The assault bore the hallmarks of past crackdowns: the deployment of dozens of tanks and armored vehicles on the outskirts to intimidate residents, the cutting of some basic services, then arrest sweeps with random firing through the most restive places.
Dealing with local governments and tribal chiefs requires some delicate corporate diplomacy, and refineries in restive places sometimes deploy small armies of security guards for protection.
Charlottesville in autumn was a restive and romantic place.
But in restive Falluja, and places like it across the Sunni Muslim heartland of central Iraq, Saddam Hussein had so decimated the natural social hierarchy, Iraqis say, that no group could fill the political vacuum left by his ouster.
The self-immolations have all taken place in restive Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province.
Trials are taking place in the restive province of Wardak, south of Kabul, where a total of 1,200 AP3 volunteers are to be deployed.
The brazen assault took place in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province just a day after a suicide bombing near a mosque in another northwestern town, Hangu, killed at least 26 people.
Neither will there be any place for the restive North Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Dagestan, where impressive stadiums have been built in recent years and huge money invested in the local teams.
The Catholic Counter-Reformation was brutally effective in some places -- not unlike Syria's slaughter of its own Islamists -- but in other places it pushed restive societies like Holland into open insurgency.
Black-empowerment laws, a scarcity of water and electricity as well as a restive workforce make it a difficult place to operate.
