Both share the support of Evangelical voters and both Republicans have taken fiercely conservative stances on abortion and a hawkish position on Iran.

He took a "hawkish" position on the Vietnam War.

Faced with the threat of Halifax's resignation Churchill decided to again retreat from his hawkish position.

"That hawkish position is like a salute to the flag," said Mazhar al-Shereidah, a professor of petroleum economics at Central University in Caracas.

If not, then his hawkish, unilateralist and domineering position may be his downfall, despite the full support he enjoys from the American president.

In these Mr. Nitze took a hawkish position, although he resisted the suggestion that America might choose to make a pre-emptive nuclear first strike.

From the beginning, The Reporter acknowledged its activist agenda, taking a hawkish position on the Cold War.

In general, the address was viewed as a significant turnaround from his previously hawkish positions against the peace process.

They are also worried, with some justification, that the dispatch of monitors could mark a shift in the Arab League's previously hawkish position.

He characterized my hawkish position (which turned out to be right) with a barnyard epithet, adding, "He's getting increasingly arrogant in his old age."