Sentence examples for example of austerity from inspiring English sources

General Musharraf, his aides said, is trying to set an example of austerity in a country where elected leaders have lived in mansions and traveled with huge entourages, staying in the best hotels.

And Chancellor Angela Merkel has led a bloc of countries fending off President Obama's calls for stimulus spending to combat the economic crisis, certain that the world should follow Germany's example of austerity.

Of course, saying this even while petitioning for easier repayment on Greece's mountain of debt is just another example of austerity's topsy-turvyism.

And current examples of austerity are anything but encouraging.

Today, however, I'd like to talk about a different but related kind of desperation: the frantic effort to find some example, somewhere, of austerity policies that succeeded.

This is the most obvious example of how austerity policies are not only harming America's present, but also imperilling its future.

For some economists, such as Megan Greene of Maverick Intelligence, Portugal is "the clearest example of how austerity is killing the patient".

NEW YORK TIMES Ireland Slides Back Into Recession  |  Though Ireland is held up as an example of how austerity can help a country emerge stronger from the European crisis, "Ireland's economy is disappointing its fans — again," The New York Times reports.

He cites the rise of Nazism in Germany after World War I as an example of how austerity-stricken economies are susceptible to authoritarian takeovers.

A year ago, conservatives gleefully trumpeted statistical studies supposedly showing many successful examples of expansionary austerity.

Alberto Alesina in particular has been cited, having authored a paper on historical examples of expansionary austerity.