Sentence examples for austerity from high-quality English sources.

• “I know—austerity sucks,” Obama said.

• Austerity can unnerve markets, not calm them.

• “We will end austerity in Scotland,” she said.

• There is no appetite in any developed country for further austerity.

• “We are now going to feel the full force of austerity in council services.”

• “There are no convincing arguments for austerity in its current form,” he argues.

• The truth is since 2008, all we have been offered is various versions of austerity.

• In February Italy’s voters rebelled against their political class and European austerity.

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• Rather, Labour's prohibition was upon coalitions which promoted austerity, however defined.

• “And so it is an important case study to better understand the implications of an austerity approach.”

• But they do accept that austerity did not prevent the recovery, although this was from a very low starting-point.

• The big winners of a tough year have been the parties that have consistently opposed austerity, above all the PVV.

• However, Mr Corbyn goes too far when he declares: “There is clear and mounting evidence that austerity and inequality are killing people.”

• Molyneux reckoned that few in May’s cabinet were likely to have much idea what the prime minister meant when she proclaimed the end of austerity.

• (Under the terms of the bailout, which was extended by four months in a deal signed in February, Athens must get approval for any anti-austerity measures.)

• However, the economic imperative for austerity and restructuring is already putting the governments of the euro zone's troubled periphery under severe strain.

austerity sentence examples

• If anything is likely to provoke a softening of the austerity-first line, it is this evidence that Merkel’s austerity measures are starting to prove unpopular at home—given that she faces a general election next year.

• In his juju epic Austerity Measure – which is so long, I thought at one point it would outlast the current age of austerity – Chief Commander Ebernezer Obey addresses the hardships that followed Nigeria's oil boom in the 80s.

• Over the past few years the SNP has condemned the Conservative Party in Westminster for austerity measures and this surprising right-of-centre budget from the SNP will be seen as an act of treachery to those who voted for a party claiming to be against any form of austerity.

• "They complained about what commonly gets called austerity 10 years ago, which we considered was a necessary way of recovering a broken economy at that time and when we, in a sense, cancel austerity and say 'we're back to where we want to be, we're going to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in Wales', the same people complain," he said.