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As the war slowly dismantles Saddam Hussein's elaborate bureaucracy of terror, the citizens of Iraq's second-largest city are beginning to glimpse the methods that gave him such effective control over a largely restive, resentful population in southern Iraq.
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Poitou and Saintonge remained restive largely because of the stubborn machinations of Isabella of Angoulême (King John's widow); it was only in 1243, after a revolt planned to coincide with an uprising in Languedoc, that the adjudication of 1202 was fulfilled in Aquitaine.
Largely to mollify a restive Jewish mob outside his window, Pilate agrees to a severe lashing and scourging of Jesus, but the crowd and the high priest demand more.
In the south, the country's Shiite majority, while restive and suspicious, has largely chosen to go along for now.
Kurdish voters in the country's restive south-east provinces largely complied with orders from the largest pro-Kurdish party, Peace and Democracy (BDP), to boycott the referendum on the ground that it failed to address their demands for greater political and cultural autonomy.
Small groups of restive young people turned a largely peaceful protest into a riot, setting fire to at least one building and a police van and clashing with police officers, who responded with water cannons and tear gas.
But the Ethiopians' original aims, to shore up Meles Zenawi, their ruthless prime minister, and rout Ethiopia's ethnic-Somali separatists in the country's restive Ogaden region in the east, have largely been realised.Ethiopia, in any case, reckons that the jihadist fighters' influence in Somalia is weaker than many observers think.
It follows opposition street protests which began in 2011-12, largely centred on Moscow and led by the country's restive middle classes.
Similar political arrangements involving godfathers, politicians and gangs were detailed in the report in three other states, including regions in the largely Muslim north, the oil-rich Niger Delta and the restive southwest, home to the Yoruba people.
The marines, for example, have largely put on hold a detailed public works campaign in the restive Falluja area, 35 miles west of Baghdad, to prepare for a potentially violent assault on insurgents in the city.
The strategy has largely worked, so far satisfying the most unmanageable of Mr. Boehner's restive conservative members.
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