Sentence examples for he was restive from inspiring English sources

The human rights job did not particularly suit him, and he was restive in it.

However, by 1949 he was restive in academia and was attracted to the challenge of becoming the first chief epidemiologist of the newly established Communicable Disease Center (now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]) in Atlanta, Georgia, a position he held for over 20 years.

The military was restive.

The working class was restive.

The nation's fragile new democracy was barely two years old, and the hard-line military was restive.

Workers are restive.

Yet Hungary is restive.

The government is restive.

Even the Liberals are restive.

Their peoples, naturally, are restive.

Mrs Merkel's allies are restive.