Sentence examples for were restive from inspiring English sources

With a midterm election less than a year away, Republicans in Congress were restive.

The "don't be evil" brand was getting tarnished, and the founders were restive.

By 2003, China's trade surplus with the United States was ballooning, and lawmakers in Congress were restive.

The Taliban, however, were restive protégés -- and Al Qaeda offered backing without all the Pakistani strings attached.

They were restive about being shut out of the smoke-filled Chicago hotel room where Harding had been given the top spot.

Meanwhile, players were restive: 29 years under Seiji Ozawa, or any one conductor in these quick and mobile times, made them so.

Workers are restive.

Yet Hungary is restive.

The military was restive.

The government is restive.

The crowd was restive.