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Example sentences for: austerity

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Since then, austerity has curbed Mexican buying of European luxuries, and higher tariffs have helped stem the influx of cheap Asian textiles and footwear that threatened its low-end industries.
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.
Severe austerity.
The most common view was that the election was a huge blow to the global spread of U.S.-led fiscal austerity and privatization.
Both the NYT and LAT emphasize that Indonesian president Suharto has received more international attention, in the form of visits from U.S. and IMF delegations and calls from numerous foreign leaders, than he has in years, and that he seems to be responding with a real austerity pledge, including the postponement of several major government investments in the dubious projects of family members.