austerity
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Flavio Bolsonaro has promised fiscal austerity in the face of rising public debt, a smaller state, lower taxes and a tougher crackdown on crime.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
It called on students to blockade schools on Tuesday in defence of "their rights and against budget austerity".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The challenge for Ellison will be to cut costs without the sort of austerity measures that defined Warner’s debt-reduction effort under Chief Executive David Zaslav.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
German carmakers are battling fierce Chinese competition, US tariffs and weak demand in key markets, with a string of job cuts and other austerity measures announced in recent times.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
From the austerity and tranquility of her medieval world, the penetrating gaze of this legendary Sybil of a holy nun would exorcise the horrors which materialize before our eves in the name of television.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
“These powers were allegedly acquired by Buddhist priests who performed austerities in the mountains such as ablutions under freezing waterfalls, meditation in caves, and severe dietary restrictions during extended periods of seclusion.”
From National Geographic ● Jan. 19, 2024
Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh faith, regarded fasting as inferior to the “truth” or “right action,” which he said was superior to fasting, penance or other austerities.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities.
From Slate ● Dec. 25, 2017
While builders on the Eastern Seaboard assembled cookie-cutter colonials by the thousands, Tucson developers instead adapted the austerities of International Style Modernism to their city’s magnificent though challenging terrain.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015
The life was eremitical and very severe in regard to silence, diet and bodily austerities; it was modelled after the rule of the Camaldolese, but various regulations were adopted from the Augustinian canons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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