They just see their communities under too much strain when there is quite enough austerity-driven stress already.
Labour, which has been steadily retreating from commitments to spend more, tried to stress austerity.
The economic downturn, coupled with government austerity and exam stress, means this figure is now probably much higher.
Plans of austerity and rigor, stress tests for the banks, reformed States that have broken off with Berlusconian antics, obviously, and no one can escape it.
He then set about preaching Buddhist reform, advocating a return to Theravāda ("Way of the Elders") Buddhism, from the Mahāyāna ("Greater Vehicle") form prevalent in Vietnam, and stressing austerity, Spartan living, simple worship, and personal salvation.
An "informal dinner" last month in Brussels generated a lot of media noise over the putative clash between Ms. Merkel, stressing austerity, and the new French president, François Hollande, pushing growth.
When Jean-Claude Juncker put out a tersely worded statement after the Greek people ignored his plea to vote in favour of further austerity measures, he stressed that he would now consult "the democratically elected leaders" of the other 18 eurozone members.
The class was one of several built under the wartime austerity regime, which stressed pure functionality above any considerations of style or decoration.
"Throwing 8 billion at the NHS is not going to solve the problem of why people keep going to the NHS, which is feeling stressed, austerity, loss of welfare," he said.
Indian philosophy lays stress on austerity and unencumbered, uncomplicated day-to-day living.
