Sentence examples for austerity card from inspiring English sources

While Mr. Basescu held the fiscal austerity card high as a sign of Romania's commitments to Europe, the country was sliding into poverty and chaos.

No new federal austerity is on the cards, and state and local governments are hiring again.

PARIS — France is preparing new measures to fill a 2012 budget shortfall, Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said Monday, but he insisted that austerity was not in the cards for the Socialist government.

At some point a coalition with Harmony Centre is on the cards, perhaps when the austerity era is over.

At some point a coalition with Harmony Centre is still on the cards, particularly when the austerity era is over.

Decision scenario: As we laid out at length on Tuesday, Greece faces only hard decisions involving some combination of: much more fiscal austerity than is currently in the cards, debt restructuring (also known as default), and leaving the eurozone.

"The Paperboy," the flaming wild card amid this introspection and austerity, is the director Lee Daniels's version of Pete Dexter's novel set in 1969 Florida.

The poster child for austerity.

Any decisions to increase spending or cut taxes in the short run should be taken in the knowledge that significant further austerity after 2020 looks to be on the cards".

Almost all of the austerity measures were regarded as inevitable, but the medical card removal was regarded as unfairly targeting the vulnerable elderly.

For many people, this would be the final straw in their relationship with a party that had destroyed their trust over the Iraq war, tuition fees, identity cards and a lack of opposition to austerity.