The phrase "austere terms" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe conditions or agreements that are strict, severe, or lacking in comfort or luxury.
Example: "The contract was presented with austere terms that left little room for negotiation."
Alternatives: "strict conditions" or "severe terms".
Hurtling toward the cliff in one lane is the electorate, with the threat that it will vote for parties who refuse the austere terms of the bailout agreed on by the "troika" of the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
We can recast the point about how we ought to judge in austere terms by saying that there is a certain normative constraint on our judgments of taste that is absent in our judgments about the niceness of Canary-wine.
The bullying never ended, and, in between times, Steinbrenner threatened the jobs of Torre's coaches and drove some of them, including Torre's first bench coach, Don Zimmer, and the austere long-term pitching coach, Mel Stottlemyre, into unwilling retirement.
Mr. Costa's style is invariably described as "austere," a critical term that can usually be translated as "stupefyingly dull," but in this case refers to his gorgeous but carefully controlled effects of color and framing.
This would be wizardry indeed.Waffle now, pain laterBoth Mr Kim and Rhee In Je, the candidate placed third in the latest polls, threaten to renegotiate the conditions attached to the IMF's bail-out: they consider the terms excessively austere.
For those of us who imagine the role in terms of austere yet injured dignity, Ms. Fleming's soft, vulnerability -- frail and fragile -- made an interesting contrast: a wounded dove in place of a moral presence.
Billed as a "special guest", Fatboy Slim's old-school rave turn proves not so much austere as stingy in terms of signature songs, which is surprising considering his Rockness godfather status (the festival grew out of a Fatboy Slim gig in 2006).
Tarso Genro, Lula's top political manager, declared that "the Palocci era has ended," a dismissive reference to Antonio Palocci, the finance minister who in Lula's first term backed austere fiscal and monetary policies to bring down inflation and stabilise the economy.
Retributivists can intend to impose punishments that will generally be experienced as more severe the more serious the wrong for which they are imposed for example, longer prison terms or more austere prisons knowing but not intending that different people will experience the same term in the same prison differently.
By European standards, British austerity has not, therefore, been terribly austere; government spending has fallen in real terms by only 7% since the Tories came to power in 2010.
Administration officials, who have termed the budget "austere," say the reductions are necessary to minimize the tax increase needed to close the budget gap left over from the Kean administration.
