It faced a $900m revenue shortfall a sizeable worry in a state with an annual budget of about $6 billion.
But amid the pomp and ceremony of the grand opening, there was a sizeable unspoken worry: the plummeting rouble and increasingly treacherous economic situation in Russia.
While the vote passed with a clear majority, a sizeable minority opposed the deal, worrying that Shell may be paying too much for BG given the sharp drop in the price of crude, which has tumbled from $55 a barrel when the deal was struck last April to about $31 now.
He acknowledged that a sizeable proportion of the population had worries about the development of GM products.
With Elliot struggling with thigh trouble, a sizeable chance finally beckoned last week.
A sizeable minority of respondents (25.6%) were worried that registering as donors is like tempting death, despite the fact that about 95% of the participants did not find organ donation unacceptable because of religious issues [ 30].
"That is a sizeable risk.
The country has a sizeable trade surplus.
And that would be a sizeable whack.
That, though, remains a sizeable "if".
