Although it was a sizeable eruption, it wasn't exceptional, particularly for this part of the world.
Of that total, almost $43 billion-worth of the shares will be taken up by the government in return for giving Petrobras the right to develop 5 billion barrels of reserves.The share issue is an important element in Brazil's plan to exploit the sizeable oilfields it discovered off its coasts in 2007.
And since the Volkswagen group is still reeling from its emission scandal, any sizeable steps it can take in the EV market will ultimately do a lot to hep it recover its reputation.
For Apple, that means it doesn't have to worry about replacing its biggest component partner in the immediate future, and for Samsung, it means not having to make up new revenue sources to replace the sizeable chunk it makes from having Apple as a customer, at least not as a result of driving away its business through price hikes.
Yet although Aramco must still be making sizeable profits (it releases no figures and refused to comment for this article), the weak oil price means it needs to devote more attention to its core operations.
And if his ego is sizeable now, it must have been terrifying then.
But for someone facing a sizeable challenge, it might be a couple of distractions too many.
Officially, the tourism business in Sicily is sizeable, but it would be bigger still if untaxed and undeclared jobs were counted.Never mind the difficulties of definition and measurement: the industry, from any angle, is huge and growing.
This grand scheme has also been a key part of his campaign to get his chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff, elected next month (Lula is constitutionally barred from standing again).Although $70 billion is a sizeable sum, it is only a fraction of the $224 billion that Petrobras intends to spend over its current five-year plan, which runs to 2014.
Because of this sizeable computation, it is greatly difficult to implement in practice.
