Sentence examples for unprecedented austerity from inspiring English sources

Under the Coalition government, the health budget has been maintained in an era of unprecedented austerity.

In response, we have had to impose an unprecedented austerity package, including deep cuts in public-sector wages.

"It is imperative this changes because, at a time of unprecedented austerity, ultimately the taxpayer foots the bill.

When the conversation moved on to what was happening under the government's unprecedented austerity programme, she choked up.

But the United States has also seen unprecedented austerity at the level of state and local governments, and this austerity has slowed the job recovery.

And we've also had exactly the wrong fiscal policy given that reality plus the zero lower bound on interest rates, with unprecedented austerity.

Yet, if his cinema is of an unprecedented thematic austerity and formal rigour, it's very far from being bloodlessly minimalist and sexless.

Based on the NAO data, Walshe estimates that the cost of Lansley's NHS reforms will be £2bn-£3bn atimetime of unprecedented financial austerity.

When we talk about public workers, that's pretty much who we're talking about: When we look at the unprecedented public austerity in this recession, we're basically looking at cutbacks on education and public protection.

This is actually a bad thing, because premature deficit-cutting damages our still-weak economy — in fact, we'd probably be close to full employment now but for the unprecedented fiscal austerity of the past three years.

Iceland's taxpayers must now foot the £2.3 billion bill for the first £22,000 in compensation to each British saver, as well as dealing with unprecedented economic austerity and 20pc lower salaries.