Austere Growth?

Austere Illusions

Indeed, We fear from our Lord a Day austere and distressful.

Indeed, We fear from our Lord a Day austere and distressful.

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

The austere budgets for the Bosnia and Herzegovina defence establishment in 2005 will make these efforts additionally demanding but, at the same time, the diminishing resources available underline the need for bold decisions.

This should be accompanied, as is the case with all well organized armies, by adequate welfare and recreation measures for all peacekeeping personnel, who are often deployed in some of the most difficult and austere environments.

And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow

And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow

Monks find their life s meaning in a most austere environment, and military boot camps are thought to build character. But the kind of fiscal austerity that is being practiced now has the immediate effect of rendering people jobless and filling their lives with nothing but a sense of rejection and exclusion.

In his message he made an austere but significant assessment of the contribution made by the Conference on Disarmament to the quest for a world free of the threat of weapons of mass destruction the negotiation and signing of the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1992 and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1996.

Owing to the serious shortage of residential housing in the south, in many places it would be necessary for the mission to provide suitable, albeit austere, living accommodations, both to its own personnel and to the staff of co located United Nations programmes, funds and agencies until they can establish acceptable living accommodations for themselves.

PARIS A new and important acronym has entered the French political lexicon QPC, which stands for the rather austere sounding Priority preliminary ruling on the question of constitutionality. Under QPC, which was part of the constitutional reforms that France implemented in July 2008, any citizen involved in legal proceedings can now contest the constitutionality of a legislative provision.

Led by the United Nations, contemporary diplomacy must become more austere in its spending and rely more upon the Internet and modern communications than on travel, in order to avoid becoming a heavy and debilitating burden upon countries and to ensure that the resources saved on organizations, expenditures and contractors can truly reach communities in need.

For example, labor force participation, which usually stops falling and starts rising after the business cycle trough, has been steadily declining over the past two and a half years. At least some monetary policymakers believe that recent reductions in the US unemployment rate, which have largely resulted from falling labor force participation, are just as valid a reason for shifting to more austere policies as reductions in unemployment that reflect increases in employment.

And here I reflect on the 1930 s, and on how historical events recur, appearing first as tragedy and then, pace Karl Marx, as yet another tragedy. Keynes begged the policymakers of his time to ignore the austere and puritanical souls who argue for what they politely call a prolonged liquidation to put us right, and professed that he could not understand how universal bankruptcy can do any good or bring us nearer to prosperity.