Sentence examples similar to austerity- from inspiring English sources

This month, the Portuguese government agreed with the main opposition party on more austerity measures to cut its deficit faster than planned, to 4.6 percent of Portugal's gross domestic product next year from 9.4 percent last year.

Analysts are in no doubt that the choice will be as definitive for the self-styled leader of Europe's anti-austerity movement, as the destiny of Greece itself.

And Lucas promised to be a beacon in the Commons for those who opposed what she called "five more years of savage austerity".

"At a stroke, this would make the implied cuts for non-protected departments and welfare slightly more plausible (if still very severe), mark an 'end to austerity' by the middle of the parliament and soften (at the margins) the pressure on the Bank to keep monetary policy on the floor".

Yanis Varoufakis, its colourful finance minister, said last week that Greece "went from a Ponzi scheme of unsustainable borrowing before the crisis to a scheme of Ponzi austerity after it".

The anti-austerity government, he said, had expected the talks to be hard.

"Your critique of the government's austerity strategy may never win back public trust and your proposals for the economy will never convince".

Is it the public sector workers who will march in their thousands tomorrow against austerity, or is it the "public" represented by the judge, worried that protesters are "prejudiced" against those who have everything and yet want more?

And cuts and austerity have a long way to run over the next few years.

They can't agree on the efficacy of money printing or austerity.

The problem, though, is that Greece wants to remain a member of the single currency while ending austerity – and that is not an option.