Sentence examples for rules of austerity from inspiring English sources

"The lesson from Greece was that if you want to be in the eurozone you have to agree to rules of austerity".

"We're bound by the rules of austerity, but at a time of more rigorous standards, cutting out staff development puts us at a disadvantage".

It also symbolises how one kind of memory triumphed, one which associated itself with the new European order in which a seemingly unsinkable Germany ruled by the iron Mutti Angela Merkel dictates and enforces the rule of austerity over the rest of Europe.

The conservative principle of austerity has bled into the 2012 Republican presidential campaign.

But in an age of austerity tax breaks are ruled out.

And with civil servants hard-hit by the latest round of austerity cuts, working to rule has become the norm.Recent strikes by tax and customs officials and other finance ministry staff mean more delays in collecting revenues.

On Monday, Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the EU could not amend agreed rules on tighter fiscal discipline despite voters' rejection of austerity policies in several countries, including Greece.

Instead of balancing European rules with national prerogatives, he is more concerned to slow the pace of austerity.

The era of austerity has imposed a hiring freeze on museums, although new rules on autonomy allow the Brera more control over its own cash.

These were the men who tried and failed to use a mixture of austerity, tough policing and what we might now call "technocratic" rule to save German democracy.

Spain's new government began with an extra dollop of austerity; it now wants to accelerate the freeing of its rigid labour rules.