Sentence examples for restive people from inspiring English sources

"We have a whole country full of restive people who are not contemplative.

Many regimes in the region held their silence but pursued cautious steps to ease economic strains for their restive people.

Today, Iraq remains a barely breathing carcass of a nation, unable to deliver something as simple as electricity to its restive people or pump enough oil to pay for the disaster.

He has not tried to take charge of events, leaving that central role to Mr. Gorbachev and, even more, to the restive peoples east of the Rhine.

He must sell the increasingly restive Greek people on more austerity with no clear signs of recovery.

As easygoing as we New Yorkers are, the night crowd has been known to become restive as people mill around the plaza.

In the last five years, the junta has forcibly resettled tens of thousands of potentially restive poor people from city centers to distant slums.

Small groups of restive young people turned a largely peaceful protest into a riot, setting fire to at least one building and a police van and clashing with police officers, who responded with water cannons and tear gas.

The look represents the vision nationalists have of the Basques – a rugged, self-reliant and restive mountain people – but with a touch of international, anti-globalisation, internationalist solidarity, all the while remaining solidly proletarian.

Instead, he moved in with a friend in Logar, a restive province people normally flee, to keep the Taliban's attention away from his family in Kabul, he said.

In Deir al-Zour, a tribal region in eastern Syria and one of the most restive locales, two people died when security forces shot at their protest, according to Maamoun Saleh, an activist there.