Sentence examples for restive population from inspiring English sources

Tibet's restive population is a time bomb whose detonator, the Dalai Lama, is with India.

But the region does seem a tempting target for outside agitators, with a restive population of unemployed young men.

China has an uneducated, increasingly restive population, one historically prone to swift and often disastrous alignments behind charismatic leaders.

They know they have a restive population, and they fear that even a small opening will make room for a bigger wedge.

They say he is eager to instill in a restive population a sense that occupation will eventually give way to a new Iraqi state governed by Iraqis.

With some of the most polluted air on the planet, killing as many as 4,000 people a day, an increasingly restive population is demanding more government action.

Both Iran and Iraq have restive populations longing for freedom from political and religious repression.

It's something that autocrats throw around to keep their grip on restive populations.

An even greater danger is that increasingly restive populations might conclude that no approach at all will work.

The young king returned in triumph to deal forcefully with restive populations at Paris and Rouen and in Languedoc.

Stalin closed more than 26,000 mosques but the Red Star, Thubron reports, never shone brightly over the Islamic USSR; now its restive populations are infiltrated by al-Qaeda.