Sentence examples for combination of austerity from inspiring English sources

A combination of austerity, scandal and lack of charisma has made the government deeply unpopular.

A combination of austerity and an increasingly needy population has left it short of money.

Growth is slowing, unemployment remains high, and a combination of austerity and scandal is stoking public discontent.

For all that, it's Nebbiolo that draws me back to Piedmont – it's that combination of austerity, firm tannins and sweet, ethereal fruit.

WHAT Greece needs now is market confidence that some combination of austerity and external assistance will prove enough to solve the country's budget mess without a debt restructuring.

To understand the political earthquake in Greece, it helps to look at Greece's May 2010 "standby arrangement" with the International Monetary Fund, under which the so-called troika — the I.M.F., the European Central Bank and the European Commission — extended loans to the country in return for a combination of austerity and reform.

A combination of more austerity, haircuts for creditors and further soft loans from rich countries will probably be what eventually solves the euro zone crisis.

A combination of government austerity, and the imposition of bigger capital safety cushions that are leading banks to retrench, seem all but certain to plunge the Continent back into recession less than three years after emerging from the last one.

Polo necks made a comeback, not just at Yves Saint Laurent but at Dries van Noten: their combination of monkish austerity and Bond-film-villain nastiness is perfect for the new chic-baddy look.

For years Spain and other troubled European nations have been told that they can only recover through a combination of fiscal austerity and "internal devaluation," which basically means cutting wages.

Birtwistle's refraction of these influences ancient and modern acquires another dimension in the way he divides musical time into blocks of material, as if a cubist painter were let loose on the familiar parameters of music – melody, harmony, rhythm – the music's power coming from its combination of structural austerity and unbound harmonic and melodic abrasiveness.