Sentences with phrase «days of austerity»

«In these days of austerity and cutbacks, the artist is saving ink.»

I think that in these days of austerity, students would probably roll up a slice of Gammon rather than splash out on a pig for the ritual.

In contrast, the performance of local authority overview and scrutiny committees, especially in these days of austerity, is, to say the least, patchy.

The bad old days of austerity and Greek - style chaos were over.

Not exact matches

In Gordon's view, Britain is not yet facing significant pressure from bondholders, making the austerity drive very much about the politics of the day.

The IBEX - 35 stock market in Madrid fell this week as the days of Spain's austerity agenda appeared numbered.

In a polarising referendum called by the radical leftist government of Alexis Tsipras at only eight days notice, Greeks voted by more than 60 % to 40 % in support of the prime minister, spurning the extra austerity demanded mainly by Germany and the International Monetary Fund in return for an extension of bailout funds.

Plenty of noise from everywhere about how we were going to spend big and the austerity days were over but based on what?

Any politician can rattle on about ending austerity - and by god, politicians of all stripes do these days - but there needs to be more.

In these days of financial crisis, austerity and expenses scandals, one doesn't have to go far to find citizens complaining that our democracy is in decline.

In fact, it was only last September that over 50,000 Mancunians marched against Austerity, a protest that intentionally coincided with the opening day of the Conservative Party Conference.

Instead the party struggled in vain with what then seemed to be the real issue of the day, the relationship between the state and «austerity» — that was not in any way the central concern of Blue Labour thinkers.

For signing up to the Conservative's austerity agenda and reneging on its pledge to scrap university tuition fees, the party saw its poll ratings plummet, routinely struggling to hit 10 % — this after the halcyon days of the 2010 campaign, during which some polls even had them in the lead.

The cynical assumption that Labour is following a 35 % strategy of cruising to victory on the back of disillusioned Lib Dem voters and austerity politics appears more convincing by the day.

This is Britain's version of groundhog day: every time George Osborne updates us on the state of his austerity plans, we're told there are five years to go until the misery is over.

After seven years of painful austerity, our workers deserve a break — and under a Labour government, they will have the opportunity of four more days off a year.

Labour's panda strategy — relying on a core vote, bruised by austerity and better motivated than in the dog days of 2010, plus Lib Dem defectors and Tory defectors to UKIP — may be effective even if it is far from magnificent.

The shadow chancellor greets me by offering a mince pie, and quickly devours one himself after a long day of political combat marked by George Osborne's speech on austerity.

This especially surprising given it is politically malleable and pertinent to the foremost policy issue of the day: fiscal austerity.

The strikes are the most serious action in a continent - wide day of protest against austerity measures, which will touch London with a rally in Westminster tonight.

Writing in the New Statesman within days of the Conservative - Liberal Democrat government taking office, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress dismissed the coalition's plans as «madness» and complained of «needless austerity».

At the end of the day, growing inequality and austerity is hurting everyone on low and middle incomes.

And in the public mind, energy conservation was associated with austerity, the three - day week and that impeccable piece of ministerial advice to clean your teeth with the lights out.

Bounce - back situation # 1: Youve Been Fired The day you get the news, put yourself on an austerity budget, says money expert Jean Chatzky, author of Money 911.

Upstairs, Owens spends his habitually routine days designing in the third floor studio, while the hushed austerity of the fourth and fifth floor living areas may suggest a modern hermitage, inhabited by a particularly devout monk of fashion.

The poignancy of her dad's modest family home and his death bed, moved downstairs to the front room in his final days, reinforces the severity and austerity of Ronit's family background - and also how sensationally transgressive her renewed affair with Esti is.

Instead it borrows the conceit of Scheherazade (Crista Alfaiate) telling nightly tales to her kingly husband in an effort to stay alive, but bends those stories so that they might pass comment on a modern - day Portugal crippled by austerity measures.

We have emerged from the darkest days of recession - level austerity.

It's also a time when parents, teachers and students in places like Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington DC are feeling more dread and despair than the excitement that usually accompanies the first day of school, because we can see so how the privatization and austerity moves in these cities are threatening every fundamental of our children's education.

On May Day, thousands of Puerto Rican teachers, parents, and students launched strikes and boycotts to push back against austerity measures that would close nearly 300 schools, lay off 7,000 teachers, convert public schools into privatized charters, and cut public sector pensions.

One day Gwen said, moving a muffin to her mouth, that she was touched by the «austerity» of my short story — which was based, but only roughly, on my response to the Russian icon show at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

While the austerity crisis continues in Athens, expat Jennifer Barclay reveals life goes on as normal only a day's boat ride from the capital on the island of Tilos More

In typical austerity - defying fashion one New York gallerist told me yesterday that the first day this year was «busier and buzzier» than she had ever seen it, another told me that there was quite a different crowd than normal - and an unusual number of new collectors.

At the same time, these agencies themselves are under scrutiny in these days of budget cuts and economic austerity.

But it is LSIA 1854 that is now under the spotlight, as a result of present day austerity measures and the plans of many local authorities to sell off long established museums and libraries to make ends meet (see the Financial Times 29 March 2011 «Councils in a bind as library sell - off falls foul of Victorian law»).