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How to use the word Doves in a Sentence?

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We had 120,000 pairs of turtle doves( in the UK) when I was growing up.

Isabella Tree

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The burden of proof is shifting and if inflation has gone nowhere a year from now it will be hard for the doves to say we need more of the same.

Dirk Schumacher

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Before ISIS, everything was green, now everything is finished, nobody gave the olive trees water. And when I see the village like this I feel there is no life here. We used to have 150 doves come to our church, too. But after ISIS, even they have not come back.

Fox News/Hollie McKay -RRB-

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The more extreme characterizations of hawks and doves, where the implication is that participants on the committee want to go in entirely different directions at any given point in time ... that is not the current set of circumstances, the committee is much tighter in its array of opinion, and the differences between points of view are more nuanced and more related to sooner versus a little later on questions of policy.

Idaho Dennis Lockhart

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

By June they will have a broad clutch of data and that could help them, and even some of the doves the Federal Open Market Committee, to come to a solid conclusion (on the desirability of a rate hike) and a conclusion, by the way, that the market agrees with.

Quincy Krosby

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are currently 40 percent for September and 60 for December because there are still doubts in the corner of the doves, i think if you are going to hike rates for the first time in many years you want show a united front. If they went in September there would probably be quite a few doves voting against it.

Philip Marey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The bottom line is a June (rate hike) is still in play and even doves need to tighten at some point when the numbers start looking good, the economy is improving, things are picking up, they need to get the ball rolling on this.

James Liu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Nikita Khrushchev

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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