Sentence examples for restive in from inspiring English sources

Both describe themselves as having been difficult, or restive, in romantic relationships.

The human rights job did not particularly suit him, and he was restive in it.

Russia has grown restive, in part because of past American foreign policy actions.

Whenever the south became restive in subsequent decades, the ruling north would either inflict punishment or support renegades there.

See Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 13: "Why the Americans Show Themselves So Restive in the Midst of Their Well-Being".

This may explain why rural governorates have been more restive, in addition to those suburbs of Damascus that comprise the "poverty belt".

Police in Saudi Arabia say they have shot and wounded a man wanted over his involvement in protests in a restive province in the east of country.

Mr. Awlaki is believed to be hiding out in the area of the strike, in the restive Shabwa Province in Yemen's southeast.

The military has deployed tanks in Baniyas, on the Mediterranean coast; Homs in central Syria, near the Lebanese border; and Tafas, in a restive region in the south, they said.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up as he tried to enter the press club in this restive city in northwest Pakistan, killing three other people and wounding 17, the police and hospital officials said.

The descriptive line about the article reads, "Members of a Marine battalion that served in a restive region in Afghanistan have been devastated by the deaths of comrades and frustrated by the VA".