Type II neurologic damage was defined as: a new deterioration in intellectual function, confusion, agitation, disorientation, memory deficit, or a nonmetabolic seizure without evidence of focal injury.
During Khrushchev's time in office, he had to steer constantly between, on the one hand, popular pressures toward a consumer-oriented society and agitation by intellectuals for greater freedom of expression and, on the other, the growing fear of the Soviet bureaucracy that reform would get out of hand.
His texts for the next decade exhibited a complete indifference to their appeal to the public and were intended as intellectual agitprop (i.e., agitation-propaganda): in Godard's own words, they are "not a show, a struggle".
A series of mediocre ultraconservative governments, a growth in democratic agitation among university intellectuals (whose main concern was the hold of the church over education), and an economic slump caused by bad harvests gave wide support to the military rising against Isabella.
This agitation is non-violent, intellectual.
Her agitation made me agitated.
Agitation can be a sign of boredom or lack of intellectual stimulation.
China's spate of public agitation for political reform continued Friday, as more than 100 Chinese intellectuals and dissidents signed and posted an online letter asking that the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo be released from prison and that government security officers stop harassing his wife, Liu Xia.
Agitation in India continued.
Democracy demands permanent agitation.
