Sentence examples for highly restive from inspiring English sources

After three years of wavering between freelancing and scavenging for full-time employment, I jumped at the opportunity to go to the highly restive post-Gaddafi country.

A day after the self-immolation of a Tibetan monk and reports of large protests in response, the advocacy group Free Tibet posted new video and photographs offering a rare glimpse of monks inside the highly restricted and restive part of western China.

Eight nominating contests, about 20 closely watched debates and several months of heavy state-by-state campaigning have seemingly failed to settle a restive Republican electorate that is highly motivated in its goal of limiting Mr. Obama to a single term but shows lingering signs of nervous indecision about whom it wants to assign the task of taking him on.

Mr. Aquino is walking a fine line between appeasing a restive military that lost 23 personnel in those two attacks — including highly trained, elite fighters — and pursuing his stated goal of achieving a lasting peace in Mindanao.

DAKAR, Senegal, Oct. 8 — A 60-year-old American aid worker arrested last month in the restive Niger Delta region of Nigeria while helping two German filmmakers was in possession of highly sensitive information that could jeopardize national security, a prosecutor at a Nigerian High Court said Monday.

Workers are restive.

Yet Hungary is restive.

The crowd grew restive.

The military was restive.

The young wife grew restive.

The government is restive.