"He will err on the side of hawkishness, not dovishness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Testing The New Guy] Reference

Hawkishness is only a problem if it is not balanced and kept in check by dovishness and realism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Votes To Let Lieberman Stay As Homeland Security Chair] Reference

Maybe, just maybe, the Democratic National Chairman can establish that his dovishness is limited to Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bull Moose] Reference

The position balances Obama's dovishness on Iraq, making him more credible to the national security establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Hayden: Why Barack Should De-Escalate on Pakistan] Reference

Many suspect his dovishness -- less apparent to those outside the administration -- was the reason he lost the president's faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Onetime 'Whiz Kid' Brought Low by Vietnam] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: We're all nationalist liberals now.] Reference

Republicans, on the other hand, are hoping that the Democrats lurch too far in their dovishness and will, once again, discredit themselves on national security for a generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » National Review Editor: Iraq May Be Turning Into Bush’s Vietnam] Reference

The problem is not principally dovishness but rather --- as Peter notes --- that Democrats are by and large simply not sufficiently interested in national security policy, as such.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

For all its newly found dovishness, an editorial cartoon in the liberal Ha'aretz recently depicted the current Intifada as the infestation of a human body by a pack of vicious vermin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deadlocked City] Reference

The essential debate in Israel is over the best way to navigate the treacherous waters of Middle East politics, not Likud Greater Israel hawkishness vs. Meretz/Labor dovishness, as it was for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Peter Beinart–Trite] Reference

Only in some ways, what they did was worse: Terrified by the so-called "taint of dovishness," they allowed themselves to play along with a con game transparent enough for a ten-year-old to see through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why The Media Lavishes Coverage On Pollack And O'Hanlon] Reference

He's a Strangelovian, self-parodying right-winger who speaks with ominous intensity about "taking the high ground," fingers Iran as the present enemy, and dismisses Janine's dovishness with elaborate scorn: "Unfortunately civilizations do not sustain themselves through nonviolent responses.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['Lions for Lambs'] Reference

Instead, they tried to compensate for their alleged dovishness on Iraq (remember, the withdrawal dates!) by acting tougher than Norman Podhoretz on Iran and jumping on the bandwagon of AIPAC-darling Joe ‘Craving for another Gulf of Tonkin Incident’ Lieberman in voting for an amendment that would have come close to an overt declaration of war, if it were not alleviated at the eleventh hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [No wind of change but a calm of feebleness] Reference

"I think people are digesting the dovishness of the statement and penalizing the Fed,".    From Wordnik.com.  [TREASURIES-Bonds extend losses on dovish Fed statement | Reuters] Reference

US FOMC Minutes - focus on whether dovishness is as evident in the minutes as it was in the statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

But you're simply not going to find a whole lot of guarantees of dovishness in speeches or policy papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias] Reference

"The dovishness of the statement suggests that rates are on hold for a while," said Citigroup economist Jean-Francois Mercier.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

But where bearish describes a pessimistic outlook for a market or security, dovishness describes an optimistic (low) inflationary outlook.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

However, this dovishness was inspired by a feeling that a collapse in the financial sector would create an enormous increase in the demand for money.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference

The army has little reason to back Sharif, even if Zardari is widely unpopular and disliked by hawkish elements who distrust his pro-West stance and dovishness towards India.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

"Any knee-jerk dollar strength on a punchy retail sales release would likely fade in the face of this ongoing dovishness" from Benanke, said Daragh Maher, a foreign exchange analyst at French bank Credit Agricole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raw Story] Reference

But lots of us have been content to take the safe position of rallying to the more-popular cause of the Afghanistan war as a way of insulating ourselves to charges of excessive dovishness for opposing the Iraq war.    From Wordnik.com.  [QandO] Reference

Instead, McCain needs to alarm voters about Obama's dovishness -- reminding them of his opponent's misjudgment of the surge, for example -- and tie around his neck all the stupidities of the woolly-minded Democratic party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Booman Tribune] Reference

It would be comparable to me agreeing with the Democratic party on all of its platform positions except for military interventionism in the Middle East -- specifically my wanting the US to stay the course in Iraq, say -- and then voting against Joe Lieberman after he was nominated for the Presidency by the DNC as my way of sticking it to the Democratic Party for its dovishness on Iraq!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Audacious Epigone] Reference

(The libertarian/isolationist Murray Rothbard supported Stevenson, because of the latter’s dovishness.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Anti-War GOP] Reference

They’re always looking for some issue to be “tough” on to compensate for their dovishness in other departments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The McCain League] Reference

A degree of dovishness held cache at the time because peace couldn’t be dismissed as an abstract luxury for wussies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Anti-War GOP] Reference

McGovernism led to reelection for Nixon, and a generation of wariness about war on the part of Dems — wariness that led to Dem’s being self-conscious about their reflexive dovishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Sweet Victory] Reference

Oppose it out of general dovishness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is Not The Iraq Debate | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

Meretz/Labor dovishness, as it was for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Peter Beinart–Trite] Reference

The dovishness of Samar Assad and my friend P.J.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment] Reference

The Democratic shift from hawkishness on Iran in 2002-04 to dovishness on Iran in 2005-present (see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Crank] Reference