hawkish

How To Use hawkish In A Sentence

• He's the man who helped persuade hawkish editors at influential Newsweek magazine to oppose the Vietnam War.
• Obama was hawkish about Afghanistan during the campaign, despite well-aired fears that Afghanistan is a quagmire-in-waiting. War: Politics and Power
• Even the most hawkish leaders baulked at countenancing a right of pre-emptive action when the world's principal disputants both had nuclear missile submarines designed to evade a surprise attack.
• Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also opposes the creation of a Palestinian state.
• In a hawkish, emotional speech to the Romanian parliament, Tony Blair said Milosevic was the real target of the war.
• [G] iven the strong resistance to further QE from some hawkish Fed officials, the program that eventually emerges, most probably at the next [Fed] meeting in early November, will be too timid to have any real impact," said Paul Ashworth, senior U.S. economist for research consultancy Capital Economics. Bernanke Preps Markets For Further Fed Action Despite Questions About Impact
• The "dovish" Biden position called for relying primarily on assassination, while the "hawkish" McChrystal stance embraced both assassination and more troops. Fred Branfman: Petraeus Must Go: Mass Assassination of Muslims Threatens Us All
• At the same time, many on the left are deeply disappointed by his hawkishness. Times, Sunday Times
• For his grand home-coming, the characteristic hawkish frown and razor sharp intellect were cast aside to reveal the softer side of the man who brought history to the masses.
• The three more hawkish members point to still robust growth in the economy and nagging worries over persistent inflation, now being fuelled by record oil prices. Times, Sunday Times