As China's first phase of development and modernisation comes to a close, the new leadership might wonder how its restive citizens would react to an economic setback – one that collapsed the bargain of the last 20 years in which political stasis was accepted in return for economic advance.
It is not clear how responsible the restive Mahdi militia commanders are for stalling progress in the effort to reduce violence.
For a while, it seemed unclear how large and restive the crowd would become, or how resolutely the marchers would seek to defy the court order and head to the disputed site.
If nothing else, the fact that just over half of South Carolina voters said in exit polls that they made up their minds at the last minute shows just how fluid and restive the Republican electorate remains — a troubling sign for Mr. Romney that Mr. Gingrich is now poised to capitalize upon.
After discussions on Saturday and two lengthy meetings at the company headquarters in Houston, the board of Dynegy decided it could not figure out how to placate its restive investors, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Beware of cult flicks, though, whose reputation sits uneasily on little more than a look; how often did the restive kids who papered their walls with stills of "Easy Rider," or of Brando in "The Wild One," sit through the actual movie?
Mr. Xhaferi still commands enormous moral authority among the restive Albanian population, but how long he can hold the more militant Albanians in check is not clear.
And despite the recent détente with the activist investor Carl C. Icahn, whose representatives now sit on Motorola's board, analysts and restive shareholders are wondering how soon — if at all — Greg Brown, the chief executive, can revive Motorola's fortunes.
The question they are asking now is how the Free Democrats, Mrs. Merkel's restive partners in the national Parliament, will respond to the debacle they suffered in Berlin after a campaign marked by increasingly discordant attacks on the chancellor from their ranks as they slip in the polls.
