He founded the sizable New World International Wine Competition, in San Bernardino.
Except at the top end (the companies that make our list of China's largest companies), even China's biggest companies are not so sizable by world standards.
The distaste for inflation is such that a 1996 study (titled, aptly, "Why Do People Dislike Inflation?"), by the Yale economist Robert Shiller, found that, in countries around the world, sizable majorities said that they would prefer low inflation and high unemployment to high inflation and low unemployment, even if that meant that millions of extra people would go without work.
Met with mere politeness by a crowd that has a sizable stake in the world as it stands, Shadyac, looking worried, remarked, "You're so well behaved".
The circle of West's fans to which I belong, while sizable in the art world, is minuscule in the wider American culture, despite numerous shows and public-art installations here, over the years.
Despite the gathering momentum of 2009, several challenges will have to be overcome if a sizable portion of the world's auto fleet is to be replaced with electric or hybrid vehicles.
But it is a sizable sum in the world of French start-ups, where Viadeo has raised less than 50 million euros over all since it was founded in 2004.
This four-engined transport plane, based on the DC-4 civil airliner, had a range of 4,000 miles (6,400 km) and, unlike the Clipper, could land at any sizable airfield in the world.
The Gold Cup, a biennial event that features the United States men's soccer team against the best from Central and Latin America, is a sizable notch below the World Cup in prestige.
This book is geared at a sizable segment of the world -- parents -- with advice ranging from how to read aloud to your children to how to nurture their growing use of the written word.
