Sentence examples for that restive from inspiring English sources

Ambrose Bierce, for instance, was sure that restive and restless should have "directly contrary meanings".

On the contrary, Saudi Arabia's resource-fueled strategy is a response to rising discontent across the region, and it is driven by a deep-seated fear that restive populations across the Arab world could incite unrest closer to home.

Led by EARF's commander, Lieutenant Colonel Lee Magee, the 45-man platoon was dispatched to that restive nation (midwifed into being by the U.S. only a few years earlier) as it slid toward civil war with armed factions moving close to the U.S. embassy in the capital, Juba.

Once in office, it's hard for any president to fully embody the reform that a restive electorate may have hoped for.

Prudential, a British insurer unrelated to Prudential Financial of the United States, had told A.I.G. that its restive shareholder base would not support the deal unless the price was cut.

Written and hosted by the series' artistic director, Deborah Grace Winer, it offered filet mignon for an audience that becomes restive when the programming strays from the great American songbook's main composers, and chicken is the entree.

Now, that notoriously restive section has allowed itself to become integrated in a larger, shimmering sound of strings, winds, and percussion, and the result is a jewel beyond price.

Iran's Kurds have long presented a delicate subject for the government, which fears that the restive population will join Kurds in Iraq and Turkey to try to form a Kurdish nation.

BEIJING — The Communist Party chief of Sichuan Province, a large area in western China that includes restive Tibetan towns, visited some of the Tibetan areas earlier this week and urged residents to follow the law and oppose separatism, according to a report Friday in Sichuan Daily, an official newspaper.

History suggests that the restive will win, certainly not overnight, but in the long run.

Spain's deputy prime minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría said that the restive region had until Thursday to back down on its push for independence, or it would face the imposition of direct rule from Madrid.