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Doves in sentence

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It will not die any time soon: in the Israeli aviary both doves and hawks are capable phoenixes.
This is likely to dishearten Israeli doves – and embolden hawks in their insistence that no progress toward peace is possible without the Palestinians’ unequivocal acceptance of Israel as the Jewish national homeland.
In any negotiation, the other parties will offer concessions to strengthen the doves, knowing full well that a failure to do so will enrage the hawks, who will then move forward with their doomsday plans.
Obama’s Rocky Path to Success in SyriaNEW YORK – In my experience, if you are attacked for your diplomacy from both left and right, by doves and hawks, and by internationalists and isolationists, you probably have it just right.
The doves are furious about the pre-announcement, and some hawks – perhaps nostalgic for the more collegial style of Wim Duisenberg – regard Trichet’s move as “showing off” and “taking control.”
Draghi and the doves on the ECB Governing Council – namely, the presidents of southern European countries’ central banks – seem to think that they can get a car moving simply by giving it more gas, even if its clutch is broken.
Both parties include conservatives and liberals, defense hawks and doves.
The most obvious example of this gambit is in the United States, where President Donald Trump’s trade war and Twitter threats are fueling economic uncertainty and putting wind in the sails of doves on the Federal Open Market Committee.
ECB hawks and doves’ endless skirmishes over QE are not only tiresome; they have also undermined European solidarity at a time of Russian revanchism, US unpredictability, Chinese assertiveness, and all of the disruptions implied by Brexit.
The naive ones, a tear on their cheeks, were kissing doves through the bars of a Gothic cage, or, smiling, their heads on one side, were plucking the leaves of a marguerite with their taper fingers, that curved at the tips like peaked shoes.
Other sign of life there was none, save a few doves cooing sleepily in the darkness under the arch.
The interview had begun in the dead dawn-silence of the court-yard a silence so intense that he could hear the doves cooing on a tower a hundred and fifty feet above his head.
Not to mention the fact that the sight of the happy doves in their well-ordered nest, so content with themselves and everybody else, had a cheering effect on him, he now wanted, dissatisfied with life as he was, to get at the secret which gave Sviyazhsky such clearness, definiteness, and cheerfulness.
Until evening the moan of doves would be heard . . .
Amy and Louisa, return to your nests like a pair of doves, as you are.
I suppose that thou wilt bear sooner or later white doves to her altar."
In the midst of the people, on the stone flags, gathered flocks of doves, eager for the grain given them, and like movable many-colored and dark spots, now rising for a moment with a loud sound of wings, now dropping down again to places left vacant by people.
When thou hast found Lygia, let me know, so that I may offer for you both a pair of swans and a pair of doves in the round temple of Venus here.
Above the boats here and there flew doves, and other birds from India and Africa, fastened with silver and blue threads or strings.
As the heat increased, crowds of idlers betook themselves to the porticos of the temples, from under which flew from moment to moment, with great rustle of wings, flocks of doves, whose white feathers glistened in the sunlight and in the blue of the sky.
Frequently it seemed to him that if he left Rome, the faithful would follow; that he would lead them then far away to the shady groves of Galilee, to the quiet surface of the Lake of Tiberias, to shepherds as peaceful as doves, or as sheep, who feed there among thyme and pepperwort.
"Meanwhile let Sicily replace for you the gardens of Hesperides; may the goddesses of the fields, woods, and fountains scatter flowers on your path, and may white doves build their nests on every acanthus of the columns of your house."
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