Sentence examples for restive with from inspiring English sources

During the World War, Roy Howard had been restive with Pegler's offensiveness.

Backbenchers are also restive, with one warning that the new refugees would "take jobs that Australians can do".

But by the mid-1960s, Jennings was growing increasingly restive with what he described as music "awash in strings, mooning and crooning and juneing".

He said members of the crime family had grown restive with the role of Gotti relatives as leaders in the crime family since the elder John Gotti's imprisonment.

By the late '70s, the union had grown even more restive with the influx of hundreds of younger, Vietnam-era controllers who often had a reflexive distrust of authority figures.

Staff are restive, with some still angry over how the recent departures of hosts Joy Reid and Ronan Farrow were handled, and are wondering how long the channel president, Griffin, can hold his spot.

With a restive electorate, with an economy that's sort of chugging along, with a war in the background, at the end of eight years of Republican rule in the White House, Obama should be well ahead".

In a 40-year career, those assignments have taken Ms. Patterson from the guerrilla-infested jungles of Colombia to the shadowy drone wars of Pakistan, where she gained experience dealing with a weak civilian government and a restive military with a penchant for coups.

In January, David Cameron was supposed to have shot Ukip's fox and bought off his restive backbenchers with the promise of an in-out EU referendum by 2017.

In eastern Ukraine, Stalin's regime killed 7 million people in an artificially created famine called Golodomor in the 1930s, to replace a restive population with a more loyal one.

The much-vaunted deep sea port built in restive Balochistan with the apparent aim of giving a Chinese presence at the mouth of the Persian Gulf has barely scratched its full potential.