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  • adjective Alternative spelling of dovish.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • 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.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • Has any other ambassador ever been described as doveish?

    HAIL KIM JUNG VERY ILL 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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'."

    Washington or Whitehall whispers? 2008

  • 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

  • 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.

    Huckabee says he'd like to be McCain's running mate 2008

  • 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

    Clinton campaigns in SD, hits McCain on Farm Bill 2008

  • "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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