Sentence examples for in a restive from inspiring English sources

THE voters, quite plainly, are in a restive, perhaps even angry mood.

Troops and security forces backed by tanks stormed the locales, all of them in a restive region of central Syria near Homs, Syria's third-largest city, they said.

The album's opener, "Uprising and Revolutions," begins in a restive rubato before it grinds into gear, seven beats to the bar.

There's a famous essay by Virginia Woolf about British literature being stuck in a restive spiral, at once frozen and freed.

HONG KONG — Deadly showdowns between Chinese security forces and Tibetans in a restive region of western China spread to a second town on Tuesday, outside advocacy groups reported.

They say he is eager to instill in a restive population a sense that occupation will eventually give way to a new Iraqi state governed by Iraqis.

Mr. Idlibi also said that several military vehicles raided the neighborhood of Khaldiyeh in Hama, a restive city in central Syria, looking for activists there.

The majority of the deaths were in Homs, a restive city in central Syria that was subjected to a major military assault just days after the peace initiative was announced.

Last week, Indian diplomats at the UN human rights council raised for the first time Pakistan's alleged mistreatment of its own separatists in Balochistan, a restive province in the country's south-west.

Activists also said that one person was shot dead by army troops as he was walking along a street in Homs, a restive city in western Syria that has been an epicenter of some of the largest protests since the uprising against Mr. Assad began in mid-March.

Instead, he moved in with a friend in Logar, a restive province people normally flee, to keep the Taliban's attention away from his family in Kabul, he said.