Sentence examples for exact austerity from inspiring English sources

But as some countries continue to exact austerity measures, public research and development funding has been dramatically reduced, cutting off important pathways to the breakthroughs we desperately need to solve our problems.

Austerity is the exact opposite of what the economy requires.

Both here in the UK and internationally, governments and charities are facing increasing demand for their services at the exact moment austerity forces them to look for efficiencies.

NEW DELHI — After Pakistan's government signaled that it would seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, Prime Minister Imran Khan this week did the exact opposite of the austerity measures the global body is demanding: He inaugurated a public-housing project to deliver five million homes.

But austerity has exacted its own price, in social and personal pain.

Certainly, Khan is pushing the principle of "less from more", embraced by his predecessor Boris Johnson as an exacting and yet bracing austerity obligation, into adventurous new territory.

On Saturday, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of main opposition party, Syriza, said the double election would amount to a referendum over the deeply unpopular austerity programme exacted in exchange for emergency loans from the EU and IMF.

Dithering over Greece and key national governments' devotion to austerity began to exact a heavy toll last year.

Austerity was bound to exact a price but the price is proving bearable.

In the rich world, perhaps the heaviest toll is being exacted in the bailed-out countries of the eurozone, where the austerity policies enforced by their creditors have helped to cause a catastrophic collapse in demand.

Today, a government that has lurched to the right is about to embark on the exact reverse course, cutting tax credits so that more of the pain of austerity than ever before will be shouldered by the poor.