Sentence examples for restive minority from inspiring English sources

The recent video also faulted Iran for allowing Jews to maintain and worship in synagogues, even as, according to the video, it persecuted and killed its restive minority Sunnis.

And although the president traveled to the country's Kurdish region to try to rein in further talk of autonomy, analysts said that the fact he went at all was the latest sign that the government was continuing its outreach to its most restive minority despite pushback from the nation's powerful nationalists.

Her characterization is not uncommon among Han Chinese, many of whom distrust the restive minority.

The military junta that ruled for a half-century elevated Bamar, or Burman, ethnic identity above tens of smaller groups, and fought often brutal wars in restive minority areas.

Some countries in eastern Europe with restive minorities worried about the consequences of a Scottish "yes".

Turkey and other neighbors fear that an Iraq split up into ethnic or religious enclaves could stir up their own restive minorities.

Turmoil in Tibet sets a dangerous example to other restive minorities in the Chinese empire, such as those in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.Above all, harsh attempts to stamp out Tibetan nationalism have patently failed.

As such, the dominant Han Chinese government needs to control – and contain – its more restive minorities.

Turkey, with its restive Kurdish minority, is worried about cross-border attacks by Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas.

There is also a restive Kurdish minority centered in the north.

For a large, restive unionist minority, the same would not apply.