The phrase "austere standards" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe strict, severe, or minimalist criteria or expectations in various contexts, such as education, design, or personal conduct.
Example: "The institution is known for its austere standards, ensuring that only the most dedicated students succeed."
Alternatives: "strict criteria" or "rigid guidelines".
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.
In a narrow sense, air travel — all travel — is voluntary, but by that austere standard, leaving your house is voluntary.
Life for foreign students on the Khartoum university's sweeping campus is austere by western standards.
The building seems austere by the standards of the flashy attention-grabbing forms that we have come to associate with Persian Gulf cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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.
Nesib (Antonio Banderas) wants to use the new wealth to build schools and hospitals in his land and raise living standards; the austere Amar (Mark Strong) wishes to defy progress and avoid the temptations of mammon and materialism.
