Sentence examples for a restive week from inspiring English sources

Bit of a restive week at the global box office, with recent blockbusters hogging the top of the list and, below them, a pair of outsiders trying to make the most of the pre-Star Wars lull.

Michael Pravica, Henderson, Nevada A restive U.S. population?

Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed the government will release its tax policy before the federal budget in May as he faces the onset of another parliamentary week with a restive backbench and an opposition out defining the terms of the policy debate.

WASHINGTON — For the second time in two weeks violence has broken out in a restive Arab ally of the United States, confronting the Obama administration with the question of how harshly to condemn a friendly leader who is resisting street protests against his government.

But the events here were being watched with trepidation in neighboring Saudi Arabia, an adjacent Sunni monarchy with a restive Shiite population, and rippling across the region, where an extraordinary few weeks of antigovernment protests have ricocheted from northwest Africa to the Middle East.

CAIRO — Officials in Libya said on Wednesday that government forces had taken control of the western town of Bani Walid, after a deadly assault that lasted almost a week and led to accusations that the country's new government was using indiscriminate force to punish a restive city.

They had to manage a restive Congress.

Ms. Palin faces a restive legislature.

Charlottesville in autumn was a restive and romantic place.

Pakistan, admittedly, had a restive Muslim population to contend with.

There is no indication of a restive board.