Sentence examples for restive at from inspiring English sources

THE sleek crowd grew restive at the opening late last month at Mary Boone's Fifth Avenue gallery, but Ms. Boone was nowhere in sight.

Vehicles entering suburbs known to be restive at night were being checked by up to six times at a single roadblock by police officers, the businessman said.

A shockingly rude audience, used to wandering in and out of artists' film and video installations, grew restive at the pace and presentation of this work.

If China loses the political backing of America's big-business lobby, which has lately been growing restive at its treatment in China, then the tone in Washington will shift further.

Its approval of the project can be taken for granted (though polling shows approval of the government itself is another issue, and that Aussies are turning restive at its fanaticism).

Pakistan's Army is growing restive at being forced to serve as a mercenary force to support the US war in Afghanistan.

But the restive crowd at the company's annual meeting today offered no congratulations for candor.

The young king returned in triumph to deal forcefully with restive populations at Paris and Rouen and in Languedoc.

Since then, the government has been trying to quell Argentina's restive farmers at the negotiating table.

(Chinen) Chris Speed Trio (Thursday) The tenor saxophonist Chris Speed can often be found in sonically restive settings, at least a couple of steps to the left of any established idiom.

And yet, in the view of many restive traditionalists at the paper, that line has been crossed in the very news pages she is in charge of.