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restive sentence examples

  • The consultants are getting a bit restive about their negotiations.
  • The old bureaucracy, particularly the increasingly restive military caste, is pressing for an increasingly aggressive foreign policy.
  • The english colonies, with the enemy thus in their rear, grew ever more restive.
  • Restive populations, governments are likely to return to protective barriers.
  • Another is that some parts of central iraq populated by the once dominant sunni community remain too restive to assure a large voter turnout.
  • A territory where no presence is maintained could become restive, causing production to suffer, or even rebel.
  • Restive kurdish minority.
  • The french, we heard, were getting restive.
  • Restive horse.
  • Restive city of baquba, northeast of baghdad.
  • Restive youths should this ugly trend continue.
  • Restive crowd threw stones and attempts were made to rush the building.

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