The phrase "as a restive" is not correct in English as it is incomplete and lacks context.
You can use it when describing someone or something that is restless or difficult to control, but it needs to be part of a complete sentence.
Example: "The crowd became increasingly restive as they waited for the concert to start."
Alternatives: "as a restless" or "as an unruly".
America today shows itself as a restive & uncertain nation, immensely self-righteous, convinced of the justice of its cause in Vietnam, perhaps ready to mount a larger war.
Black-empowerment laws, a scarcity of water and electricity as well as a restive workforce make it a difficult place to operate.
(The third child from their privileged group, Charles, dropped out of the series after appearing as a restive malcontent on "21 Up".
They also know that rapid economic growth is the Communist Party's best hope for preserving its power as a restive population yearns for the good life of the West.
(The third child from their privileged group, Charles, dropped out of the series after appearing as a restive malcontent on "21 Up". Charles eventually became a documentary filmmaker, and I can't be the only viewer to fantasize about the film he could make, if he wanted to, about participating in Apted's experiment).
The epicenter of the Islamist war on world order (a more accurate term than the "war on terror") is now on the Afghan-Pakistan border, a fact that should be keeping China's leaders sleepless in Beijing as a restive Uighur population in "East Turkestan," as the locals call it, offers a new front for radical Islamist warfare.
Such coverage may not have stopped the killing, at least not right away, but it did contribute to a gutsy antiwar movement, as well as to a restive "silent majority" that increasingly rejected official rhetoric of falling dominoes and lights at the end of tunnels.
The group's president, William W. Sutton Jr., seemed resentful as he addressed a restive group of 250 members at the business meeting.
"I'm sorry about that," Mrs. Bush said as she led a restive mob of reporters and photographers on a tour of the White House Christmas decorations, which include 800 pounds of fake snow.
The singers were performing to a tough crowd, as restive as any high school assembly.
She enveloped me in her arms, calming me as if I was a restive animal.
