Sentence examples for austere exercise from inspiring English sources

Strand's photo of a snow-covered Central Park, caught in 1913 14, was an austere exercise in texture and silhouette, a solitary tobogganist disappearing into the distance.

Machaut's "Lai de la fonteinne" had the distinction of being the only "classical" European music heard in the first three days of Zankel Hall; in this context, it came off like an austere exercise in post-minimalist composition.

The Conservatives' final budget before the fall election, an otherwise austere exercise in showing off the freshly balanced books, commits more than $2 billion in security and defense spending.

The Conservatives' final budget before the fall election, an otherwise austere exercise in showing off the freshly-balanced books, commits more than $2 billion in security and defence spending.

The Israeli military said in a statement that the joint exercise, Austere Challenge 12, would take place during the second half of the year.

The specialist close supervision centres (CSCs), or "prisons within a prison", are sometimes referred as "a secret world within the high-security estate" and described as "like a submarine", with little light and austere cages for exercise yards.

Visitors such as Ignacio Ramonet, the French journalist who has interviewed Castro at length, have depicted an austere lifestyle of reading, exercise, simple meals and modest home comforts.

For the three-week exercise, called Austere Challenge, American military personnel operated Patriot land-based missile defense batteries on temporary deployment to Israel as well as Aegis missile defense ships, which carry tracking radars and interceptors.

John Ross, a spokesman for the U.S. European Command, which will conduct Austere Challenge, said the exercise "is not in response to any real-world event".

The planner, Lt. Gen. Craig A. Franklin of the Air Force, said the three-week drill, called Austere Challenge 2012, would be the sixth in a series of large-scale joint exercises and had been planned for more than two years.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last month that the planned maneuvers with Israel, dubbed Austere Challenge, will be "the largest joint exercise in the history" of U.S.-Israeli relations.