Perhaps, she suggested, the persistent outbreaks of extreme weather that people were experiencing in the Northern Hemisphere were connected to the colossal loss of sea ice in the Arctic a region that, with increasing greenhouse-gas emissions, has warmed at double the rate of the rest of the planet.
This is a colossal human loss given the association between undernutrition and poor cognitive development, with severe lifelong consequences for the future of these children," the regional UN heads said, noting this also results in economic losses to a nation's economy due to missed opportunities of human potential.
TOKYO — In June 1998, a disturbing rumor tore through trading floors in Tokyo: Olympus had suffered colossal losses on derivatives trading, punching a large hole in its balance sheet.
According to Gallup, 87% of employees are not engaged in their work--a colossal waste of human potential.
Colossal losses in these departments threatened to bankrupt their companies.
However, state-controlled PetroChina has made colossal losses on its refining in recent years, and its management are focussed on handling a major corruption scandal in China.
When there are banks still to fail, truly colossal losses in the system and unemployment only just getting rolling and house prices still falling I find it hard to believe that the worst of the recession is over, particularly when those saying this have such an absymal record of forecasting.
This is a country with a collapsing economy, an imploding property market, banks nursing colossal losses, and 10-year bond yields at 7.5%.
But all indicators, from extinction rates to intactness of ecosystems, show colossal losses.
"Floods have become a perennial challenge with increasing intensity each year, leaving colossal losses and trauma," the Nigerian Meteorological Agency says.
Generally I argue that in the face of the largest loss of life, love, hope and memory in modern history, drug monopolies in Africa constitute a colossal failure of civilization.
