The phrase "austerity toward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a strict or severe approach or attitude towards a particular issue, policy, or group.
Example: "The government's austerity toward public spending has sparked widespread protests among citizens."
Alternatives: "strictness regarding" or "severity towards".
Produced by Danger Mouse, the lankier half of Gnarls Barkley, it marked a shift away from austerity, toward more texture.
These are the goals of the Nicolas Berggruen Institute's Council on the Future of Europe, of which I am a founding member: First, the direction of European economic and financial policy must change, away from pure austerity toward growth.
Mr. Gorchov was most visible during the second half of the 1970's, when he, Bill Jensen and others started pushing American abstract painting away from Minimalist austerity toward something more explicitly expressionistic.
Unless President Obama can shift policy away from austerity and toward ways to bolster demand, job growth will remain sluggish and unemployment high.
Unless Mr. Obama can shift policy away from premature austerity and toward ways to bolster demand and foster investment, job growth will remain sluggish and unemployment high.
Mr. Hollande, in contrast, ran on a promise of rebalancing Europe away from austerity and toward growth, and his narrow victory is seen in Washington as a public rejection of governments imposing strict cuts on battered economies.
Godard was raised as a Protestant but, in Paris, was surrounded by Catholic iconography, and his films reflect the tension between images of a purity and austerity tending toward the invisible, and images of a full and teeming representation.
The body politic can have its own impact: Occupy Wall St. and its domestic/global offshoots are a positive sign of engagement, engagement that may not fit everyone's how-to book but that has shifted the tone of debate away from austerity and toward growth.
Alan Cowell has an interesting piece contrasting public attitudes toward austerity now with attitudes toward the austerity that was the norm in postwar Britain — and beautifully described by the late Tony Judt.
Many Congressional Republicans, pointing toward the British government's turn toward austerity, say their economic prescription is to cut government spending now.
Meanwhile, via Mark Thoma, Simon Wren-Lewis worries whether he has been too rude toward policy makers who forced a turn toward austerity in 2010, helping to derail recovery in advanced countries.
