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Example sentences for: austerity

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The most common view was that the election was a huge blow to the global spread of U.S.-led fiscal austerity and privatization.
Severe austerity.
If Hinduism is more or less India’s national belief system, this may be because it offers something for everyone: mysticism and metaphysics for scholars, ceremony for ordinary people, austerity, sensuality, tranquillity, and frenzy.
The trouble was that all that austerity was a hard sell politically--especially because the economy was going into a nasty recession thanks to those high interest rates.
The country is basically being run by global corporations that, aside from their direct economic influence on who gets elected and what they do when they get elected (a large aside), control economic policy by essentially saying to politicians on all levels, federal, state, and local, give us fiscal austerity, low taxes, and less regulation or we a) will take our jobs elsewhere and b) won't lend you money.