While tariffs have been placed on specific products, like steel and tires, because of evidence of unfair export subsidies, the threat of putting sizable tariffs on a country's entire line of exports to the United States is highly unusual — and, some argue, of dubious legality under international trade law.
You need to do whatever it takes to get all countries in the region involved collectively to solve this problem without putting sizable U.S. combat troops on Mideast soil.
It said the two had put "a sizable chink in the Keynesians' armor".
By mid-2008 hadhad put on sizable bets against companies that he thought would suffer in such a rout, he testified.
He said the move will help him save enough money to put a sizable down payment on a condominium or a house.
In the summer, after decades of debate about welfare's unintended consequences, Congress and the president agreed to compel states to put a sizable percentage of adult recipients to work.
And the market for longer-term power trading has essentially dried up, because with credit ratings so low, companies would have to put up sizable collateral to conduct long-term trades.
Since the mayor's re-election, Mr. Codey said, the James administration has put a sizable dent in his group's finances and dispatched squadrons of code inspectors to its buildings.
If you want to start a restaurant, and you ask a bank for a loan, any sensible banker is going to insist that you put a sizable amount of money down — that is, that you have a significant chunk of equity in the business — before they lend you any money.
Democrats left their convention in Charlotte, N.C., with an unusual amount of unity and enthusiasm, but the three-day-old strike by 26,000 teachers in Chicago has quickly deflated some of that enthusiasm — and could, some political analysts say, ultimately put some sizable cracks in the coalition that President Obama hopes to ride to re-election.
