On Monday bond prices advanced as investors feel the doves will win the day.
The doves agree with Netanyahu that a limited Israeli strike is better than the alternative of a nuclear-armed Iran.
This is striking evidence, the doves can argue, that falling unemployment no longer leads ineluctably to higher pay and rising inflation.
One team was drawn from the Hawks, the other from the Doves.
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The doves at the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve will take heart, and the European Central Bank might be slower to tighten policy than some expect.
This time, however, it is not easy for Mr Sharon to save himself by reaching out to the doves of the Labour Party, which is now in opposition.
There is nothing comparable here to the profoundly damaging philosophical differences in the first Bush administration between the doves, led by Colin Powell, and the hawks, led by Dick Cheney.
Both the hawks and the doves suspect that Saddam Hussein will fairly soon do something foolish enough to provide his would-be disarmers with a cast-iron excuse to enforce their will.
By comparison, the IMF staff have usually been the doves, asking for slower timetables when it comes to cutting the budget deficits, and calling for a greater focus on growth.
The doves counter that it is excess demand, not rapid growth, that causes inflation to accelerate, and argue that America's economy, though certainly booming, is in no danger of outstripping its capacity.
The doves also have an exhibit from the labour market to back their case: the decline in the rate of increase in average earnings in the past six months from over 6% to less than 4% a year.
But when you combine these figures with increasingly downbeat expectations for next week's GDP number, it's been a good few weeks for the doves on the MPC, who think the UK economy will be in the high dependency unit for some time yet.
Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomic Advisors, said the minutes had been "largely superseded" by Mr Bernanke's testimony "but they do reinforce the idea that the doves - who are the ones making policy - will need a great deal of persuading to change their stance".
It is not clear why Poland's hawkish central bankers are the ones making all the headlines at the moment, while the doves are staying relatively quiet, but there is good reason to think the country's next central bank move will indeed be a cut rather than a hike.
This suggests that shops were able to shift such large volumes last month by heavy discounting, something that will not escape the attention of the "doves" on the MPC.
And this is obviously reinforced by the reciprocal trend on the left: because most of the inflation doves are on the left, people who are in the habit of disagreeing with left-wingers are discouraged from adopting their arguments on this issue.
Many market watchers this Bernanke will make remarks meant to reassure the monetary policy doves that the U.S. central bank will maintain its easy money policy for the foreseeable future.
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More than 15 heads of state, including almost all the West African leaders, attended the ceremony, which ended with the release of 100 doves into the air.
The argument is that Mr Obama is more likely to replace departing "doves" on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors with other doves - ie, people who are more likely to support the current policy of pumping money into the economy for as it takes to bring down US unemployment.
The arguments of inflation doves are more subtle and lack the same kind intuitive appeal.
As analysts survey the inflation "hawks" and "doves" on the Fed board, Greenspan, who embraces theories of a technology-driven New Economy, is seen as having a more lenient interest-rate bent than Clinton appointee Laurence Meyer.
During a ceremony at Hyde police station, the mothers of the officers released doves.
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The slo-mo frames, the two-handed shooting and even the perennially startled doves are all there.
Just a day later, at a series of press conferences in the parliament building, under mosaics of doves and rainbows, the momentum was once again restored.
In the meantime, several of Labour's most influential doves have vigorously opposed the unity government from the outset.
The evening before the festivity of Saint Blaise in Dubrovnik, Croatia, as all the church bells in the city ring and white doves are released as symbols of peace, worshippers gather for a ritual healing of the throat to preserve them against illness.
Some doves in the West, meanwhile, say that a fierce reaction is unlikely to have any impact.
The anti-war doves, as will be seen, form a growing and disputatious camp.
He pointed out that there was still a majority of five doves to the Polish central bank's three hawks, including Filar, Marian Noga and Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner.
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