Sentence examples for hawkish it from inspiring English sources

Liberal or conservative, libertarian or paternalistic, doveish or hawkish, it has never been clear.

"And so as much as Republicans might want to sound hawkish, it's tough to sound hawkish on a conflict where your rationale for being there has evaporated".

If President Obama's Nobel speech seemed occasionally hawkish, it may only be because winning the Nobel Peace Prize has put him on the defensive.

President Obama's depiction of just wars is not, fundamentally, contradictory to President Carter's acknowledgment of war as an occasional necessity, but one wonders how much less hawkish it might have been had he not been on the defensive.

The bank is likely to remain hawkish until it is sure that it has stifled any rebirth of an inflationary mind-set.

It all sounds very hawkish but it is a policy that is exciting controversy - how do you hit someone back without causing damage to someone else on the way, or taking out the servers of an ISP that the attack was routed through?

If the FOMC's "dot plot" is as hawkish as it was this time last year when it indicated four rate hikes in 2016, then we can expect a jump in yields and sharp downward correction in equities.

JERUSALEM — Shimon Peres, Israel's president and elder statesman, spoke out Thursday against the prospect of a lone Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, a message that contradicts the hawkish, go-it-alone line emanating from the offices of Israel's prime minister and defense minister.

Burke is generally perceived as hawkish when it comes to keeping contact in the game.

But they aren't single-issue voters and they're not uniformly hawkish when it comes to Israel.

He is on the Defense Policy Board, a group of former officials with a generally hawkish cast (it is chaired by Richard Perle, a leading defense conservative).