Sentence examples for restive that from inspiring English sources

This Shiite town of 80,000, a once-bucolic village of fishing and farming turned into a tableau of urban distress, is so restive that even opposition leaders shake their heads at its defiance.

"It was not until years later, with the political critics poised, invective flowing and the national audience restive, that I fully understood all the emotions that had been so familiar to them".

Judging by the restive sighs that crowned the screening I went to, not everyone is fooled.

The government tour did not stop in Baba Amer or Khalidiya, two restive neighborhoods that have been plagued by violence.

Moreover, the Khalifa family could end up with a restive opposition that operates outside the electoral system.

In the restive period that followed, Louverture consolidated power, ultimately enforcing a labor code no less repressive than slavery.

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA The music of Ingram Marshall uses the laid-back sounds of California minimalism with a dark and restive style that is all his own.

It's worth hoping that Tunisia's secular Jasmine Revolution can seed similar uprisings in a restive Middle East that has undergone vast economic and social change, but suffers under the same sterile national security regimes that arose half a century ago.

Beneath the coast's moonlight-and-magnolias veneer was a restive spirit that reflected both a heterogeneous population and the fevered ambition that occasionally seizes small-time tourist centers.

The president is at a crucial point, with a restive party that is trying to figure out what its role and relationship with the White House will be leading up to the 2012 elections.

The predominantly Tibetan parts of Sichuan Province, which lies next to the official Tibetan Autonomous Region, have been among the restive areas that have experienced self-immolation protests against the Chinese presence and policies.