Sentence examples for are austerity from inspiring English sources
noun
Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
The choices are austerity or bust.
Whatever the government's spin, they are austerity," said Peter Attard Montalto, at Nomura International Plc.
Yet the only things you hear British politicians talking about are "austerity", the bedroom tax and a thousand new nurses for the NHS.
The narrative we have in Britain is that fiscal conservatives, those who want to eliminate the deficit, are austerity fanatics who care less about the social damage that balancing the books might cause than the nation's credit rating.
The buzz words are austerity and parity and you don't have to wait long for them to come up when the Plaid leader is interviewed.
We're also writing letters to the government and have tried to talk to them quite a few times, but they're just saying, these are austerity measures, everybody is suffering.
Their punishment would be austerity.
"This is austerity," she said.
