Sentence examples for has described austerity from inspiring English sources

The new prime minister appoints as finance minister the radical economist Yanis Varoufakis, who has described austerity programmes as "fiscal waterboarding".

The anti-bailout government of Greece's new leftist prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has been announced, with the post of economics minister – chief negotiator with the country's international creditors – going to a radical economist who has described austerity programmes as "fiscal waterboarding".

Scotland's first minister has described the UK government's "austerity economics" as "morally unjustifiable and economically unsustainable".

He promised to boost the economy by reversing what he has described as the former centre-right government's "deadly spiral" of austerity measures.

On Thursday, Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who has previously described austerity as "economic waterboarding," pledged to resign if Greece voted "yes" on Sunday and there will be pressure on Tsipras to do likewise in that eventuality, possibly triggering another election.

Hence the European Central Bank's decision to switch off emergency funding of Greece's banks after Tsipras called the referendum on an austerity scheme he had described as blackmail.

This rise in what has been described as 'economic suicides' 27 could reflect an acute response of the Greek population to the rapid and dramatic changes of socioeconomic conditions induced by austerity programmes.

Democracy has trumped austerity.

It has pushed austerity too far and too fast.

Over the last couple of years, the focus of Washington has been austerity, austerity, austerity.

It is best described as "austerity nostalgia".