Sentence examples for forms of austerity from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, we avoided the more extreme forms of austerity, and our economy has been coming back — at least until this made-in-the-House-Republican-caucus crisis started.

Setting aside a few protected areas, such as the National Health Service, Osborne isn't merely arresting the growth of government programs, which is what modest forms of austerity often amount to: he's cutting them back, often drastically.

To him, it was a form of austerity and penance.

Rather than invest in the city and help revive its fortunes, the state enacted the most punitive form of austerity.

"We can be pretty certain there's going to be some form of austerity over the next five years," said Goodwin.

The 2008 global financial crisis caused a second shock, leading to greater government intervention in the form of austerity measures and new regulations.

Some business travelers are even being forced to cope occasionally with a particularly unattractive form of austerity when venturing into euro territory: doubling up in hotel rooms.

Yet imposing the primary cost of recovery on deficit countries in the form of austerity is likely to fail both pragmatically and politically.

There are a number of potential candidates for the problem; poor fiscal policy (in the form of austerity), the effect of demography, or Robert Gordon's ideas about the lingering impact of innovation.

NEWS President Xi Jinping of China has imposed a form of austerity on the country's free-spending elite officials, warning that graft and gluttony threaten to bring down the Communist Party.

With the economy still in peril and all the major parties calling for some form of austerity, voters in Finland went to the polls in April 2015 to elect a new parliament.