How to Use hawkish in a Sentence

hawkish

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• Experts said more hawkish views often come to the forefront at times of regional strife.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
• If anything, this year’s changing of the guard at the FOMC may lead to an even more hawkish stance.
  — Oliver Rust, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
• But on the war and confrontation with the West, the Communists are also on the hawkish side.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2024
• So, what does the Fed’s hawkish signal mean for investors?
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
• Biden could match his recent hawkish rhetoric with deeds.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
• Oil prices are being weighed by the U.S. Fed’s hawkish tone that has stoked fears about holding rates higher for longer.
  — WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
• The minutes, released on Wednesday, struck a hawkish tone.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
• Resilient labor markets could keep the Fed hawkish for longer.
  — WSJ, 2 Aug. 2023
• The candidates could not — or, rather, did not, agree with the premise — though Reagan, unsurprisingly, was the more hawkish of the two.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• That continued hawkish stance by the Fed is also putting pressure on stock prices.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2022
• For that meeting only, markets may be more hawkish than the Fed itself.
  — Simon Moore, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• This can, once again, force the Fed into a more hawkish policy, increasing the value of the dollar.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 29 July 2024
• Tomorrow, Powell will give a speech that will be closely watched for signs he's turned hawkish in the face of a booming jobs market.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• The rise comes even as debt ceiling talks show little progress and as markets see the Fed pausing and cutting rates soon while its peers remain hawkish.
  — wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• Investors had long feared that possibility, which meant that some of the Fed's more hawkish moves led to stock market sell-offs.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Prigozhin’s mutiny has pushed the situation to an extreme and may pave the way for the emergence of a more radicalized, hawkish, and ruthless state.
  — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Federal Reserve is not likely to change its hawkish stance anytime soon.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2023
• Compared to other contenders for the top job, he’s considered more hawkish.
  — Takashi Hirokawa, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• The rumbling banking crisis underscores the hazards to the economy of a hawkish Fed.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 5 May 2023
• Over 80 percent of those surveyed said Powell’s Jackson Hole speech will reinforce the message of a hawkish hold.
  — Liz Capo McCormick, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2023
• The remarks by Patrushev and Bortnikov offer an insight into hawkish thinking at the top of the Kremlin elite.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The Fed slowed the pace of rate hikes last month, but Powell indicated in testimony to Congress Tuesday that the central bank may need to turn hawkish again.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• Equally concerning for the hawkish Journal is the degree to which DeSantis has gone wobbly on Ukraine.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
• Despite that, the Fed is still sounding extremely hawkish notes in its projections of future rates.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• The fifth question is whether a hard landing would weaken central banks’ hawkish resolve on inflation.
  — Nouriel Roubini, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• Despite this hawkish tone, many analysts expect no more hikes.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• Macron’s hawkish pro-Ukraine message arrives at a time when Kyiv’s difficulties are piling up.
  — Célia Belin, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2024
• Right now, fighting the Fed creates the risk that the Fed itself has to fight back, by becoming more hawkish, at least in rhetoric, to avoid financial conditions loosening too much.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
• Wall Street started the week with gains early Monday after a Friday rally, but closed mixed after hawkish Fed comments.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 10 Jan. 2023
• The risk of a Trump presidency for emerging market stocks is tied to his hawkish trade policies, especially toward China.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024