Sentences with phrase «unpopular austerity policies»
Opposition Social Democrats won Lithuania's parliamentary election on Sunday after campaigning on promises to reverse unpopular austerity policies and boost social spending in the recession - scarred Baltic state.
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Forgoing his slicker, better - known brother David, it apparently bought into the younger Miliband's soft - left strategy of opposing the coalition's austerity policies, on the assumption it would fail and become wildly unpopular among voters.
The party put all its eggs in one basket by assuming that the coalition's austerity policy would be unsuccessful and unpopular.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).