Synonym: asceticism, nonindulgence. Similar words: posterity, austere, exhausted, asperity, cluster, criteria, hysteria, lackluster. Meaning: [ɒ'sterətɪ] n. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures).
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31. The Solidarity trade union staged a nationwide day of protests against government economic austerity policies on May 22.
32. The scandal fuelled popular resentment at time of high unemployment and economic austerity.
33. However, other austerity measures have been imposed which have checked spending on education.
34. Then, on top of the craziness and alleged corruption, populist Bucaram last month announced an economic austerity program.
35. The austerity plan was likely to involve the dismissal of thousands of government employees.
36. The austerity measures affected primarily spending on health, social welfare, defence and overseas development assistance.
37. She had longed to be a bad girl in those post-war years, those austerity years.
38. But a spiraling deficit and weakened franc forced him to adopt austerity policies in 1983.
39. Like his father there was something daunting, almost terrible about him an austerity suggestive of ferocity.
40. Meanwhile, the resistance movement settled down to an in-and-out-of-all routine relieved by austerity on the farm.
41. I at once sensed the physical austerity and the quality of social and intellectual superiority characteristic of the best public schools.
42. Compared to the austerity depicted at the start of the tour, the carved mahogany bed and canopy seem positively indecent.
43. Although the Benedictine rule imposed specific obligations upon each individual, it was rarely severe to the point of austerity.
44. In 1991 Soglo instituted an austerity program and privatized many state enterprises, a trend continued by Kerekou.
45. A community famed for exuberant high living suddenly decided that austerity was the better part of valour.
46. In the mid-1980s the government had already begun to implement austerity measures which cut spending and led to price rises.
47. A new economic commission was set up to monitor the success of the austerity measures.
48. The fifth plenum announced austerity measures to tackle the worsening economic situation and called for stronger party leadership and unity.
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49. But the public is persuaded that deficit reduction comes first, which spells austerity for science and much else.
50. He loved the country deeply. Beneath his bluff exterior was an immense austerity.
51. Again the overall approach is Spartan in its self-denying austerity and yet has a wholly characteristic eagle-eyed intensity.
52. She renounced the role of tragic widow with an austerity that irritated her would-be saviours.
53. They completely failed and were driven to policies of austerity before they even got started.
54. Various international bodies warned of the need to impose radical austerity measures without delay if adverse trends were to be reversed.
55. Many convey in the physical appearance of their subjects the traditional Roman virtues of austerity and respect for authority.
56. With important municipal elections due in October, they were unwilling to be associated with his highly unpopular economic austerity policies.
57. These comprised a respect for the old, for those in positions of authority and for austerity of manner and appearance.
58. A programme of strict economic austerity agreed with the International Monetary Fund is dead.
59. Voters would remember that austerity and unemployment had begun during the regime of Francois Mitterrand.
60. But it remained to be seen whether the ambitious plan would withstand the impact of possible future austerity measures.
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