The phrase "austere system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a system that is strict, severe, or lacking in comfort or luxury.
Example: "The university implemented an austere system of education that emphasized discipline and minimal resources."
Alternatives: "strict system" or "severe system".
MPs are bracing themselves for the arrival of the most austere expenses system in the modern world.
Mr Badawi was arrested in 2012 after writing articles criticising Saudi Arabia's powerful clerics on his blog advocating the liberalisation of the country's austere Wahhabist system.
Given that state-sponsored education cannot but address the psychological capacities of the pupils, only very austere political systems could be supported by a thorough-going skepticism about the human good.
His father was a schoolmaster at Rugby, the English public school where Thomas Arnold developed an austere and brutal system that was intended to mold boys into imperial leaders.
Oscar is the child of a funamentalist Christian of the most austere kind whose system of belief and practice reflects obsessional characteristics that will come to fine flower in his son.
By 1600 the Mughals in India had achieved a fairly austere and efficient state system, for which Akbar's genius deserves much credit.
The discovery of natural selection, the austere logic of reproducing systems, was only Darwin's first step.
Its fluidity encompasses the caste system, mythology and austere philosophical positions including atheism.
These essays describe a relatively austere, simple, and unified processing system capable of highly complex and various tasks.
Despite 35 years in politics, including five years as prime minister, Fillon has presented himself in the presidential race as an anti-system candidate and an honest, austere and "irreproachable" antidote to years of corruption scandals on the French right.
