hawkishness

The Israeli leader has a reputation for hawkishness.

With a quick and easy victory under its belt, America's hawkishness quickly explodes into outright war fever.

Besides, hawkishness leads occasionally to war, which, more than anything else, has traditionally enlarged the sphere of central government.

The aim was to influence decisions, but the hawkishness in the US was a problem.

But after 9/11, in a surge of patriotism and hawkishness, many Democrats decided W. might be well cast as president.

Whatever the left's last-minute hawkishness, all their behavior is calculated to demoralize Americans and to suppress anger.

Hence the sudden protestations of deficit hawkishness on Capitol Hill.

There is another, deeper clash between Mr. Gingrich's hawkishness and his other beliefs.

Meekly, the national security adviser began to accept the correction, but then - suddenly - a wave of hawkishness overtook him.

Dole's hawkishness on the Vietnam War and on crime issues kept him in good standing with the right wing.

The nickname referred not to his military hawkishness but rather to his crusading for social welfare and civil rights programs.

Perhaps that is because, as Foreign Policy argues in its most recent issue, humans have an ingrained psychological tilt to hawkishness.

After World War II, she changes her hawkishness to a war-is-hell conviction.

Souder admires John McCain, especially his independence and fiscal hawkishness.

By the time World War II is over, her hawkishness has changed to a war-is-hell conviction.

Jewish doves say the fact that Jewish groups have not come out against the war is evidence of the genuine hawkishness among Jews.

Wolfowitz of Arabia and the other administration hawks are thrilled with U.S. hawkishness.

Some believe that Mr. Sharon - the symbol of intransigent hawkishness - has seen the light of nonviolence.

The appointment was surprising given Niskanen's hawkishness on deficits and concern about military spending-views that conflicted with Reagan policies.

Instead, the House Budget Committee passed its Potemkin version of fiscal hawkishness yesterday, which would apply only to spending and not to tax cuts.

Hawkishness or dovishness on Iraq thus does not correlate with some larger difference in worldview, as, for example, the left and right views on Vietnam once did.

Like Alberich, he was lean, but his brownish hair was only beginning to gray, and he had none of the Weapons-master's hawkishness about him.

Militant anti-Communism and hawkishness on defense matters, for instance, should be less effective as a result of events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

But his views are no more disqualifying than the outspoken hawkishness of Richard Perle, the Reagan Administration's strategist of choice on arms control.