Sentence examples for restive for from inspiring English sources

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Youthful Bagara and Tayy tribesmen, who have cousins in Iraq, are restive for a different reason.

When she grew restive for a long weekend in Paris, Daisy asked if the cow would mind not being milked during her absence.

And racing teams restive for a bigger chunk of the sport's revenues, as well as track owners struggling to break even on gate receipts alone, are also seeking to loosen his grip.

Indeed, Gaddafi's only option may well be to cast aside an eastern region that has been restive for many years, in order to focus on solidifying control of Tripoli, and the territory he has retaken in recent days.

Ms Saunders said Tibetans in Ganzi prefecture were "strong in their religious beliefs" and the area had "been very restive for some time".

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Reporters from all over the world grew restive, desperate for anything to write about.

But on the eve of the March 4 presidential elections a restive yearning for change is in the air.

It sees the kind of steps required to potentially expand that 51 percent to, say, 53 percent as simply too risky – in a polarized country and with a restive base – for the Republican candidate to undertake.

(Chinen) AMANDA MONACO 4 (Thursday) The guitarist Amanda Monaco has a recent album, "Intention" (Innova), that features her playfully restive compositions for this quartet, with Jason Gillenwater on reeds, Sean Conly on bass and Jeff Davis on drums.

A government clampdown, which included several days of strict curfew that ended Sunday and the deployment of the Indian Army on the outskirts of this restive city for the first time in more than a decade, have brought a semblance of calm.

Both sides may be still hoping that the gradual but steady narrowing of bond spreads in recent weeks (see the charts in my earlier post here) will obviate the need to ask the restive Bundestag for more money.Though ostensibly "independent", the ECB president, Mario Draghi, participates in European summits and proved instrumental on setting out a clearer timetable.

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