Sentence examples for growing austerity from inspiring English sources
The police figures include a 7% rise in shoplifting offences – one indicator of a growing austerity gap.
The talks took place against a background of growing austerity fatigue in Europe, and concern that the region's focus on reducing deficits and debt risked driving some economies into a downward spiral.
While there is growing "austerity fatigue" in Europe, and this might provoke a crisis, the overwhelming result from U.S. political studies is that the level of unemployment matters hardly at all for elections; all that matters is the rate of change in the months leading up to the election.
Few Europeans, however, are eager to support Greece's "dolce vita" when they themselves face growing austerity.
Now allowed to roam freely, in an atmosphere of growing austerity-driven poverty and despair, the far-rightists have also rallied support on the back of fury over yet more tax rises and budget cuts, the price of further rescue funds for the debt-stricken country.
The uprisings in the Middle East and the growing austerity-induced unrest among workers in the US and Europe have provided new hope for environmental movement leaders who for years have struggled to mobilize the public to confront the looming catastrophes of growth-capitalism.
Finally, the Europeans need to find some way to get their economies growing again; austerity by itself is a self-defeating strategy.
Figures from the pressure group One showed that Europe had failed to meet pledges made at the Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005, and it warned that growing budget austerity had "spilled over into life-saving programmes".
But even as a growing anti-austerity movement sweeps across the currency union, Mr. Hollande's room to maneuver could be far narrower than he would like to think.
Mr. Samaras, who opposed the first bailout as opposition leader in 2010 but supported the second one in February as part of Mr. Papademos's government, has been treading a fine line by simultaneously honoring Greece's loan agreement and pushing back against it, hoping that the growing anti-austerity sentiment in Europe will bolster his position.
… Mr. Padoan said the growing perception that austerity has been futile is incorrect.
