Sentence examples for moral austerity from inspiring English sources

And given that wealth continued to be as important as ever after Christianisation, how did the Roman world reconcile riches and moral austerity?

Ms. Handler seems like a cruel queen bee from an expensive college: There's something suspiciously sophisticated about how her jokes line up that suggests the moral austerity of a comic not of Ms. Rivers's bad-girl school: Tina Fey.

Sitting down and trying to make a moral argument against austerity to our elites is like addressing global warming by opening negotiations with the sea.

The moral appeal of austerity is deceptively high ("if it hurts, it must be doing some good"), but its economic ineffectiveness has been clear at least since Keynes's debunking of "the remedy of austerity" in the Great Depression of the 1930s, with unemployment and idle capacity due to a lack of effective demand.

The Council of Trent began sitting in 1545, introducing rigidity in dogma and austerity in morals.

In the seven months since the change of power in the House, the Washington discourse has shifted almost completely from the decades-long battle between both parties over how to allocate government resources to jousting over the moral high ground on imposing austerity, with seemingly none of the political or practical motivations that have historically driven legislation.

The first is that it tries to construct a persuasive moral argument against a case for austerity that hasn't been framed morally.

The religious institutions Ryan rightly praised in his speech would doubtlessly remind Romney and Ryan of a continuing need for moral discernment in a time of austerity.

Tories were both moral – even in the middle of an austerity drive they cut taxes – and economically competent.

Some more hawkish ECB officials worry that QE will lead to moral hazard by weakening governments' commitment to austerity and structural reforms.

Those questions about wealth and this whole argument around whether austerity is working, viable and moral sits right at the heart of what this play thinks about.