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
Economists noted, though, that the tone of the minutes of the December MPC meeting had turned "hawkish" - suggesting rate rises are now more likely than a second round of quantitative easing. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The South is more hawkish on foreign policy, according to the data, while the East and West Coast states are the most dovish.
One ministry official wondered whether the U.S. was under 'external pressure' to be more 'hawkish' on human rights in Egypt or whether the U.S. intervention was 'retribution' for U.S. Obama Proposed Cutting Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt
Her increasing 'hawkishness' extends beyond the Iraq conflict and into some constitutional rights issues. Jeanine Molloff: Missouri: The Triangulation Of Senator Claire McCaskill
They have hawkish noses, receding chins and luxuriant mullets that fall to their jeans.
His hawkish features narrowed as they studied me.
He is one of the most hawkish members of the new cabinet.
With a top political adviser, Bill, who successfully shunned the neo-cons, I believe that HRC's so-called hawkishness is a deliberate compensation for the fact that she might not get credibility as a POTUS because she is a woman. Poll: Obama, Romney Ahead In Iowa
Here journalists could be hawkishly monitored.
His nose was hawkish but it suited him, as did the high cheekbones and cynical quirk of his mouth.
It's not that the secretaries of State and Defense are always like-minded: Rumsfeld is widely and not inaccurately seen as a hawkish "go it alone" interventionist, while Powell tends to take a more cautious and "multilateralist" approach. Chemistry In The War Cabinet
I was reading yesterday that she is "doveish", which either gives a new meaning to the word, or means "hawkish" is almost unimaginable. Angela Merkel Barbie
There's a growing view among traders that Washington sent out some memo to coordinate everyone to start talking hawkishly? Lawrence G. McDonald: The Zero Transparency Policy in Our Financial Reform Process and What it Means for Your Investments
The more hawkish members are focused on the better domestic data. Times, Sunday Times
Beatrice's father was a wiry, elderly-looking gentleman with a frizzy gray goatee and a bent, hawkish nose.
All of that newfound hawkishness in Boston surely sounded odd to many of the decidedly anti-war delegates.
The paper started out hawkishly, echoing many of Bush's arguments and calling war ‘an operation essential to American security’.
You’ve got in here the press’ natural cynicism and the fact that it’s better, career-wise, to be dubious of big pronouncements like this — when they run * against* hawkishness, that is — than it is to accept them. I Get Around | ATTACKERMAN
Her hawkishness is just a ploy to ensure Bush's re-election so she can run against Bill Frist (Frist? December 2003
She positioned herself hawkishly on Iran and Palestine, telling an audience in Princeton two years ago that, “We cannot and should not – must not – permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons.” Clinton Losing Precisely Because She Dismissed "Activist Base," Progressive Leaders Say
It's a mistake to think that we can solve the problem simply by speaking more hawkishly and voting with Republicans on military matters.
In view of integral rank circumstance is relatively stable 2006, hawkish's expression is highlighted especially.
If anything, the Democrats have the more hawkish record on foreign policy.
His remarks impute to Jewishness itself a hawkish pro-Israeli bias.
In all of his hawkish bravado, Cheney has never explained why he could not find Bin Laden, or why he "dithered" as the Afghanistan war string along for 8 long years. Afghanistan: Pay for it or charge it?
The more hawkish members are focused on the better domestic data. Times, Sunday Times
Although he might not agree with my use of the term "Crackpot Christians," Kevin Phillips is certainly correct when he claims that "the radical side of U.S. religion has embraced cultural antimodernism, war hawkishness, Armageddon prophecy, and in the case of conservative fundamentalists, a demand for government by literal biblical interpretation. Crackpot Christianity and America's Current Moral Degeneration
From the surface, he seems WAY too hawkish, and an Executive going to war without Congressional authority, though definitely precedented, is still scary as hell. Duh pookie
Tall and slim, his neatly-parted silver hair and rimless spectacles sit atop a hawkish nose and ice-blue eyes that are almost a caricature of the Prussian officer.
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
Even in hawkish circles, the closer war has come, the less enthusiasm there seems to be for it.
Reagan earned his bona fides on two issues - supporting big business and claiming he was hawkishly anti-communist. Reviewing David Cromwell and David Edwards' "Guardians of Power"
Its head bore two glowing, red, pupilless eyes, a hawkish beak and rows of gray, razor-sharp teeth.
You are suggesting that his hawkishness here might have had something to do with what you call San Antonio's "Pentagon economy"? Oral History Interview with Maury Maverick, October 27, 1975. Interview A-0323. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
My own experience is very hawkish; having grown up in an environment full of school beatings, constant humiliation, and friendlessness, I felt as though I worked for every success I had. Free free, set them free
Since Washington's hostile and hawkish policies have always been against the Iranian nation, this defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation. Sound Politics: "Are Iraqi rebels cheering Dems big election wins?"
I really did want to learn the instrument and I was scared to death that the tall, slender woman with the hawkish features wouldn't like me and would call the whole thing off.
Since John Kerry's 2004 campaign, hawkish Democratic security and political consultants have asserted that Afghanistan is a good and necessary war in comparison with Iraq which they label a diversionary one. Tom Hayden: Obama's Wars
Anyway, the wealth of info behind that infographic on the website is fascinating and a little scary, if potentially hawkish.
At times he sounds positively hawkish. Times, Sunday Times
A hawkishly handsome man of seventy-one, al-Masri was born in Nablus and graduated from the University of Texas. In a Ruined Country
That is making it nearly impossible to craft monetary policy that is both hawkish on inflation, and doesn't throw huge economies deeper into the slough of economic despond.
It's an unglamorous performance and the director makes full use of her hard, hawkish features.
He leaned forward, his sharp, hawkish nose looking almost absurdly dangerous.
He has demonstrated by his hawkishness on Kosovo and Afghanistan that he is willing to use force to defend American ideas and interests.
Though hawkish himself, he is regarded as pragmatic in his approach.
The president is hawkish on foreign policy.
Alan Alda: "Hawkish Hawkeye haters name-check him as a kind of flouncy, male GreenCine Daily
That injects his analysis with a tough-minded realism that is often lacking in challenges to the hawkish view of the world.
The central bank's rhetoric in the policy statement remains hawkish, recognizing that the economy is growing above trend, that upside risks on the 2011 inflation outlook remain under higher oil prices, and that rising inflation expectations may impact on future wages and trigger domestic demand-pull driven inflationary spiral," said Vincent Tsui, an economist at HSBC. Malaysia, Philippines Raise Rates on Inflation Worries
When that man was in charge of monetary policy, he was known as the most hawkish Reserve Bank governor in the entire developed world.
Then there's Congress on both sides of the aisle and presidential candidates hawkishly posturing for whatever they imagine it gains them. Middle East Madness
Her school is conservative, but hardly unique in its hawkishness.
He is needle-sharp, ebullient and hawkishly bright.
What I find illuminating - and, frankly, horrifying - is that there are people for whom he is not hawkish enough.
His nose was hawkish but it suited him, as did the high cheekbones and cynical quirk of his mouth.
The 62-year-old Pacino looks very different from the hawkishly greying Don imagined at the end of The Godfather Part II.
The new cabinet has something of a hawkish feel to it.
Hillary Clinton should stay on the ballot and give Americans a TRUE choice: not too left and not too right not too old and not too young not too hawkish and not too doveish Clinton campaigns in SD, hits McCain on Farm Bill
He had a hawkish nose, a feature that marred his otherwise handsome face.
hawkish congressman
He now sits on the powerful Defense Policy Board, a hawkish semi-official ideological body that advises the Pentagon.
He needs support within the army, and many senior generals are hawkish.
The "hawkishness" about her that many here have commented about would seems to me to be an attempt to counter the (wrong) perception that a female would not have the cojones big enough to deal with the likes of Mahmoud in Tehran, Kim in Pyongyang or Hugo in Caracas. Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran
But I think part of HRC's so-called hawkishness is to counter the perception that a woman would be too weak to be POTUS. Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran
Clearly, being hawkishly pro-Israel fits directly in with this ideology. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Neoconservatism a “Jewish” Movement?:
But he was in unexpectedly hawkish mood as he said: ‘No dope case can tarnish the Games.’
Too hawkish an approach has undeniable costs by making capital more expensive and stifling innovation. Times, Sunday Times
Not a war resister, not a draft dodger as thousands before him who sought refuge in Canada from conscription during the Vietnam era, but a bolter, an abandoner of fellow soldiers – those who went, avidly or reluctantly, hawkish or dreading combat to the bone. Rosie’s On The Money « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Gilts maintained their strength through to the close, despite the depressive effects of hawkish comments from an ECB official. Times, Sunday Times
But I think part of HRC's so-called hawkishness is to counter the perception that a woman would be weak to be POTUS. Poll: Obama, Romney Ahead In Iowa
As long as these hawkish tones continue from the central bank governor, demand will likely increase for sterling. Times, Sunday Times
The agreement will not satisfy the more hawkish member of the cabinet.
As long as these hawkish tones continue from the central bank governor, demand will likely increase for sterling. Times, Sunday Times
So, obviously, the problem isn't fraulein Hillary ... it's all the pinko hippies with their Soros $$$ hating on her hawkishness. Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats
If the committee Republicans can be persuaded that this is simply a way for Democrats to go after a hawkish official because of his views, if they see it as what "The Wall Street Journal" editorial page called a mugging, Bolton is going to survive, because even internationalists like Chairman Lugar are not going to deny the president a choice on policy grounds. CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2005
| Reply | Permalink she's more hawkish than feingold. much less so than lieberman. Election Central Saturday Roundup
A few months ago his views were all the rage in hawkish circles.
He had what could appropriately be called a hawkish look. LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM
But even this hawkishness hasn't spared him from set-tos with conservatives.
The president is hawkish on foreign policy.
He became known for his hawkish views against the Soviet Union.
There is this view that Washington has sent out some memo to coordinate everyone to start talking hawkishly. Battle Lines Drawn on Fed's Next Moves
The president is hawkish on foreign policy.
I was at the peak of my hawkishness about the cold war, and that was the perspective from which I was teaching.
Too hawkish an approach has undeniable costs by making capital more expensive and stifling innovation. Times, Sunday Times
Israeli political leaders are depicted as 'irredentist', 'hawkish', and CAMERA Snapshots
Oliver Morgan on Jay Garner, the hawkish head of the Pentagon agency that will be handling lucrative reconstruction deals.
That is making it nearly impossible to craft monetary policy that is both hawkish on inflation, and doesn't throw huge economies deeper into the slough of economic despond.
After the cold war, leaders who had been brought up on a diet of protest and peace marches became the most hawkish political generation yet.
Front and center, at least in the early chapters of this "Prey" episode (others include "Shadow Prey," "Wicked Prey" etc.) is Weather Karkinnen, the surgeon wife of the Porsche-driving, hockey-playing, "hawkish" - nosed Minnesota State Police investigator Davenport. Book review of John Sandford's "Storm Prey"
This hawkish talk did not impress his audience, who reacted with silence.
Such statements come from hawkish traditionalists peeved that they didn't get the all-out war they wanted.
It was an about-face for Moyal, a member of the hawkish Likud Party, who has been calling for the army to invade Gaza to end the rocket attacks.
In his black, boatlike cockaded hat, his hawkish face fierce and unyielding in the streaming storm, Jones must have seemed like a madman compared with the diffident or easygoing merchant captains most sailors were accustomed to. John Paul Jones
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.
Too hawkish an approach has undeniable costs by making capital more expensive and stifling innovation. Times, Sunday Times
Yet above that hawkish nose, his eyes still held that knowing look.
He had a hawkish, sharp-eyed look about him but both he and the other man deferred to Henderson. LOST SUMMER
The second category, those that could be described as hawkish on Israel, Mr. Mearsheimer calls the "New Afrikaners. Professor Mearsheimer and His Useful Jews
I am told that tonight on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer:, the reputationally hawkish Congresswoman and national intelligence expert Jane Harman talks about the growing unease among Congresssional democrats about what is happening in Afghanistan. Steve Clemons: Afghanistan and Health Care Making Democratic Disharmony Structural
§ Israeli political leaders are depicted as 'irredentist', 'hawkish', and 'ultra-nationalist'. The New Republic - All Feed
Even the more hawkish leaders have had peace as their priority, often making the boldest concessions.
Some began a move to the right, to an even harder and more hawkish anticommunism.
Gilts maintained their strength through to the close, despite the depressive effects of hawkish comments from an ECB official. Times, Sunday Times
A hawkish nose stretched out from his face and golden-silver hair fell around his shoulders.
Yes, McCain will lose because of his "hawkishness" stance on Iraq. Paul: Not ready to endorse McCain, likes Obama's foreign policy
But the hawkishness of Mr Cameron and his French brother-in-arms will be rather beside the point if they cannot find allies. Instead of fearing another Iraq, the west must do right by Libya | Andrew Rawnsley
NATO ally Turkey has shown no sympathy for the hawkish stance taken by London and Washington.
James Macintyre’s piece is well worth reading but I must admit I’m slightly puzzled by this piece of analysis: "... on defining international issues such as the invasion of Iraq (unlike Clinton and certainly unlike Cameron), Obama's position was closer to that of mainstream Europe - which, as led by President Jacques Chirac of France, tended to be more 'doveish' than 'hawkish'. Washington or Whitehall whispers?
The "hawkishness" about her that many here have commented about would seems to me to be an attempt to counter a perception that a female would not have the cojones big enough to deal with the likes of Mahmoud in Tehran, Kim in Pyongyang or Hugo in Caracas. Poll: Obama, Romney Ahead In Iowa
My point, though, was not to suggest that hawkishness is always wrong.
But this hawkish consensus, if it ever really existed, appears to have broken down.
I'm probably the most hawkish person I know on the subject.

How To Use Hawkish In A Sentence

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