Sentence examples for a strict austerity from inspiring English sources

In Greece, for example, Germany and other northern countries insisted on a strict austerity program.

Prime Minister David Cameron is proceeding with a strict austerity program whose success relies on an economy that is strong enough to withstand an increase in taxes and spending cuts.

The executive order came just weeks after Mr. Brown laid out a strict austerity budget for California, which is facing a $25.4 billion deficit over the next 18 months.

Mr. Cameron has pledged to strengthen economic ties with faster-growing economies, and hopes to build on his success in Beijing as a counter to a strict austerity program that is stifling the British economy.

Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, who sought to increase the incentive for Greek politicians to embrace a strict austerity plan in exchange for a substantial bailout from the European Union.

The irony is that Iran's attempts to make itself less dependent on imports and on oil mean that it needs this hard currency more than ever in order to import raw materials and spare parts.Last week, Iran's parliament approved a strict austerity budget for the fiscal year that begins in March.

So far, Germany has pursued a rather strict austerity policy to bring European sovereign debt down to acceptable levels.

Now, in a time of strict austerity, almost nothing seems possible which clearly won't do as a slogan.

Now, in a time of strict austerity, almost nothing seems possible — which clearly won't do as a slogan.

In response it announces a programme of strict austerity with significant cuts to public spending.

When the country realised it couldn't manage its debt in 2011, the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank stepped in to help, but only on the condition that Greece adopted a series of strict austerity measures – pension cuts, public sector layoffs – in exchange for four debt relief packages worth billions of euros.