austerity
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Since coming to power, the government has slashed long-held subsidies as part of an austerity drive.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
With little room to raise taxes and voters rejecting austerity, the country’s net debt is projected to top 111% of GDP this year, while 10-year yields recently breached 5% for the first time since 2002.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 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
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
And now she wept, after her long austerity, as though she would never be able to stop.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
“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 other two penitential works, prayer and alms-giving, can in this case take the place of corporal austerities in the fulfilment of the Christian duty of penance.
From Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears by Carlo Giuseppe Quadrupani
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