Sentence examples for on a strict austerity from inspiring English sources

In Greece, for example, Germany and other northern countries insisted on a strict austerity program.

Mr. Cameron has pledged to strengthen economic ties with faster-growing economies, and hopes to build on his success in Beijing as a counter to a strict austerity program that is stifling the British economy.

Prime Minister David Cameron is proceeding with a strict austerity program whose success relies on an economy that is strong enough to withstand an increase in taxes and spending cuts.

The executive order came just weeks after Mr. Brown laid out a strict austerity budget for California, which is facing a $25.4 billion deficit over the next 18 months.

The irony is that Iran's attempts to make itself less dependent on imports and on oil mean that it needs this hard currency more than ever in order to import raw materials and spare parts.Last week, Iran's parliament approved a strict austerity budget for the fiscal year that begins in March.

Spain is slowly emerging from the economic storm generated by the crisis, but Spaniards are still living under a strict austerity regime imposed by the EU.

Pressure on EU leaders to relax their insistence on strict austerity measures intensified on Monday after Spain revealed that its economy contracted in the last three months of 2011 and the cost of insuring Portugal's debt soared to a record high.

These signs of unrest, though, do not seem to be mellowing Germany's insistence on strict austerity.

Nevertheless, the troika has continued to insist on strict austerity, despite its role in keeping the debt-to-G.D.P. ratio high.

So the question now is not just whether Ms. Merkel will further relax her insistence on strict austerity but how far she thinks she can go in an election year, or perhaps how far she needs to go to prop up her own economy.

So far, Germany has pursued a rather strict austerity policy to bring European sovereign debt down to acceptable levels.