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But evidently his hawkish instincts, for the moment, have got the better of him.

Her colleague Andrew Sentance, one of the more hawkish members of the MPC, said he was encouraged by recent economic indicators.

The hawkish Mr Kaczynski did not attend that ceremony, instead insisting on his own visit three days later.

To hear him tell it, his hawkish views disqualified him from getting the top job at the European Central Bank later this year.

The Bank of England's monetary policy committee is split on whether to raise interest rates, but it has got more hawkish.

Mr Madoff was no hawkish salesman. He often turned down the country club members competing to throw money at him.

This fuelled speculation that the bank will take a more hawkish stance ahead of the European Central Bank's meeting later this week.

Traders took solace in the hawkish demeanor of the ECB seemingly forgetting how they were let down by the bank at the last meeting.

But some other conservatives, more deficit-hawkish and less tax-focused, see a VAT as one of the less unpalatable of a menu of bad options.

The next day, his counterparts at the Richmond, Philadelphia and Dallas banks made similarly hawkish remarks.

None of these hawkish pundits openly advocated violence, and all have (for the most part) distanced themselves from Breivik's act.

"Some of the foreign central banks, led by the ECB, have been more hawkish than they needed to be, " King said.

A hawkish Chinese strategist at the conference was unapologetic, growling that America was "taking the Chinese as the enemy" .

Gruff, traditional and hawkish on military matters, he was the perfect fit for his district, a hardscrabble slice of western Pennsylvania.

Americans are more hawkish than they were a month ago, when it was 41% in favour of a surge and 50% against.

ECB leaders are sounding more hawkish, and an interest rate increase is certainly looking more likely at the next meeting.

Another possibility would be to fire some of the more-hawkish ministers, notably the abrasive Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

But other dynamics might also be at work. If the LDP becomes too hawkish, says Mr Kato, then New Komeito could desert it for the DPJ.

Any hawkish tone to the discussions at the Bank could see sterling experience a euro-like rally.

The ECB meeting on Thursday will also garner plenty of attention especially as the ECB is likely to shift its tone from hawkish to neutral.

Hawkish Indian commentators are meanwhile up in arms.

On October 10th a ministerial committee, responding to pressure from hawkish Israelis, approved a bill mandating such a vote.

That has led to the charge by hawkish American Republicans, as well as many Israelis, that Mr Obama is bent on betraying Israel.

"Not talking is an option, " says Arun Jaitley, a hawkish leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.

On both occasions a weaker dollar, rising oil prices and a "decoupled" world economy made America's central bank more hawkish .

This should go some way to placate hawkish ECB members who disagree with the Bank's bond-buying programme.

but a sharp fall of the euro is unlikely given the trade strength of Germany and the hawkish policies of the European Central Bank.

This will add to the war chest of the hawkish faction at the ECB, who are reluctant to cut rates so soon after raising them.

Successive governments have mumbled about dealing with the Kurdish problem, only to be stopped by Turkey's hawkish generals.

In his first press conference as ECB president, Mr Draghi proved that only the paranoid can put his hawkish credentials in doubt.

Only a few hawkish South Koreans think a military response is desirable.

Analysts fear the war of words could strengthen hawkish anti-western elements in the Russian government.

Mr McCain's policies on Iran, Russia and China are more hawkish even than those of the Bush administration.

His views, albeit hawkish, are respected by the current Congress party-led government and carry weight with the diplomatic community.

The absence of more hawkish language was greeted with relief by investors, who had been troubled by recent talk from some Fed officials.

The sitting president, Lee Myung-bak, has defined his term in office with a hawkish stance towards the North.

Hawkish sites that have taken up feminism include Little Green Footballs, Jihad Watch and Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine.

A more hawkish camp, including Britain, Sweden, Poland and the Baltic states, want a fundamental rethink of relations with Russia.

Hawkish comments from Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president, have helped improve sentiment towards the single currency too.

If the comment is removed the statement will be taken in somewhat of a hawkish context, which would boost the USD.

As long as recent oil price falls aren't reversed, the ECB could well start to take a slightly less hawkish view on monetary policy.

But though China and South Korea also abhor North Korea's provocations, they are alarmed almost as much by Japan's hawkish response.

Democrats, too, have tried to bar hawkish regional reserve-bank presidents from voting on monetary policy.

A hawkish defense and diplomacy specialist, Maehara has supported Kan's fiscal reconstruction policies of raising the consumption tax.

"Russia is encircled by American military bases, airports and naval units, " cried Vyacheslav Nikonov, a hawkish commentator.

And the more hawkish American neo-conservatives can be about Russia, the more they sound like their Russian counterparts.

With the labour market so strong, and inflation still uncomfortably high, the central bankers were sensible to sound hawkish this week.

China foreign minister sounded more hawkish stating that the US bill is protectionist and breaches WTO governance.

Hawkish Indians consider these Chinese investments as a "string of pearls" to throttle India.

Agitation for higher wages in Germany and France may intensify inflationary pressure in the Eurozone, reinforcing the ECB's hawkish stance.

All three are prepared to advocate more hawkish policies for their own nation.

Perhaps a similar humiliation for the North Korean team in Pyongyang would suit South Korea's hawkish strategy after all.

Pakistan's internal disarray makes the arguments against peace by its hawkish military leaders nearly irrelevant.

And on foreign policy, Mr Cameron would get an easier ride at a trendy London dinner party than hawkish Mr Osborne.

Hawkish speeches about Iraq from American leaders have prompted expressions of concern from both friends and fors abroad.

In New Zealand, RBNZ Governor Bollard speech today had a relatively hawkish tone.

Mr Orban has picked unnecessary fights, publicly demanding the sacking of the well-regarded and hawkish central-bank chief, Andras Simor.

Mr Ahmadinejad's populism still wins admirers and gets the backing of the hawkish security apparatus and the courts.

If the Fed surprises the market and turns more hawkish it will pose a risk to the sizable amount of dollar shorts in the market.

The Obama administration is hoping that the hawkish Israeli leader will also publicly endorse Palestinian statehood for the first time.

I am more fiscally hawkish than Mr Balls, as I said at that time. But I am not as hawkish as Mr King.

It also codified a polemical line that has, unexpectedly, become a war horse of hawkish bloggers.

Meanwhile, more hawkish members of OPEC, such as Venezuela, are calling for a cut in output to stop oil prices falling further.

Mr Netanyahu, of course, is under pressure from coalition partners even more hawkish than himself.

These hawkish signals may have compounded the slide in economic activity already under way.

Slovakia remains in the hawkish camp, along with Finland, Germany and the Netherlands. It wants more austerity and reform from Greece.

Then it made the opposite mistake, being too trusting and generous when Russia was becoming more hawkish and looting was endemic.

Young Chuchi represented Pantora in the Galactic Senate, and was far more idealistic than her hawkish local chairman, Chi Cho.

The euro has been underpinned by robust growth in the eurozone and hawkish rhetoric from the European Central Bank over interest rates.

Two months ago financial markets were sure that the Fed, for all its hawkish talk, would soon cut rates.

Even the European Central Bank, most hawkish of the big central banks, has lowered its rate to 1 per cent.

But Mr Netanyahu may yet need more support to rein in his most hawkish partners.

Poland's foreign minister, the once-hawkish Radek Sikorski, is being similarly canny.

And Stan Collender shoots down Martin Feldstein's hawkish stimulus proposal.

Even the Fed's most hawkish governors are now hinting at more cuts in interest rates.

The more hawkish countries want oil prices to remain as high as possible to fund their lavish budgets.

Of late, Fedspeak has come largely from hawkish regional governors.

Dick Cheney, the hawkish vice-president, has seen his influence wane.

For an institution so famously hawkish on inflation, that is an indication of how murky the outlook has become.

He plays a hawkish Democrat in the newly released movie "Charlie Wilson's War. "

India's central bank, one of Asia's most hawkish, raised interest rates for the 13th time in 18 months last week.

He thinks the DPJ's leaders are fiscally more hawkish than the manifesto suggested.

Kansas also has a "hawkish" nickname: the Jayhawk State.

The second reason is the relative hawkish ECB and President Trichet's very clear statement last week that a rate hike will be quickly seen.

Even the hawkish Ariel Sharon budged.

But there are clearly more hawkish voices, which are becoming ever louder in this debate.

But in the past week, several Fed governors have talked up more hawkish options.

Ignore the hawkish rhetoric.

That's the reason why China has a hawkish eye on the region.

The Fed chief has to sound hawkish to show that he has not lost sight of inflation.

That's the reason why China has a hawkish eye on the region.

The Fed chief has to sound hawkish to show that he has not lost sight of inflation.

Even the most hawkish know the jailed will be out in time.

She is by far the most hawkish of the current Democratic candidates.

China's inflation rate reached a 10-year high of 5. 6 per cent in July, prompting hawkish noises from the central bank.

Yet even hawkish France sent back only 25, 000 in 2007.

Yields have come off on the back of: 1, a reduction in interest rate expectations after the ECB toned down its hawkish rhetoric ;

"He is seen . . . as the epitome of the hawkish, right-of-center intellectual" (Paul Kennedy)

A hawkish point of view