Sentence examples for very restive from inspiring English sources

Xinjiang is a desolate and sparsely populated province in northwestern China with a harsh climate, vast deserts and a very restive Uighur population.

Soldiers think if they are going to serve the government, the government should openly respect them … The army is very restive right now".

Ms Saunders said Tibetans in Ganzi prefecture were "strong in their religious beliefs" and the area had "been very restive for some time".

Guy de Maupassant has been blessed in the directors who have transposed his work to the cinema, but he merits his good fortune; something in Maupassant's vision of the world — the impulsive motion of heart and loins alike, tirelessly tracked by his restive prose — comes very close to the habits of a roving camera.

By Anthony Lane Guy de Maupassant has been blessed in the directors who have transposed his work to the cinema, but he merits his good fortune; something in Maupassant's vision of the world — the impulsive motion of heart and loins alike, tirelessly tracked by his restive prose — comes very close to the habits of a roving camera.

But observers say that in the long term, unless the U.S. uses its leverage to negotiate for reforms, we run the real risk of driving an increasingly restive Shia population into the very arms of the one country we fear the most right now... Shia-dominated Iran.

The drone strikes — in which American forces use unmanned, remotely guided aircraft to fire missiles at suspected members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the restive tribal areas — are very unpopular in Pakistan.

Very little information appeared to be making it out of the restive Syrian city of Hama on Thursday as activists and international media struggled to assess the situation after tanks rolled in to take control.

And yet, in the view of many restive traditionalists at the paper, that line has been crossed in the very news pages she is in charge of.

His wife, Louise, whom he had foolishly prevented from pursuing an acting career, has grown increasingly restive, and has moved toward a romantic Catholicism that severely tested the patience of the not very ardently Episcopal Perkins.

"A lot of people are very, very nervous about Ron Paul," said Mark Lucas, a first lieutenant in the Iowa National Guard who led a platoon in restive Paktia Province of Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011.