Sentence examples for a big austerity from inspiring English sources

So far, the Netherlands has not unveiled a big austerity package, but large-scale reductions in public spending are expected next year.

But (and it is a big but) austerity still seems to rule in the public sector, because pay and bonuses there actually fell 0.9%.

France has unveiled its budget for 2013, avoiding big austerity spending cuts in favour of higher taxes on the wealthy and big businesses.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md). said Wednesday's report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis was further proof that implementing "big austerity measures now will hurt the recovery".

Every so often, there's a big anti-austerity protest in the center of London.

Every so often, there's a big anti-austerity protest in the centre of London.

As London gears up for a big anti-austerity demonstration on Saturday, the police have been making preparations of their own.

In the early hours of this morning, housing and education activists occupied a London pub in the lead up to a big anti-austerity demonstration that's happening on Saturday.

The European Central Bank put forth the new plan over the objection of the German central bank, a big champion of austerity.

Here, from the IMF's Fiscal Monitor, is one measure of the overall fiscal stance for the euro area, the cyclically adjusted primary surplus (that is, what the budget balance ignoring interest payments would be if the economy weren't so depressed): That's a big move toward austerity — 1937 big.

"Obviously there's a big national anti-austerity demo on Saturday, but we are not the kind of activists who treat a march like this as the be all and end all of our activity," she said.