Sentence examples for less restive from inspiring English sources

Yet Anthony Bugett, a security guard who has worked in Duffy Square for several years, said the crowds at the new booths were less restive than before.

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — While the United States has turned its back on some authoritarian rulers in North Africa and the Middle East, its attitude toward strategically placed autocrats in less restive corners of Africa is more ambiguous, and perhaps nowhere more so than in this oil-rich speck of a nation in the Gulf of Guinea.

Or maybe this year the stars were less restive because they were bored.

No matter how bad the violence in the remote north and eastern parts of the island has been since the war began in 1983, Western visitors have not only failed to abandoned the place, rather they have invested quite heavily in its less restive west and south coasts.

While the productivity payoff for keeping doctors happy might seem obvious, the flip side is less so: Restive or disgruntled docs can cost a chain dearly.

Even as Sarkozy was, presumably, still hesitating over his dessert menu, the comedian Jean-Marie Bigard built like a night-club bouncer, but less funny urged the restive mob to sing the word "Sarkozy" to the tune of "Happy Birthday".

Less happily for restive Islamic and Turkic groups either side of it, they each agreed to crack down on organisations that challenge the territorial integrity of the other.In this section Dangerous waters Exposing a dirty secret Who's in charge?

This was a less buoyant and formally more restive work.

Any talk of fraternization with Labour at the moment could encourage restive Conservative MPs to be less loyal to the government, he suggested.

JAKARTA — Three Indonesian soldiers behind the videotaped torture of two men in the country's restive Papua Province were jailed for less than a year by a military court on Monday, angering human rights activists who have denounced the legal proceedings as a farce.

In some Whitehall circles, it is thought that Juan Carlos will have considerably less time than this before the Left become restive, and thus reinforce the apprehensions of the Right that any departure from dictatorship means the serious risk of creating another Portugal.