The most hawkish members of the administration say it would, but few NATO allies support that view.

"He was the most hawkish member of the board for finding the leaker," she added.

Pol-mil types, with their crassly undiplomatic solutions, are tolerated in the building to be trotted out when hawkish members of Congress come to visit.

The party is now perceived as more moderate than ever before, having lost hawkish members to the new rightist National Unity coalition.

A retired Air Force colonel, Harding had been a staffer to one of the more hawkish members of the current Senate.

But then hawkish members of the Senate Armed Services Committee from both parties decided to mount a challenge.

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Ramon emerged as one of the most hawkish members of cabinet.

Stark was "probably the most hawkish" member of the council when he resigned.

"He's always been one of the more, um, hawkish members."

The military, and more hawkish members of the regime still held to the idea that one could bargain only from power.