Sentence examples for austere standard from inspiring English sources

In a narrow sense, air travel — all travel — is voluntary, but by that austere standard, leaving your house is voluntary.

But other observers noted that the E.C.B., by its austere standards, is now doing quite a lot.

"Harvard adheres to austere standards in every area of the university and I am honored to labor within that framework," the statement said.

Word of the payments drew conflicting reactions among those in the world of film documentaries, where show business values have been known to collide with the more austere standards of good journalism.

One of eight children, Farr grew up in abject poverty, even by the austere standards of Edwardian industrial Wales.

Already in De Magistro (389 C.E). Augustine is keenly aware that much of what we need to believe falls outside the austere standards of his Platonic conception of knowledge and understanding.

These standard, austere loan conditions reduce economic growth and deepen and prolong financial crises, creating severe hardships for the poorest people in borrowing countries and strengthening local opposition to the IMF.

Life for foreign students on the Khartoum university's sweeping campus is austere by western standards.