austerity

Recent months have seen trade unions mobilise against austerity measures with rolling protests that have brought tens of thousands of people into the streets.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Since coming to power, the government has slashed long-held subsidies as part of an austerity drive.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

"You really get that turning off of the tap of regeneration activity ... and austerity hit cities like Manchester particularly hard," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Roman Republic made much of austerity and rectitude; the empire it gave birth to could claim neither.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

As a result of these austerities — and of its continued, improbable popularity — “Perfect Crime” makes money, Ms. Russell said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2016

He did not believe that a girl of seventeen, luxuriously brought up and petted like "a bird of the Indies," could really desire to embrace the austerities and abnegations of a conventual life.

From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes