Sentence examples for restive student from inspiring English sources
The boy proves a brilliant but restive student, torn between his teacher's ideals — the notion that the intellect is "the divine seed in man that no other animal shares" — and the demands of his militaristic culture, in which to call a man an animal is praise.
The boy proves a brilliant but restive student, torn between his teacher's ideals the notion that the intellect is "the divine seed in man that no other animal shares"—and the demands of his militaristic culture, in which to call a man an animal is praise.
James Baldwin visited Florida A. & M. during a period of friction between its wary administration and restive students.
A short, tough Texan born with a withered right arm into a family of strict Presbyterians who never told him of his father's Jewish forebears or of an aunt gassed at Auschwitz, Dr. Silber had fought battles all his life: against taunting bullies as a boy, academic rivals as a University of Texas professor and restive students, professors and alumni at Boston University.
Many presidents of black colleges — as well as the coaches who worked for them — felt an excruciating tension between the white governors and legislatures that controlled their jobs and the righteously restive students who had grown up amid Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott and the March on Washington.
When the regime decided to crack down on restive students, Ms. Ghahramani was plucked from the sidewalk by plainclothes police officers, whisked away to jail and ushered into a netherworld populated by sadists, bland functionaries and, in the cell above hers, an insane murderer who taunted the guards to provoke savage beatings.
The university has been a notable exception to that support, largely because it draws students from a wide area, particularly the nearby restive province of Idlib where some of the fiercest clashes between government forces and the opposition continue to rage.
Gunmen have stormed a university in the restive Anbar province west of Baghdad and are holding dozens of students hostage, Iraqi officials said Saturday.
Prabowo has a dark past filled with allegations of human rights abuses during his military career, including the torture and kidnapping of student activists during the turmoil that brought down his father-in-law and deadly suppression of dissent in restive provinces such as West Papua and East Timor (now an independent state).
