The phrase "austere measures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe strict or severe actions taken, often in the context of economic or governmental policies.
Example: "In response to the financial crisis, the government implemented austere measures to reduce the national deficit."
Alternatives: "strict measures" or "severe measures".
This task is doomed to failure unless the austere measures are seen as fair.
Such austere measures in an otherwise wealthy county are necessary to help manage a cumulative deficit of more than $300 million and to keep the interim finance authority from taking control of the county's financial operations, Mr. Gulotta said.
Those were among more than 100 austere measures included on a wide-ranging menu of possibilities presented to county leaders here today by Public Financial Management, a private firm hired by County Executive Thomas S. Gulotta to help Nassau close an estimated deficit of $100 million to $200 million.
Earlier this year, Tsipras after months of intense discussions with the country's creditors made a U-turn on his initial promises and accepted a new package of budget cuts, tax increases, and other austere measures in return for about $96.8 billion in aid.
Earlier this year, Tsipras – after months of intense discussions with the country's creditors – made a U-turn on his initial promises and accepted a new package of budget cuts, tax increase and other austere measures in return for £62.5 billion in aid.
Unless some opposition members abstain, the budget may thus not get through.What makes the budget harder to swallow is that it is be a fiercely austere measure, including for 2011 €6 billion in spending cuts and tax rises, savage welfare and public-sector pay cuts and a reduction in the minimum wage.
However, such compliance has come at a price: the imposition of austere cultural measures that are alienating the growing middle class, which is demanding a relaxation of some of the country's strict social traditions.
Austere intervention measures should be taken to ensure the prudent use of antimicrobials and curb the spread of high risk strains, and further studies are needed to describe the pharmaco-epidemiology of NTS at the national level in Ethiopia.
After supporting Senator Rand Paul's opponent in 2010, Mr. McConnell has done an about-face, voting for Mr. Paul's austere budget measure and working with him to legalize domestic hemp production.
Her task is comprehension rather than replication, and she uses a measured, lyrically austere prose, whose even tread barely betrays the considerable passion that drives it onward.
It is an indictment of capitalism and a practical argument for socialism in the world as it is, in Miliband's characteristic voice: measured, even austere, in confronting uncomfortable realities, yet deeply humane and optimistic.
