On the street, the civil servants who were massed around the government-owned banks, waiting to be paid — foreign banks closed after the regional central bank cut Mr. Gbagbo off, instantly blocking about 93 percent of bank accounts, diplomats and bankers said — were restive last week, but not rioting.
"I said, 'But I'm too young for this!' And he [president Giorgio Napolitano] said, 'No, you're not.'" Several months on, Piano appears still to be grappling with the idea that he – the son of a builder from Genoa, the architectural rebel who came of age in restive 1960s Milan – is now a fully paid-up member of the establishment.
Incidents have grown in scale and sophistication and have spread outside the restive area since late last year.
The crash came after the bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula last October that killed all 224 people on board.
Analysts say the group, which surfaced in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula last year, is probably responsible for most of the more complex and sophisticated operations against security compounds in Egypt since the military coup.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian government has launched a bloody assault to retake Homs, the country's third-largest city, facing armed defectors who have prevented the government's forces from seizing it as they did other restive locales this summer, in what may stand as one of the most violent episodes in an eight-month uprising.
Fighting also flared in other parts of the country's restive East today.
Similarly, he claims that, in 1968, restive French workers, whose confrontational 1967 strikes Marker himself filmed, were intimidated by government propaganda into refusing to throw their weight behind protesting students, whose uprising thus petered out.
The visit – Jonathan's first to the city since March 2013 – was shrouded in secrecy and came after a previous trip to the restive region in May last year was cancelled.
Real wages fell, making the unions restive, and in 1917 junior officers formed juntas and struck for better conditions.
The kids in the audience loved it but some grew restive in the second half of the concert, which was given over to the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Andrea Quinn.
