Two words that made a colossal difference in my life.

We're talking about good, fresh food that is being wasted on a colossal scale.

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

It is also possible that your program all of a sudden transforms into an adventure game and allows you to explore the colossal caves.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

Then the Bush administration succumbed to hubris and made the colossal mistake of invading Iraq without broad international support. Iraq provided the symbols, civilian casualties, and recruiting ground that the jihadi extremists had sought in Afghanistan.

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.

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.

We must create an international mechanism within this Organization to strengthen and coordinate efforts aimed at alleviating the suffering of victims of natural disasters, and also to design early warning systems to reduce the colossal losses and damage caused by them.

You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center. It's just this colossal it's five times bigger than the U.S. Capitol, in which they're going to intercept and analyze communications, traffic and personal data to try and figure out who's the troublemaker in society.

There have been three colossal stock market bubbles in the last century the 1920 s, the 1960 s, and the 1990 s. In contrast, there has been only one such bubble in the United States housing market in the last hundred years, that of the 2000 s.

Local governments, in particular, have struggled with a colossal volume of bad debt, which has undermined their capacity for capital expenditure and frozen out private demand for productive investment. Stringent controls on the real estate market placed a heavy burden on the developers themselves, as well as related industries like steel.

The massive tax claims against Yukos used for this purpose were precisely that the means rather than the end. 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.

There are undoubtedly colossal problems in Detroit, and the bosses of the Big Three automakers could never be convicted of an excess of imagination. Economic policy has also contributed to their current condition as trade agreements and an over valued dollar promoted auto imports, and incoherent energy and environmental policy stifled innovation.

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. There is now broad consensus among China s senior leadership in favor of such a rebalancing.

The attack on Afghanistan that followed the 9 11 attacks was understandable, but the subsequent invasion of Iraq was entirely unconnected to Al Qaeda as much as Bush tried to establish a link. 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.

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. True, China cannot entirely overlook US pressure and the staunch opposition of its top oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, to Iran s nuclear program.

The gap between the super rich and the rest of society seemed less colossal not just in terms of income and wealth, but also in terms of attachments and social purpose. The rich had more money, of course, but they somehow still seemed part of the same society as the poor, recognizing that geography and citizenship made them share a common fate.

Even so, it maintains strenuous efforts to attract pilgrims particularly wealthy ones by building attractions, including vast shopping malls and a colossal copy of London s Big Ben that now looms incongruously over the Ka ba. And the authorities admission of more pilgrims than the city s infrastructure can safely handle is indisputable the proof is repeated disasters like the one in September.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshal s boastful rhetoric cannot hide the fact that Hamas s military power has been dealt a devastating blow. But, unless Israel is ready to pay an exceptionally high price in terms of its international standing by occupying Gaza and destroying its entire military hierarchy and arsenal, Hamas can still claim victory, having survived yet another onslaught by Israel s colossal military machine.

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. As a result, the utterly powerless, hitherto quite obscure Liu Xiaobo, has become not only world famous, but much better known inside China, too.

Barack Obama, who wants to be a transformative president like his role model, Abraham Lincoln, could do worse to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize that he received prematurely than to facilitate a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement. 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.

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. Nor should Israelis ignore what former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described as megalomaniacal preparations for an attack on Iran that would never happen.

But it gave me faith. It gave me faith that we, the people, do have the power to stop this tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food on a colossal scale, if we make noise about it, tell corporations about it, tell governments we want to see an end to food waste, we do have the power to bring about that change.

For some, sectarianism in Iraq appeared like a summer storm, which quickly passed once the surge of US troops became American strategy in 2007. But even the colossal mistakes of de Baathification (the dismissal of all Iraqi officials who had been members of Saddam s Baath Party) and the decommissioning of the Iraqi army measures so foolish that nobody now admits to ordering them cannot fully explain Iraq s continuing political crisis.

Having initially been seduced by the idea that the IPL showcased the alluring face of a brave new entrepreneurial India, I am reluctant to embrace the opposite view instantly. But there is no doubt that the flaws being exposed daily in the media cupidity on a colossal, almost suicidal scale, the quest for easy money, the turn to illegality, and the lack of ethical standards at the highest levels reveal dangerous streaks in our national character.