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- adjective Alternative spelling of
dovish .
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Examples
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The Bank has kept its official rate of interest at 5 per cent since April, although the more recent trend in discussions within the MPC and in the Bank's official reports has been taken to be more "doveish" - favourable to rate cuts.
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The Bank has kept its official rate of interest at 5 per cent since April, although the more recent trend in discussions within the MPC and in the Bank's official reports has been taken to be more "doveish" - favourable to rate cuts.
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Has any other ambassador ever been described as doveish?
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I was reading yesterday that she is "doveish", which either gives a new meaning to the word, or means "hawkish" is almost unimaginable.
Angela Merkel Barbie Jes 2009
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I also think that no, I mean hope that her rhetoric is for internal consumption, and that she may truly be 'doveish', and will click nicely with Obama.
Angela Merkel Barbie Jes 2009
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James Macintyre’s piece is well worth reading but I must admit I’m slightly puzzled by this piece of analysis: "... on defining international issues such as the invasion of Iraq (unlike Clinton and certainly unlike Cameron), Obama's position was closer to that of mainstream Europe - which, as led by President Jacques Chirac of France, tended to be more 'doveish' than 'hawkish'."
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Gantz is thought to be relatively doveish on a military air strike against Iran, and his remarks were well within the boundaries of public statements by Israel's political and military elite.
Israel military chief: Iran bomb plans must be disrupted 2012
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Right now I might vote for Obama for a more doveish foreign policy and more liberal positions on cultural issues, or McCain for his more pro-free market bent.
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Hillary Clinton should stay on the ballot and give Americans a TRUE choice: not too left and not too right not too old and not too young not too hawkish and not too doveish
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"While Bush favoured aggressive neoconservative ideologues, Obama has selected people whose doveish credentials seem impeccable" The Guardian, Jan 11, 2009
Indra Adnan: It's not American Leadership the World Wants, it's American Companionship 2009
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