() Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
() Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
() Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(2) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(3) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(4) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(5) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(6) All of the parties have been trying to use Greece to their advantage.” On Monday, the governing People’s party pointed to the referendum to justify their decision to impose austerity measures during the height of the economic crisis.
(7) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
(8) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(9) Updated at 12.23pm BST 12.04pm BST As Mariano Rajoy and François Hollande prepare to reveal their austerity budgets (Spain goes on Thursday and France on Friday), they might be forgiven for casting an envious eye towards Australia where government statisticians revealed that the country is A$325bn (£200bn) better off than they'd thought.
(10) This proposal is a purely partisan move that will backfire on the government disastrously.” The Green party accused Osborne of making “efforts to limit the democratic scrutiny of his austerity agenda”.
(11) The budget red book contained a chart which suggested that the rich were indeed facing a bigger hit than anyone else, and Liberal Democrats were today pointing to this to justify the austerity package.
(12) "But if public opposition to further austerity measures hardens, the Greek government could find it even tougher to put the public finances back on a sustainable footing."
(13) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
(14) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
(15) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(16) The Attlee government was toppled by peacetime austerity that voters no longer trusted.
(17) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(18) Yesterday, John McDonnell spelled out the new Labour leadership’s public investment-driven economic alternative to austerity.
(19) Then Greece has another chance.” But the intervention by the IMF will undermine EU leaders who argue Greece must submit to a fresh round of austerity measures to release funds for debt repayments.
(20) The IMF itself came under fire after it admitted in its World Economic Outlook report that officials had underestimated the effects of austerity measures on economic growth.
Stour
Definition:
(n.) A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
(a.) Tall; strong; stern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Onlookers reported seeing the plane flying low before smashing into a field and coming to a standstill with its nose in the River Stour near the village of Throop.
(2) The Met Office warned that river levels were expected to continue rising along the Thames, the Severn and the Dorset Stour in the coming week.
(3) Set off from the old town hall and follow the path downstream along the Stour.
(4) Karl Sabbagh Newbold on Stour, Warwickshire • Might I suggest Ian Birrell samples the delights of Northern Rail's rolling stock on its non-electrified lines before claiming "we hurtle along in slick modern trains".
(5) 11.17am GMT The Guardian's Steven Morris is tracking the flooded river Stour in Dorset - the location of the only severe flood warning currently in operation.
(6) Updated at 12.26pm GMT 10.52am GMT Reports from Kent Online show that high waters breached the River Stour in Sandwich, where the Environment Agency issued one of its most severe warnings .
(7) The MCS warning that downpours are harming beaches comes as 13 flood warnings remain in place , mainly on the Severn and Stour rivers.
(8) The Stour Valley school plans a traditional core of subjects, based on the "gold standard of GCSEs" but tied in with this will be an awareness of which courses will prove useful at work.
(9) The cathedral city is prone to flooding from the river Stour and an amber flood alert is currently active.
(10) There's an increased risk of flooding from groundwater in Cranborne in East Dorset and Salisbury in Wiltshire plus river flooding along the River Stour and the Hampshire Avon.
(11) The warnings were for Preston beach, Lower Stour and Chiswell, where the Environment Agency sounded its flood siren warning of extreme danger to people and property on Monday night after the sea breached Chesil beach and spray crashed over flood defences.
(12) Grid reference: 52.8415, -1.4975 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com River Stour, Fordwich, Kent Fordwich is thought by some to be England's smallest town.
(13) Follow footpaths to Flatford and Dedham, from where you take the path to the left along the river Stour to arrive opposite Dedham Mill.
(14) Tributes have been paid to Egging, who is said to have guided the plane away from houses and people before it crashed into a field and came to a standstill with its nose in the river Stour near the village of Throop.
(15) We can just hope it all flows into the basement.” While the Bell, and the rest of Sandwich, sits some distance from the coast itself, it directly adjoins the River Stour, forecast to be swept by a wind-exacerbated tidal surge, feared to be the worse in 30 years, shortly after midnight, with another to follow 12 hours later.
(16) While the Bell, along with the rest of Sandwich, sits some distance from the coast itself, it directly adjoins the River Stour, forecast to be swept by a wind-exacerbated tidal surge – feared to be the worst in 30 years – overnight, with another surge to follow 12 hours later.
(17) After a swim, retrace your steps to the road and cross over to take the path opposite, which follows the Stour downstream towards Flatford Mill.
(18) Here's a summary of the latest developments and warnings: • Three severe flood warnings remain in place for Chiswell, nearby Preston Beach and the Lower Stour in Dorset.
(19) Updated at 2.53pm GMT 1.16pm GMT Summary Here's a summary of the latest developments: • Three severe flood warnings remain in place for Chiswell, nearby Preston Beach and the Lower Stour in Dorset after huge waves prompted the Environment Agency to sound its flood siren in Dorset.
(20) Karl Sabbagh Newbold on Stour, Warkwickshire • I fear the government’s imbalanced response to Charlie Hebdo will deepen the dangerous divisions in our society.