"We've got your child," he says in rapid-fire Spanish, usually adding an expletive for effect and then rattling off a list of demands that might include cash or jewels dropped off at a certain street corner or a sizable deposit made to a local bank.
They refused to show the airplane to any prospective buyer without a sizable deposit, and when pressed for proof that it could fly, they furnished the names of Dayton residents who had happened to see their Huffman Prairie tests.
But just as he was about to put down a sizable deposit with an agency, The New York Times ran an article on the agency's shady business practices.
The country has huge reserves of oil and natural gas and sizable coal deposits.
There are also sizable kaolin deposits at Djebel Debar and large reserves of marble at Djebel Filfila near Skikda.
The notion that Argentina could watch as British companies discover sizable oil deposits so close to its shores would be a crushing blow to a country already envious about the huge oil discoveries made in the past three years in neighboring Brazil.
Numerous sizable amber deposits are known around the world.
