Sentence examples for rigid austerity from inspiring English sources

Yet all the troubled countries are being told — largely by Germany — to adhere to rigid austerity.

Demanding rigid austerity from them as the price of European support has lengthened and deepened their recessions.

It would also leave the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, looking more isolated in her insistence on rigid austerity measures as the way out of the euro crisis.

The French president, François Hollande, sought to move the consensus away from the rigid austerity favored by Germany and its allies, and toward measures to stimulate growth.

While adhering to fundamental Stoic teaching, Panaetius tempered the rigid austerity of the ancient Stoa and introduced a new humanist note.

"The turnout today reflects the unhappiness of unionists with the German government's crisis policies and the rigid austerity measures in Europe," Mr. Sommer told crowds in Stuttgart.

But the rigid austerity-focused response to Spain's crisis and the strictures of the nation's membership in the euro zone have prevented any similar recovery from taking hold.

The simple timber shingles on the exterior speak to traditions in the region, but the rigid, massive austerity of the space is thoroughly modern.

The most worrying electoral situation is in Greece, which seems to be mired in permanent recession and unable to comply with the rigid demands for austerity made by its European partners.

During the euro crisis, the Netherlands has been tougher even than Germany in demanding austerity and rigid fiscal rules.

Nick Malkoutzis is deputy editor of the Athens daily Kathimerini and editor of economic analysis site MacroPolis When Greece joined the eurozone in 2001, entry happened without an adequate public debate, without anyone explaining that the EMU came with a severe institutional framework and a rigid logic based on austerity and neoliberal ideology.