restive
Example Sentences
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According to the police, at least 16 officers were wounded and 13 arrests made at the demonstration in Tirana, the latest in a series of restive anti-governmental rallies called by opposition leader Sali Berisha.
From Barron's
The military has long presented itself as the only force guarding restive Myanmar from rupture and ruin.
From Barron's
But Jewan concealed an anti-colonial streak and Sikh activists gathered to talk rebellion at a retreat he built on the Ravi River, which zigzags across what is now the restive border between Pakistan and India.
The countries have fought two wars over the restive region.
From BBC
Yet, however destructive to his personal life, Matthiessen’s restive, yearning nature animated the best of his fiction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
