Sentence examples for restive countries from inspiring English sources

But speaking to other restive countries, including Bahrain, Mr. Obama directed his advice to governments, not protesters, illustrating just how tricky diplomacy in the region has become.

For decades, Bahrain's relative openness and entrenched inequality have made it one of the Arab world's most restive countries, as a Shiite majority numbering as much as 70 percent of the population seeks more rights from a Sunni monarchy that conquered the island in the 18th century.

Prime Minister George A. Papandreou ran out of political capital trying to impose austerity on a restive country.

American authorities turned over formal control of Iraq to the restive country's new leaders in a surprise ceremony called two days ahead of schedule.

Fifteen months after Saddam Hussein was swept from power, American authorities turned over formal sovereignty of this restive country to Iraq's new leaders on Monday in a surprise ceremony called two days ahead of schedule.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — When protests erupted in March in the forlorn Syrian border town of Dara'a, demonstrators burned the president's portraits, then set ablaze an unlikely target: the local office of the country's largest mobile phone company, Syriatel, whose owner sits at the nexus of anger and power in a restive country.

This was the candidate who promised to "mend the social fracture", get the French back to work, combat racial inequality in the banlieues, cut taxes, and put France back on track towards a future of shared prosperity.On entering the Elysée Palace, Mr Chirac inherited a restive country, with high unemployment, mounting debt, a disoriented electorate and a sense of political stagnation.

They differ over how to interpret the government's decision there, asking whether the departure points to a government attempt to avoid casualties and another potentially explosive clash in a restive country, or to an exhausted repressive apparatus stretched too thin.

Watching everyone munch through the food that's been handed out, it feels more like a picnic with a particularly dedicated group of paintballers than an armed protest in a politically restive country.

The entrance of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula into Aden, once one of the world's busiest ports and the most secular and secure parts of an otherwise restive country, would be one of its biggest gains yet.

Emmanuel Macron now has to deal with an increasingly restive country of 66 million people, and he must know that the brutal neoliberal policies he's about to implement will only make them suffer more and bring them closer to breaking point.