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Example sentences for: austerity

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Now that fiscal austerity and higher interest rates have been imposed a more prosperous country could emerge so long as Brazilians stay committed to reform.
The International Herald Tribune, in a front-page article from Singapore by Michael Richardson, reported that the fierce austerity programs being demanded of Asian countries by the International Monetary Fund "could ignite virulent anti-Americanism" and "create dangerous instability in Asia."
Hashimoto has bowed to a "torrent of pressure from the United States, international investors, and elite Japanese business leaders" and swapped his trademark fiscal austerity policies for an economic stimulus package featuring lush tax cuts designed to persuade Japanese consumers to do some spending.
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 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.