors off these sources of funds will be a colossal task.

Even the lightest touch on the accelerator is enough for the engine to show its colossal power.

The intellectual impact of the crisis has already been colossal.

In the W. end was a huge apse, 20m in diameter, where a colossal seated statue of Maxentius stood.

Long ago, it weren't unusual to colossal countries to establish colonies in distant earths.

offers games and colouring pages to teach children about the joys of owning a colossal sport-utility vehicle.

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What if the evil planned is truly colossal, or May even make retaliation impossible?

The game will be played in a colossal arena with a seating capacity of more than 60, 000.

Long ago, it wasn't unusual for colossal countries to establish colonies in distant lands.

Only, man face ascend more sharp and sharp, be all covered up by that vice- super colossal glasses.

Everything about the two ships was on a colossal scale .

For the present upsurge of the peasant movement is a colossal event.

That should not happen, unless the US makes colossal errors.

The malign Old Gods - colossal beings of elemental fury - once ruled the world and the savage elementals that dwelt upon it.

He is well aware of Russia's colossal corruption, lawlessness and inefficiency; his recent speeches would befit an opposition leader.

Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.

In the parlour a colossal shade of Mrs. Melbury's head fell on the wall and ceiling.

Suddenly a colossal explosion occurred in Battleship Row.

Now, the scientists have mapped the colossal underground lake of magma.

Wen chuan especially big earthquake disaster occurs, caused colossal life and property losses to the area's people.

Thanks to colossal improvements in sanitation and medicine, that figure is now 75 for men and 80 for women.

It requires government spending on a colossal scale.

The latest controversy surrounds Ethiopia's colossal Gibe III dam.

How do the Zetas feel about their colossal undertaking to assist humans through the coming cataclysms?

As to whether China has any plan to withdraw Chinese personnel in Pakistan, I think the plan may be too colossal.

To Keynesian critics the switch to austerity is a colossal blunder.

Even by modern standards, the 46000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship.

Germany is finalising a plan to house its banks' colossal hoard of toxic assets.

Only 47 such "mega-colossal" eruptions are known to have occurred in all of Earth's history.

The colossal World Trade Center twin towers collapsed.

Joshua Foer's engrossing best seller "Moonwalking With Einstein" recalls one colossal example of what we trade for progress.

Mr Blair now faced another "colossal task" , Rev Paisley said.

What is the source of the colossal sum of speculative money shocking the property and stock markets?

And married women and men who worked a colossal 60 hours or more per week had 10 percent more sex than unmarried overworked folks.

The Empire State Building is a colossal structure.

In 1936-37, the Federal Reserve made a colossal mistake in its "exit strategy" .

The military made a colossal blunder.

And how did they manage to transfer abroad such colossal sums?

"Would that we had learnt any lesson from colossal floods in Pakistan in the past, " he added.

As Washington debates how to prevent another colossal financial crisis, some critics are calling for heavy regulation of hedge funds.

The colossal statue stands in the center square.

China reportedly plans to diversify its colossal $1, 000bn of foreign exchange reserves.

Nearby is the colossal 12th-century Sitting Buddha 120 m. high. It is cut of the rock face overlooking the Min River.

The export machine, at its peak in 2008, was running a colossal $426bn current account surplus.

whereas, if there is poverty of mind and heart, your needs become colossal.

MODERATOR: Senator Kerry, what colossal misjudgments , in your opinion, has President Bush made in these areas?

Built 4000 years ago, the three great pyramids at Giza, in the Egyptian desert remain the most colossal buildings ever constructed.

The Chinese Government is confident that, given its perseverance, this colossal scourge of SARS will be smashed in the end.

The colossal squid findings were published online last month in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.

Both it and fragments of another equally colossal specimen he unearthed are some of the largest sea reptiles of their kind known to science.

Would we meet any in this colossal ocean?

Another leading culprit is a series of colossal volcanic eruptions that occurred between 63 million to 67 million years ago.

The colossal quake and the powerful tsunami that followed killed more than 1, 400 people and left 2 million homeless in Chile.

Along with its Kia subsidiary, it took a colossal 73% of the local car market last year.

Today, I was dealt a colossal life lesson.

INSKEEP: That's a colossal change.

At 6 feet high and more than 10 feet long, this colossal image is the largest in the exhibition.

My friends, what we have here is a colossal failure of imagination.

The religious landscape of America has changed radically in the past 40 years, a change gradual and colossal at the same time.

Yellowstone has experienced colossal volcanic explosions in the past, most recently 2 million and 640, 000 years ago.

Even by Chinese standards it is colossal, with 320m customers, 441, 000 staff and more branches than many Wall Street firms have desks.

He has a colossal nerve.

An idiosyncrasy to the colossal developers of Hong Kong, Eton is able to respond with grate alacrity to markets and consumer tastes.

Last year Marca's website had 27m unique visitors a month, a colossal tally for a Spanish outfit.

What everyone wanted to know was if Snape was really on the side of good, and if so, why did he act like such a colossal douche

It opened into the house, where the females were already astir, Zillah urging flakes of flame up the chimney with a colossal bellows;

that China refuses to significantly revalue the renminbi and thus retains its colossal imbalance in trade with the United States;

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described manganites colossal magnetoresistance of the temperature sensitivity of current situation and existing problems;

Sources of Sudden Colossal Profits of Medicines and Solutions to Its Problems

Phase separation and colossal magnetoresistance effect in a small-world network

Nanoscale magnetic-domain structure in colossal magnetoresistance islands

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

New applications of colossal magnetoresistance thin film materials in photodetection

Several Popular Problems in the Research on in Colossal Magnetoresistance Effect of Rare-earth Manganite

a lorry arrived at the factory with a truly colossal biscuit which weighed 2400 po

The effect of grain boundaries on magnetic and transport properties in colossal magnetoresistance particle film

The colossal undertaking of bringing Beijing cultural creativity industry into the 21st century

Silent, grim, colossal, the big city has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron;

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman

On Economic Sources Due to Colossal Profits and Ways to Eradicate them

colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple

All sorts of hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with terror; a dread sink-hole,

The play was brought to a climax when the colossal ship

It was part of the colossal sun,

Ford needed heaps of capital to build his colossal River Rouge factory;

Colossal profits of China's Banks