doveish

"She might be a little more doveish than Greenspan but less outspoken than Mr. Blinder.

Already, Shimon Peres, Israel's usually doveish president, has warned that the possibility of the Jewish state launching a pre-emptive attack is getting "closer and closer".

On 19 March 2008, Mersch admonished banks for inappropriate risk management, but perhaps more unusually struck a doveish tone with regard to the future path of the European economy.

Hank Azaria will play the hawkish professor originally played by Walter Matthau and Harvey Keitel will play Blackie, the doveish general who serves as the films conscience.

Hetal Mehta, of Daiwa Securities, said weak wage growth would reassure King's doveish allies on the MPC: "Wage growth remains well below levels that the Bank would consider a threat to inflation.

As Defence Minister at the height of the Intifada in 1988, Rabin had again taken a hard line, and Labour was widely thought to have gained popularity after he defeated the more doveish Shimon Peres (his successor in 1977) to win back the party chairmanship in February 1992 [see p. 38787].