Sentence examples for hawkish from inspiring English sources

"Given how hawkish she has been, that would be very hawkish indeed," said Lieven.

While Ryan sounded hawkish, almost eager for war, Biden came across as reluctant, seeing war as a last resort.

If any of them run, they would probably campaign to the left of Clinton, a centrist figure whose hawkish foreign policy is resented by some in the party.

The minutes of the latest Bank of England meeting showed a slightly more hawkish stance on interest rates, which has also unsettled investors.

Dervis Eroglu, his conservative predecessor, had a hawkish approach that from the outset of his five-year tenure thwarted negotiations.

"This would be a slightly more hawkish message than sent in February.

Instead of effecting regime change, he feels, sanctions are only likely to hit ordinary Russians and boost the hawkish sentiments they are meant to quash.

It sounds like a chapter from a cheesy spy novel: far-right European party, in financial trouble, borrows a big sum of cash from a hawkish Russian president.

The hawkish senator from South Carolina tossed out jokes and one-liners at a pace that would be considered rapid-fire in his native state.

"Bull!" a woman in the crowd exclaimed, as others groaned at the national security excuse cited by more hawkish lawmakers.

A more assertive presence in the East China Sea? Previews of the answers Clinton might give on the campaign trail suggest a leader who is more hawkish than Obama – possibly much more hawkish, foreign-policy watchers say – but who may be guided by a preference for alliance-based negotiations of the kind that informed her husband's presidency.