How To Use Restive In A Sentence
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I certainly don’t think that Iranian popular discontent should be disregarded, but we’ve been hearing these sorts of arguments about the restive Iranian population for years, and while I have no reason to believe that they aren’t true, Khamenei and his allies have consistently proven expert at deflecting calls for reform and preserving their regime, the main levers of which remain firmly in Khamenei’s hands.
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He knew some members of the congregation, including the president, grew restive during his discourse, and would have preferred a more oratorical, hortative style, but he felt his type of sermon was more in keeping with his basic function of teacher, implicit in the word "rabbi.
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
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Heavy shelling and bombardment rocked Somalias restive capital Mogadishu on Sunday, claiming the lives of at least 14 people Drag to Playlist
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The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin.
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Hamedan, 200 miles west of Tehran, is not known as a restive area, but it is close to a
The Seattle Times
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It may also force the regime to withdraw forces from other restive towns and cities to bolster its defence of the capital.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is it any wonder that the country grows restive and fractured as common sense seeps away from law enforcement?
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The ensign above him flapped restively in tune with the men under his inspection.
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Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes, [restive]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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Here is an impoverished country with a restive population demanding improvements to their lives.
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The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin.
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There, he would be another old person elbowed and nudged by the hordes in their restive wildebeest migration in search of gratification.
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Toddlers who fall asleep on their own tend to sleep more restively.
Study: Sharing bed with toddler won't harm development
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She shifted restively as he started delving his tongue into her sex.
Black Magic
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The government must realize that brute force alone will not pacify the restive region.
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The wonderful solidarity of domestic life is an important factor in the Chinese career, for centuries of ancestor-worship, in spite of their arrestive tendency, have strengthened the bonds of family union and filial obedience by insisting on the supreme sanctity of blood-relationship.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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It was a false scent, but ahead of him the horses grew restive, jostling and nipping, and the grey fretted against his hand.
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Away! you talk like a foolish _mauther_" -- says Restive to Dame Pliant in _Ben Jonson.
Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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But if we found wickedness in it -- vice, as we rightly call it -- if it became restive, that is, rebellious and self-willed, then we should punish it indeed.
The Good News of God
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It comes ‘in curvets and caprioles, with the flashing of glutted fish-runs’, and so on for a page of equally shimmery and restive fine-tuning.
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Those mestizoes who treat us as slaves, and strike us with the hand and whip, like restive mules.
The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
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All of this has the capacity to further inflame already restive populations in the region.
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Curators have always had to steer (in a timely fashion) between the demands of the general audience and those of restive academics.
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Communist leaders struggled to rule over increasingly restive populations.
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They were of a flamboyant Italian period, and more arrestive than distinguished.
The Grey Room
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Their people cannot be kept entirely ignorant of this situation, and become restive.
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Our long ride from Newark to Chester had wearied me, and the restive days of preparation had both excited and frighted me.
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Under pressure from medical organizations and restive nonsmokers, national governments around Europe are finally getting serious about tackling tobacco.
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A smaller and lighter horse, but restive and fiery, was brought to Legolas.
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Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a car bomb and raked a karaoke restaurant with gunfire in Thailand's restive south, wounding at least 17 people in back-to-back attacks in the volatile region, police said Sunday.
The Seattle Times
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The restive residents here need little encouragement to take to the streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hamedan, 200 miles (340 kilometers) west of Tehran, is not known as a restive area, but it is close to Kurdish area of Iran that has witnessed occasional clashes between Kurdish rebels and security forces over the past years.
Ahmadinejad Assassination Attempt? Grenade Attack Reported Near Iran Leader's Convoy
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Its paramilitary rangers yesterday said they had foiled a major attack bid in the restive port city of Karachi, recovering a huge cache of weapons but making no arrests.
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As Loveday and her companion mounted the last of the flight of stairs, the voice of the preacher – full, arrestive, resonant – fell upon their ear; and, standing on the small outside landing, it was possible to catch a glimpse of that preacher through the crack of the half-opened door.
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
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The explosion is in place nearest, in time first, and as to sound loudest, but this the most articulate and arrestive fact is employed exclusively for the purpose of producing the subsequent and more distant echo.
The Parables of Our Lord
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America and the proceeds would fund the salaries of government employees in the colonies, officials who would therefore be less accountable to the increasingly restive population.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forthwith, my satchel was opened and in a few moments the following arrestive words were scrawled in a mammoth hand: GREAT W.C. T.U. MEETING TO-MORROW
A slaveholder's daughter,
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Living on a Marine base on the edge of restive Ramadi is a shock to a civilian's senses.
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Uganda has bought at least eight fighter jets and other military hardware valued at $744 million from Russia as it prepares to start oil production in the Lake Albert region, along its border with restive eastern Congo, government officials said.
What's News
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One key to the carmaker's success over the last five years has been its ability to keep its traditionally restive labor unions at bay with near double-digit annual pay raises and other concessions.
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If his wife is restive, he sees welfare as a positive invitation from the state for her to dissolve the marriage.
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The crowd was growing increasingly restive.
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Did any parish officer, indeed, turn restive, and decline to pay a Deg, he soon found himself summoned before a magistrate, and such pleas of sickness, want of work, and poor earnings brought up, that he most likely got a sharp rebuke from the benevolent but uninquiring magistrate, and acquired a character for hard-heartedness that stuck to him.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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Their pantomime is ruthless and restive, always craving more but instantly jaded.
Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture
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A widely circulated tweet from the current uprising, which refers to the restive city of Homs, makes the point: "Homs 2011 = Hama 1982, but slowly, slowly.
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He could tell Emily was restive, eager to belt on her chatelaine's keys and rush off to primp the cushions.
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No, the workers were not restive, nor were pickets lining up outside.
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At that moment a young trooper, fresh-faced and smiling, found himself in trouble with a bunch of horses; in a second he slipped from the numnah, got a short hold of the reins, and jagged the restive chargers into obedient docility.
Kitchener, Organizer of Victory
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The hyarmi, five in all, caressed the necks of their restive mounts, calming them.
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In his mind, he's modernizing the paper, making it not only leaner, but also more responsive to a shifting and restive readership.
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The Tory ranks became increasingly restive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Dearmer is as arrestive in his way as Mr. Pennell.
Highways & Byways in Sussex
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He said that the group had been caught up in a restive political atmosphere after soldiers mutinied over pay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like a restive monkey, it dangles from each vine of contemplation for hardly a millisecond and moves ahead with indefatigable enthusiasm.
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The French had grown restive under an absolute monarchy that was no longer effective but was unable to produce meaningful reforms.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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No, the workers were not restive, nor were pickets lining up outside.
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The animal was restive, took the stone very much in dudgeon, ran, and carrying his rider under a tree, Mr. Randolph's forehead was struck by a low-lying limb, and he was thrown off.
Melbourne House
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Johen's reply broke Jande's concentration on Dilys and her daughter, and she could hear their horses giving truth to Johen's words as they stamped restively on the track.
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Communist leaders struggled to rule over increasingly restive populations.
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The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in, while excitedly imploring me not to do anything so foolish.
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He was owed at least nominal allegiance by his restive brothers, and ruled by a volatile combination of dictatorship and oligarchy.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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The French had grown restive under an absolute monarchy that was no longer effective but was unable to produce meaningful reforms.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin.
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The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.
Ptomaine Street
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During the trip, they had grown restive, quarrelsome, and hungry.
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The Filipinos were restive under the Spanish, and this long period was marked by numerous uprisings.
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the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive
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Similarly he could disguise his voice, the natural tones of which were low, monotonous, and of no arrestive quality.
The Grey Room
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It may also force the regime to withdraw forces from other restive towns and cities to bolster its defence of the capital.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said he found this a useful trick when addressing restive or sleepy audiences.
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After a moment or so of this, the women stirred restively.
Shameless
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Hamedan, 340km west of Tehran, is not known as a restive area, but it is close to Kurdish area of Iran that has witnessed occasional clashes between Kurdish rebels and security forces over the past years.
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The finale (Ucelli sulle passioni), which, like the second movement, proceeds without pause, begins restively and roils like a volcano on the verge of eruption.
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The Tory ranks became increasingly restive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such resentful people easily become restive; should a promising opportunity to throw off the oppressor's dominion present itself, they may seize it.
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America and the proceeds would fund the salaries of government employees in the colonies, officials who would therefore be less accountable to the increasingly restive population.
Times, Sunday Times
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If his wife is restive, he sees welfare as a positive invitation from the state for her to dissolve the marriage.
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Discontented with the lack of political rights, government corruption, and economic hardship, the country became increasingly restive during the 1980s, erupting into violent ethnic confrontations in 1992.
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The minute hand on the clock above the Walls Unit entrance swept around past the 3, the 6, the 9, creeping toward 9 o'clock as the crowd looked on restively.
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Her beautiful white shoulders showed up the duskiness of her hair; her head was distinguished and arrestive.
There was a King in Egypt
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While some of its specifics are a problem, the overall argument provides a coherent, long-sighted perspective on this most restive period in the history of the stage.
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As in the restive south and east of Afghanistan, the agencies are populated by self-ruling Pashtun tribes for whom war has been a way of life for centuries.
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Unions are growing restive, demanding a bigger slice of the pie - which could spark disruptive strikes if they don't get it.
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Raphael heard Charmian's restive breathing, and a tear slid down his nose onto the furs he rested his head on.
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He was owed at least nominal allegiance by his restive brothers, and ruled by a volatile combination of dictatorship and oligarchy.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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The country's social needs - in education and health care especially - are rising because of a growing population and an increasingly restive one.
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Tizzy placed her arms round her brother's neck and clung tightly while he played the restive steed, and raised Cook's ire to red-hot point by purposely kicking one of the Windsor chairs, making it scroop on the beautifully-white floor of the front kitchen, and making the queen of the domain rush out at him, looking red-eyed and ferocious, for the onion-juice had affected her.
Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others
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Similar appeals to restive Protestant gunmen came Thursday from civic and church leaders and government officials.
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Not surprisingly, those who are averse to surrendering their sovereignty have become increasingly restive of late.
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I stared at the boy who had appeared in front of us, out of that leather-clad, gun-bearing, restively shifting throng that had appeared around us out of nowhere.
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The desperate squeakings about the old house on windy nights that to Anthony were burglars with revolvers ready in hand represented to Gloria the auras, evil and restive, of dead generations, expiating the inexpiable upon the ancient and romantic hearth.
The Beautiful and Damned
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A restive population is demanding the birth of some new dispensation to take charge and solve our problems.
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But as the slowdown bit, unemployment rose and tax revenues fell, finance ministers became increasingly restive under a regime which asked for balanced budgets and promised fines for backsliders.
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There he stood, the big brown hero, unexalted, soothing the still restive horse and unaware of having done anything out of the ordinary.
The Nature of Goodness
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A deep silence settled upon his chest, his eyes dilated, his breathing became sporadic and restive.
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It comes ‘in curvets and caprioles, with the flashing of glutted fish-runs’, and so on for a page of equally shimmery and restive fine-tuning.
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Not surprisingly, those who are averse to surrendering their sovereignty have become increasingly restive of late.
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What he saw reflected there was the exact likeness of one of the pretas, the restive spirits doomed to parch and starve because of their attachments to past lives, his hair white as death and flung out to every point of the compass, his limbs like sticks, his face seared like a hot dog left too long on the grill.
The Silence
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Two women "ferrymen" found room to row in front, the coachman attended to his horses, one of which was inclined to be restive, while a man, whose flaxen hair was so light it looked positively white against his red burnt neck, stood rowing behind us; and thus in three-quarters of an hour we reached the other side, in as wonderful a transport as the trains we had seen put on steamers in Denmark, Sicily, or the States, but much more exciting and primitive.
Through Finland in Carts
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Uganda has bought at least eight fighter jets and other military hardware worth $744 million from Russia as it prepares to start oil production in the Lake Albert region, along its border with restive eastern Congo, government officials said.
World Watch
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he sat down again, restively
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He moved restively, and Beth got the feeling that he was in the throes of doing battle with some inner demon.
Shameless
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I'm one of the lucky ones I suppose, whose dreams are balanced between distractingly epic and restively mundane.
Howard Hughes and the Wretched Crack of Noon
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The government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive.
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Thai police: Insurgent attacks in south wound 17 Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a car bomb and raked a karaoke restaurant with gunfire in Thailand's restive south, wounding at least 17 people in back-to-back attacks in the volatile region, police said Sunday.
The Seattle Times
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She came into the club room one evening in time to hear the president call the restive members to order with the statement, "You might just as well keep quiet for she is bound to finish it, and the quicker she gets to reading, the longer time we'll have for dancing.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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A most violent _gregale_ swept the bare beach of the harbour as we proceeded to the gardens and plantations of the Masheeah, and the restive prancing of the horse was not unlike the dancing about of the cockle-shell bark to which I had been condemned for the last ten days.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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Consumers have become increasingly restive about the absence of any legislative guarantee that anything of value will be returned to society as reimbursement for the monopoly rights they have ceded.
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In the right frame of mind any crucial five minutes could amuse the most restive psyche, despite which fact you feel certain that you could easily destroy a universe of time.