austerity

Example Sentences

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She told MPs her choices meant there would be no "reckless borrowing" or a return to austerity and that NHS waiting lists and government debt would continue to be cut.

From BBC

He became prime minister just as austerity imposed under a 2001-2 International Monetary Fund programme eased, and he leveraged that rebound and a diplomatic pivot to the West to bring about a decade of prosperity.

From Reuters

"In a time of austerity, no local authority would want to pay for this, so we tried to raise all the money ourselves. We only needed £1,300 and we raised £2,000."

From BBC

Perhaps van Hove, for all his grim austerity, is actually an optimist at heart.

From New York Times

Numbers had been cut back even further for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, when only six people were on the balcony, in a show of frugality at a time of economic austerity.

From BBC