How To Use Austerity In A Sentence

At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords.
There are similarities in the practices of both sects: initiation is by tearing out the hair, and the lifestyle is one of extreme austerity involving nakedness, penances, and ordeals.
Like it or not, the beauty of mathematics springs from its rigorous austerity.
Bad as the austerity cuts may feel here, life over there is truly harsh: poverty means something entirely different. Times, Sunday Times
Sitting in the lobby of Taj Coromandel and sipping a rich brew of cappuccino, pony-tailed and wearing sunburnt, athletic skin of a western beach boy, Nadaka seems far removed from the austerity of Auroville.

All of this bad news comes on top of the tough austerity programme being pursued by the coalition government. Times, Sunday Times
Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Greek riot police clashed with hundreds of people protesting austerity measures who tried to break a cordon outside Parliament. Anger in Athens
Everyone seems to accept the need for cuts and austerity until it actually affects them, then there are squeals of protest. Times, Sunday Times
The decision was reportedly taken in response to the government's current austerity programme.
His emphasis on material austerity directly challenges our modern addiction to comfort, one of the Celtic tradition's most important correctives to our present mindset.
The common factor between Ireland and the three Baltic States is that they embarked on austerity programs earlier than other EU members. Ireland, Baltic States Took Biggest Consumption Hit
As the UK austerity drive gets going, the focus on public sector spend has become razor sharp. Computing
The government's been working on an austerity program for months in an effort to plug a huge budget deficit leftover from the global financial crisis. Britain Announces Steep Austerity Measures
But after 1945, Britain was marked by austerity.
Inward-looking austerity and Tea Party populism is not the answer, neither for the US nor for Europe. Raymond Johansen: Cooperative Leadership, Not Tea Party Cocktail
The hard men at the finance ministry have promised to review the austerity measures at the end of this month.
All of this bad news comes on top of the tough austerity programme being pursued by the coalition government. Times, Sunday Times
Releasing more bailout funds will require the International Monetary Fund and European institutions to vouchsafe that Greece has not fallen short of its privatization and austerity pledges and the IMF will have to maintain that Greece's mountainous debt burden is sustainable. Move Buys Time for Greece, But Growing Debt Looms
Police endlessly protest that austerity cut their manpower. The Sun
Labour combined an incomes policy with an austerity policy. After Thatcher
They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under a rule sacerdotally vowed to austerity. Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
The carpet beside the bed indicates a chamber decorated for Costanza's lying in; its bare floor indicates a measure of austerity appropriate to her station.
St. Thomas lived a life of austerity; his fasts, for instance, being in marked contrast to the luxury in which he might have lived if he chose.
This brings me a full circle to our cultural resistance to simplicity and austerity. Times, Sunday Times
He is not explicitly called a Nazarite, nor is there any mention of the unshaven hair, but the severe austerity of his life agrees with the supposed asceticism of the Nazarites. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
The government has snookered itself with austerity measures that leave very little political capital to win the next election.
Germany's Chancellor Merkel has presented an austerity plan that includes an eco-tax on air travel. TreeHugger
She was uncandid, therefore, about leaving the breadth of London a little longer between herself and that austerity.
Their only option is internal devaluation: austerity measures to reduce costs. Times, Sunday Times
His uncanny, unmistakable style crossed Cubist austerity with lush Surrealism.
In the medium term we think that 'struggler' stocks that have most revenues based within the euro zone are most vulnerable to the combination of austerity and lost competitiveness," said ING in a European strategy note. European Shares Rise Ahead of EU Meeting
In observable characteristics, Saturn depicts someone who is characterised by austerity or seriousness.
The group is seen as antiauthoritarian and the targets may reflect their opposition to Greece's recent austerity program following a European Union-sponsored € 110 billion ($153.6 billion) bailout for the country earlier this year. Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects
The continuation of economic austerity policies under these conditions has provoked a wave of upheavals throughout the continent.
At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords.
The partial acknowledgment of the injustice and unworkability of the austerity measures came only after popular resistance and the peaceful revolt of the indignant scored its first major victory for the anti-austerity and pro-democracy campaign. Greece is standing up to EU neocolonialism | Costas Douzinas and Petros Papaconstantinou
Portugal, in an attempt to 'forestall' a debt crisis, has already begun imposing austerity measures, including "cutting welfare benefits and government hiring as well as selling assets and raising taxes. Signs of the Times
She renounced the role of tragic widow with an austerity that irritated her would-be saviours.
The first version of the house he designed for James McNeill Whistler was rejected by the Metropolitan Board of Works but, even so, the finished product in white brick with a high, green-tiled mansard roof has the austerity of Modernism.
The govern-ment was forced to row back on an austerity plan that would have involved wage cuts.
But the gravamen of the charge against you is this: not only did you pin your colours to the mast of austerity, you preached the message to the rest of the world, not least to continental Europe. Be warned, George Osborne, austerity will be bad for your ratings
The chapel was lofty, cramped and stonily cold, but its austerity had been tempered a little by draping the walls with thick woollen hangings, and curtaining the inner side of the door. A River So Long
Berlusconi is facing other presurres at home, including an EU austerity push and a trash crisis in Naples. Ruby Berlusconi Sex Scandal Expands As Berlusconi Speaks Out
It was quite a sight, after the War and four years of dreary austerity in England, to see girls whirling round the dance floor in pretty full-length evening dresses in gay colours.
It all came as something of a shock after the austerity of Orion Farm, and in her jacket and trousers, Helena felt grossly underdressed. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
They have misjudged the public mood at a time of austerity. The Sun
These are countries that are having to implement swingeing austerity measures. Times, Sunday Times
The fifth plenum announced austerity measures to tackle the worsening economic situation and called for stronger party leadership and unity.
In essence, this production lacked depth and strength, and failed to emit the icy austerity of Ibsen's masterpiece.
a new budget of unaccustomed austerity
The Mediterranean members of the euro will now suffer the agony of austerity. Times, Sunday Times
A programme of strict economic austerity agreed with the International Monetary Fund is dead.
The Government says this austerity is essential to reduce the national debt. The Sun
The surprise downgrade of Italy's sovereign debt overnight by Standard and Poor's exposes the fatal flaws of pushing through draconian austerity measures on a nation experiencing economic weakness.
The main villain in the piece is austerity. The Times Literary Supplement
I at once sensed the physical austerity and the quality of social and intellectual superiority characteristic of the best public schools.
This was a world of rationing, austerity and supertax, some of which was paid at 90%. Times, Sunday Times
In short, a domestic policy of austerity would be anchored in a supranational regime, a regime designed to provide ‘stability’.
But Cameroni concludes that since the stimulus efforts have failed to put needed money back into the money supply, the stimulus program should be abandoned in favor of its diametrical opposite -- belt-tightening austerity. Ellen Brown: Deficit Terrorists Strike in the United Kingdom: United States of America Next?
The hard men at the finance ministry have promised to review the austerity measures at the end of this month.
The business section of the newspaper bewailed the consequences for an already fragile economy and suggested that even more drastic austerity policies were required.
It's an effective opening that allows him to deflect the criticism that he's concerned with austerity and easing the tax burden on top earners. Times, Sunday Times
He's the $600 million dollar pointman, the "car czar" for the Obama Adminstraion's assault on American auto workers, which is the greenlight for the attack on the jobs and living standards of every working class American in order that the US might "recover" on their backs through austerity for the poor and grotesquely increased profits for the already wealthy. The Car Czar's plan to gut America's autoworkers
The IMF programs of stabilization based on fiscal austerity have also been too contractionary.
There was no talk of austerity or the dreary old deficit. Times, Sunday Times
Townsend referred to his ‘substructure of puritan tradition’ and the austerity of his ‘intellectual integrity of attitude’.
The boys were shown into the guests 'dorter, a long, sunny room with half-a-dozen beds, and with no convent-like austerity about it. The Wicked Day
He said that for twenty years I had served him well, and that if I did five more years of tapas, religious austerity, I would achieve nirvikalpa samadhi (ultimate meditation).
I consider myself well-informed, but I have no idea what the term 'austerity economics' really means. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Austerity for Dummies: The 3-Minute Guide to a Bad Idea
He has also hinted at an easing of harsh austerity measures. Times, Sunday Times
They are also braced for at least two more years of austerity. Times, Sunday Times
Elijah was a man of great austerity and mortification, zealous for God, bold in reproving sin, and active to reduce an apostate people to God and their duty; John Baptist was animated by the same spirit and power, and preached repentance and reformation, as Elias had done; and all held him for a prophet, as they did Elijah in his day, and that his baptism was from heaven, and not of men. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Low inflation, competitive pressure and a continued focus on fiscal austerity depress projected raises, Hewitt says.
The Violin Concerto starts off, for instance, with dissonant sustained chords auguring a foray into some atonal world of austerity and gray shadings.
In 1991 Soglo instituted an austerity program and privatized many state enterprises, a trend continued by Kerekou.
Though austerity is the watchword for vital services needed by the city's working people, when it comes to profit interests, no expense is spared.
The scandal fuelled popular resentment at time of high unemployment and economic austerity.
Claret and red burgundy would cope equally well, but the former's austerity just gives it the edge. Times, Sunday Times
Particularly relevant is Hawes's preference for an architecture of honesty and austerity, stripped of unnecessary embellishment and free of copyism.
Even as a child, he walked barefoot on the path full of thorns of hardship and austerity.
Unless they have already decided to price it in Greek drachma, rather than euro, he can tell you that there is an awful long way to go before austerity kicks in. US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
More recently, government austerity measures have become a concern as healthcare spending is targeted in an attempt to reduce deficits. Times, Sunday Times
The hardline austerity crowd remains impervious to experience. Times, Sunday Times
This Gori, "an incomparable man," writes Alfieri, "good, compassionate, and with all his austerity and ruggedness of virtue (_con tanta altezza e ferocia di sensi_) most gentle," appears literally to have nursed Alfieri in this period of moral sickness as one might nurse The Countess of Albany
Mr. Swinburne to those of Mr. Patmore, in which stateliness of contemplation and a peculiar austerity of tenderness find their expression in odes of iambic cadence, the melody of which depends, not in their headlong torrent of sound, but in the cunning variation of catalectic pause. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
It was 1944, and civilian America was undergoing a regimen of wartime austerity by which it was never more than mildly discommoded, but that imparted a sort of scratchy gray wool feel to the atmosphere. Catacomb Efreet
But Britain's security services have been well resourced in a time of austerity and they have got better. Times, Sunday Times
Strange exotic places, just out of bounds of austerity holidays abroad. THE GOLDEN LION
He argues that the move underlines the importance of continuing his austerity programme. Times, Sunday Times
The new austerity measures include higher taxes on wages and pensions and a value-added tax on services, such as transportation, which up to now had been exempt.
From washing the town's soiled linen to loaning it money was a change so sudden and radical that the rise made him dizzy; he was apt, therefore, to be a little erratic, his manner varying during a single conversation from the cold austerity of a bloodless capitalist to the free and easy democracy of the days when he had stood in the doorway of his laundry in his undershirt and "joshed" the passersby. The Fighting Shepherdess
PARIS Reuters - The European Central Bank remains divided over whether to buy Italian government bonds but even some of those who favor the move say Italy should do more to front-load austerity measures, ECB sources said Saturday. Exclusive: ECB split over whether to buy Italy bonds: sources
Recession-battered Britain learns the true cost of the global financial crisis Wednesday, as the country's government outlines the largest cuts to public spending since World War II - slashing benefits and public sector jobs with a five-year austerity plan aimed at clearing the nation's debts. UK Government Stakes Future On Spending Cuts
It's an effective opening that allows him to deflect the criticism that he's concerned with austerity and easing the tax burden on top earners. Times, Sunday Times
Arriving in Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship, she is a splash of brash American colour against a backdrop of a dour Britain in the grip of Fifties austerity.
As the polls closed, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Madrid's Puerta del Sol to protest what they call an unjust domination of the country's electoral politics by the two major parties and to warn of continued agitation against government austerity measures. Conservatives Ride Crisis to Victory in Spanish Vote
So a combination of austerity and tighter credit is in store, to the applause of the rating agencies, those infallible appraisers of risk that endowed securitized subprime mortgages with triple-A credit ratings. Borrowers of Euroland are Proving Einstein's Theory of Insanity Right
He said the prescriptions - extreme fiscal austerity, soaring interest rates, penal levels of taxation and pain all round - compounded the social and economic misery already being felt.
The move to Downburn has often been likened by the narrator to the end of World War II austerity and the first flushes of utopianism. MUSIC FOR BOYS
He cannot be called that, but through his austerity, bearing, unwavering commitment and unsparing frankness he brought to his times a hint of the prophets of yore.
The government is laying out the battle lines for additional austerity measures even as it faces pressure to reboot the country's faltering economy.
There is no need for another austerity budget. Times, Sunday Times
It was the fitful confusion of stop-start fiscal spending that seesawed the economy between hopeful improvement on the one hand, and wrenching cut-backs and consumption taxes urged by austerity-preaching deficit hawks on the other. Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media
This was a welcome relief from Cold War austerity. Times, Sunday Times
The subject of the campaign, ironically, is fiscal austerity,’ Campbell said in a press release.
Or are you discouraged by the austerity — monasticism, even — of the regime? Times, Sunday Times
There has probably never been such a rush for lard since wartime rationing or the austerity years of the 1950s.
Canada's finance minister doesn't believe the term austerity fits for his government's upcoming budget. CBC | Top Stories News
Low inflation, competitive pressure and a continued focus on fiscal austerity depress projected raises, Hewitt says.
A programme of strict economic austerity agreed with the International Monetary Fund is dead.
Berlusconi is facing other pressures at home, including an EU austerity push and a trash crisis in Naples. Ruby, Berlusconi Sex Scandal Expands As Berlusconi Speaks Out
Further cuts and austerity measures affecting social expenditure can already be foreseen.
He had been under pressure from international organisations over his swingeing austerity measures. Times, Sunday Times
The austerity that has made desire philosophically acceptable is conspicuously absent from pleasure; pleasure is harder to disembody.
But in our new age of austerity, the global game of one-upmanship has changed. Times, Sunday Times
She found him touching in his ignorance of everything-partying, love, money-felt worldly and desperately caring for this moment of boyhood among his ways imperialized and set (he was 33), his pre-Austerity, in which Scorpia figured as his Last Fling-though herself too young to know that, to know, like Pirate, what the lyrics to "Dancing in the Dark" are really about .... Gravity's Rainbow
International Monetary Fund, which they said impose "unachievable" austerity conditions in exchange for aid. ANC Daily News Briefing
After years of austerity, the Klein government has given the region a huge cash infusion, increasing the amount of money for cardiac surgery by 20 per cent.
Germany demands that the debtor nations of southern Europe atone for their sins, insisting on painful austerity. Times, Sunday Times
Greece has since signed up to draconian austerity measures to stay in the bloc. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of encouraging austerity — a sweater from C é line will set you back £ 1,220, £ 800-plus for a jacket from Stella McCartney (another minimalist this season) and around £ 250 for some legwarmers from American "luxe simplist" Michael Kors. Chic Simple
This year there are no actual flowers on the roses on account of austerity. Times, Sunday Times
The choice between new austerity measures with the euro and a default with the drachma is the same as choosing to be killed at five minutes to midnight or at midnight," says Maniatis. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
The Solidarity trade union staged a nationwide day of protests against government economic austerity policies on May 22.
A new economic commission was set up to monitor the success of the austerity measures.
Oh, well, in the war, of course it was austerity; the whole centre of Manchester was totally destroyed.
The austerity measures included a freeze on civil service appointments, pay and promotions.sentence dictionary
It is even sometimes considered holy food: -- "The zamindar of Idar, who is named Naron Das, lives with such austerity that his only food is grain which has passed through oxen and has been separated from their dung; and this kind of aliment the Brahmans consider pure in the highest degree. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
Now Washington is less than two weeks away from austerity in the form of the sequester.
This is one upshot of the Government 's austerity measures. Times, Sunday Times
Under every creed, monachal austerity and seclusion had been attempted.
And it is probably true that the UK can adjust to austerity more easily with a floating currency. Times, Sunday Times
Again, the goal is metaphysical austerity and faithfulness to our epistemic position.
When the government embarked upon its austerity drive in 2010 critics had two serious objections. Times, Sunday Times
The austerity measures have created a pool of discontented young men, with no prospect of a job or a future, who are being exploited by militia leaders for their own ends.
Everyone seems to accept the need for cuts and austerity until it actually affects them, then there are squeals of protest. Times, Sunday Times
Germany demands that the debtor nations of southern Europe atone for their sins, insisting on painful austerity. Times, Sunday Times
Those sorts of fiscal transfers become particularly plangent during times of general austerity, like the one the U.K. is facing now. EU Integration Would Come at a High Price
Osborne insists that Britain will enjoy what he calls "expansionary austerity", because the knowledge that the government is getting to grips with the public finances will engender confidence and encourage private spending to replace the cuts in public spending. Is Osborne fit to run the economy – or to ruin it?
The agency's warnings that unalloyed austerity is self-defeating only adds to the piling anxieties on the economic side. Eurozone: Cut to the core | Editorial
Two senior officials—a senior Socialist Party leader and a cabinet minister—said the government's survival could depend on reseating top cabinet posts after the parliament votes through the new austerity measures at the end of June. Greek PM Under Pressure to Reshuffle Cabinet
Still, at least it must be conclusive proof that the years of austerity are finally over. Times, Sunday Times
Thomas Kelly A group of sadhus engage in an austerity called the panch-agni-tapasya, or five fire practice, in which pieces of burning cow dung are placed around the Sadhu as he meditates or performs hatha yoga. Understanding the Sadhu's Mysteries
Idealism, integrity, austerity, sacrifice; these were the signatures of the middle class to which they belonged.
The festival aimed to raise the nation's spirits following the war and years of austerity, whilst promoting the very best in British art, design and industry.
They have misjudged the public mood at a time of austerity. The Sun
The govern-ment was forced to row back on an austerity plan that would have involved wage cuts.
His chin is firm, mouth straight and serious, a hint of austerity balanced by humour in the corners.
He also advised the Government on the austerity programme which actually turned out to be a disaster. The Sun
The austerity of that moment is overpowering.
The continuation of economic austerity policies under these conditions has provoked a wave of upheavals throughout the continent.
They should give more moral and political support, holding summits in these countries and explaining to their people why austerity is necessary. Times, Sunday Times
How will Spaniards or Greeks feel if foreign politicians impose swingeing austerity measures? Times, Sunday Times
The government could afford a slight relaxation of its austerity.
The deal to keep Greece solvent is founded on the notion that austerity is necessary if the country is again to prosper. Times, Sunday Times
The hard men at the finance ministry have promised to review the austerity measures at the end of this month.
The protesters are demanding the government rescind a series of austerity measures that would tax workers' wages and pensions.
Falls in the price of oil had provoked the government four years previously to impose an austerity programme.
It was in the era of postwar austerity that she became an influential innovator of fashion photography. Times, Sunday Times
Industrial action On June 6, 1990, there was a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest against the latest austerity measures.
After the lean austerity of the war years a growing number of Australian fashion designers were able to source a wide range of materials to create stunning garments for all manner of social occasions.
A lot of the architecture in the city centre as a whole dates from the turn of the 19th century into the 20th and is a mixture of Victorian austerity and art nouveau decadence.
Though the EU's rescue package has helped ease near-term concerns about a wave of defaults across Europe, concerns about the solvency of the indebted countries remain — whether governments, which are still running sky-high deficits, will be able to push through massive austerity measures for years to come remain. U.S. stocks advance even as euro euphoria fades
The austerity plan was likely to involve the dismissal of thousands of government employees.
This rebounds on students, who too have bought into the fiscal austerity mind set.
It is not surprising that Italy is under pressure from its northern neighbours to deliver more austerity. Times, Sunday Times
• Poll shows Lib Dem supporters ready to leave the party after the massive budget cuts announced by the coalition in the emergency budget• G20 communiqué expected to avoid criticism of austerity programmes in Europe Half of Liberal Democrat voters ready to defect after VAT rise
It was an era of austerity.
While her work features the austerity and functionalism of Modernism, it somehow seems softer, more human and witty.
The austerity measures affected primarily spending on health, social welfare,(Sentencedict) defence and overseas development assistance.
LISBON — Austerity measures aimed at bringing down Portugal 's towering budget deficit are crucial to regain creditor confidence, Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos said Saturday, while also acknowledging that they will slow down economic growth next year. Portugal Says Austerity Will Slow 2011 GDP Growth
He had been its implacable scourge, its unbending critic, preaching and practising austerity and revenge.
Some people would tell the story of your earlier life as an escape from the austerity and puritanism and greyness and lack of colour of Britain at that time.
Balka's art - introspective and executed with a minimalist austerity - continues to attract viewers.
When the government embarked upon its austerity drive in 2010 critics had two serious objections. Times, Sunday Times
Greece claims to have finalised an austerity package that will grant it an extra two years to meet fiscal targets. Times, Sunday Times
The hardline austerity crowd remains impervious to experience. Times, Sunday Times
There was no talk of austerity or the dreary old deficit. Times, Sunday Times
He also advised the Government on the austerity programme which actually turned out to be a disaster. The Sun
Working among the Calvinist peasantry in Staphorst, a village near Amsterdam, Sluyters adopted a sombre Expressionist style to depict the puritanical austerity of their lives.
The Government says this austerity is essential to reduce the national debt. The Sun
The austerity and uniformity of much modern architecture made sculpture superfluous.
Industrial action On June 6, 1990, there was a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest against the latest austerity measures.
Monday's summit failed to agree on policies for growth and on details of a new austerity pact. Times, Sunday Times
'Progressive austerity' won't allow us space to rethink our ideas; it will just make life miserable for lots of people in the UK, make life even more miserable for people in other parts of the world, and wage wars to restoke its engines. DJ Alchemi
He was a mix of austerity and kindness, often a sweet and solicitous friend.
But Mr. Gaspar said he believes that the austerity plan will lead to economic growth, by breeding what he calls a "structural transformation" of the economy—changes to labor market and judicial system rules, as well as an ambitious privatization effort. Portugal Unveils Deep Cuts
Wealth: Britons may feel squeezed by austerity cuts and stagnant wage growth but an influx of rich foreigners is transforming the landscape. Times, Sunday Times
And then the Government passes the problem on to the people with an austerity programme. The Sun
And a few weeks back in the Daily Telegraph, A.N. Wilson speculated that the primary value that will reascend is austerity. Melissa Biggs Bradley: Why Being Nouveau Pauvre Cheers Britain
In other words, this tradition suggests a subterranean relationship between pleasure and austerity.
His expression clamped into formidable austerity, then relaxed. The Rich Man's Royal Mistress
Like it or not, the beauty of mathematics springs from its rigorous austerity.
The austerity and uniformity of much modern architecture made sculpture superfluous.
EU diplomats said Socrates had privately reassured other leaders that no matter which government emerges after new elections, it would stick to the austerity program.
Cobbled together from 26 provisional decrees and executive orders, the economic-recovery programme is an ambitious inventory of investment and austerity.
The ECB head said there was no trade-off between austerity and growth, explaining that it was impossible to avoid a short-term contraction as the previous growth levels in some countries were not sustainable. Eurozone crisis live: UK refuses to contribute to €200bn IMF package - 19 December 2011
The crowds on the streets of Athens protesting against the austerity measures comprise the deserving and undeserving alike. Times, Sunday Times
A small degree of economic growth was recorded in 1995, despite a sense of economic crisis in the country, which led to the introduction of economic austerity measures.
her black dress--simple to austerity

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