Sentence examples for as restive from inspiring English sources

And this hybrid, I suspect, made them as restive as, alas, it did me.

The singers were performing to a tough crowd, as restive as any high school assembly.

Among Labour MPs, the mood is as restive and perplexed as ever.

The action came as restive Senate Democrats demanded more information about the work of the secretive joint committee.

Republican leaders scheduled two votes on Libya on Friday as restive lawmakers seek a chance to rebuke President Obama over the operation.

Its facade of calm, however, began to show cracks recently as restive Kurds in northern Syria clashed with the police, leaving at least eight people dead.

Mr. Herheim has relocated his staging to the mid-19th-century Opéra itself, casting the Sicilians as the restive performers and the French as their audience.

The documentary makes clear that Bowles's music varied so much because, at heart, it was as rootless and restive as he was.

The country's east and south, the traditional Taliban strongholds, predictably saw the heaviest fighting, but a swath of the north became increasingly restive as well.

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.

CA will shortly begin renegotiating its memorandum of understanding with Australia's top cricketers, and wishes to be seen as singing from the same song sheet as its restive union, the Australian Cricketers Associationn.