Yesterday, it was essential to avoid austerity.
He said that austerity was essential because, if Britain lost control of its finances, it would lose its independence.
These funds will blunt poverty-inducing austerity, restore essential services, and put Europeans back to work.
Shadowed by Germany's deep-seated inflation taboo, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government stubbornly insisted that the pain of austerity was essential to economic recovery; the EU had little choice but to go along.
At a time of national austerity, it is essential for us to address this problem.
At the height of his austerity programme, as essential public services were cut to the bone, David Cameron's government raised the subsidy for grouse moors by 84%, to £56 per hectare.
To keep government borrowing costs manageable, however, he has been forced to take an axe to the deficit.Painful austerity is an essential condition for lasting growth, but it is not enough on its own.
As if to underline the point, Greek transport workers staged a 24-hour strike Thursday, bringing the transit system to a standstill, as a protest against the austerity drive deemed essential by Greece's creditors.
From Newcastle upon Tyne to Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and beyond to Conservative shires, English local government boasts pragmatic leaders struggling to deliver essential services – against the toughest austerity programme ever visited upon town and county halls – while, at the same time, boosting the economies of their patches with a string of initiatives that should put Westminster to shame.
Wales Green Party leader Pippa Bartolotti said the Plaid peer knew "Green policies and Green politics are essential" to "pull away from austerity and turn the agenda towards protecting and helping the next generation".
