Sentence examples for the hawkish from inspiring English sources
adjective
Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
- The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
The hawkish rhetoric seems to be working a treat.
In this debate, Augie represents the hawkish "For" tendency.
Netanyahu junior belongs to the hawkish wing of the Likud.
But he was astonished at the hawkish tone the editorial page took during the Gulf War.
Will it side with the hawkish Iranians in pushing for a quota cut?
But, Mr. Matthews said, "Trichet didn't really ratchet up the hawkish rhetoric".
Clashes are likely, too, over defence (even though the hawkish defence minister lost his seat).
Even the hawkish LDP's latest constitutional draft reasserts Japan's renunciation of war as a sovereign right.
Having to make do with the hawkish Bennett will push him even farther right.
"Please restrain Conrad," he wrote of the hawkish Austrian military chief in 1908.
Today, the college student who backed the Vietnam War is, at 61, the hawkish presidential candidate.
