austerity

Now cities are largely on their own, as austerity and gridlock grip Washington.

Our debates about federal budgets still revolve around degrees of imposed austerity.

Last weekend, demonstrators took to the streets of Italy's capital to protest against government-imposed austerity measures.

A big theme for the last several months has been the end of fiscal austerity.

Walmart is about to teach everybody a lesson in how austerity can affect the consumer economy—and quick.

It now became evident to him that both he and the Brethren had hitherto manifested insufficient austerity in life and doctrine.

Austerity banishes familiarity from family life and engenders constraint.

The extreme plainness of her dress lent an air of austerity to her face, and her features were proud and grave.

This proposal is, in our judgment, a bold attempt to get back the "Principles of 1834" in all their austerity.

She viewed life with a certain austerity, and in literature she had fortified herself against the shocks of time.