Sentence examples for amount of austerity from inspiring English sources

But no amount of austerity and bureaucracy can take away the simple pleasures of being a GP.

I thought Europe's governments would spend any amount of money and impose any amount of austerity to rescue any number of banks from their recklessness and folly.

Kash focuses on the change from 2009 to 2011 as an indicator of austerity, although as he notes, falling GDP means that the true amount of austerity in places like Greece is much bigger than that.

Obama's Republican opposition wants a different sort of deficit-cutting package, but ultimately all seem to agree that some amount of austerity is necessary.

"And a new paper by Mr. Summers and Antonio Fatás, in addition to supporting other economists' conclusion that the crisis seems to have done enormous long-run damage," says Krugman, "shows that the downgrading of nations' long-run prospects is strongly correlated with the amount of austerity they imposed".

Some MPs said yesterday that a huge amount of "self-imposed austerity" would see the total expenses bill fall to the lowest level of any modern parliament.

Henley said ACE's investment in Hull during five years of austerity amounted to more than £15m and promised more to come.

Rajoy's argument is that he already has IMF-style structural reforms in place, so a further package of austerity would amount to overkill.

Setting aside a few protected areas, such as the National Health Service, Osborne isn't merely arresting the growth of government programs, which is what modest forms of austerity often amount to: he's cutting them back, often drastically.

After the government ordered ministries to find an extra €5bn (£4.3bn) in savings last week, Hollande is trying to spell out to voters that this increased "rigour" in trimming France's public spending does not amount to a punishing regime of "austerity" that will damage public services.

So actually, after eight years of austerity, the amount the government share of national income is forecast to be back to the level it was in the mid-2000s.