The phrase "austere authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of leadership or governance that is strict, severe, or lacking in comfort or luxury.
Example: "The austere authority of the principal left little room for leniency among the students."
Alternatives: "stern leadership" or "strict governance".
An austere ostrich of awesome authority was lecturing younger ostriches one day on the superiority of their species to all other species.
By James Thurber The New Yorker, October 13 , 1956P. 44 An austere ostrich of awesome authority was lecturing younger ostriches one day on the superiority of their species to all other species.
While I appreciate that in these austere times all local authorities are seeking to make savings, there is surely a strong argument for library services, and in particular children's library services, to be ringfenced against such cuts.
Writing for the Guardian, she said: "While I appreciate that in these austere times all local authorities are seeking to make savings, there is surely a strong argument for library services and in particular children's library services to be ringfenced against such cuts.
Diplomats oscillated between rushes of optimism that Tsipras might give ground and accept more reform at home, including cuts to Greek pensions and a growing realisation that, in his Syriza movement, there are forces that might never bow to austere demands from distant Brussels authorities for fiscal discipline, whatever the price for Greece.
The house of the Prophet's first wife Khadijah in Mecca has been turned into a public toilet block; the mosque of the Prophet's grandson was blown up; five historic mosques outside Medina have been razed; countless tombs and shrines have been bulldozed by the Saudi authorities, following their austere interpretation of Islam which discourages any risk of "idol worship".
The austere image fostered by the Islamic authorities is very different from the Iran I know.
Dozens of local and express bus lines will be eliminated, taking the brunt of an austere slate of service cuts by the authority.
The Muslim warriors are taken to be antimaterialists inspired by an austere ideal the very idea of submission to authority that we have lost.
The Muslim warriors are taken to be antimaterialists inspired by an austere ideal — the very idea of submission to authority that we have lost.
