Sentence examples for restive period from inspiring English sources
In the restive period that followed, Louverture consolidated power, ultimately enforcing a labor code no less repressive than slavery.
He worked erratically, in spurts punctuated by long, restive periods of inaction.
More to the point, the restive states north of the Ohio River had to be quieted.
James Baldwin visited Florida A. & M. during a period of friction between its wary administration and restive students.
After a period of uneasy quiet, the majority Albanian population has been growing restive about the slow progress toward independence.
"It was a long and agonizing period, and the longer it went on, the more people got restive," says Mr. Varnedoe of the slow-motion succession.
Meanwhile shareholders are growing ever more restive and demanding.Add to these the fact that companies are passing through a period of unusually disruptive change, in which different qualities may be needed to manage a business.
The "dead or alive" comment may have made the country feel better for a short period, but it was unsettling to leaders of other nations, some of whom have to reassure nervous and potentially restive populations that Washington is not planning an anti-Islamic campaign.
