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Restive meaning
Impatient under delay, duress, or control. | Resistant to control; stubborn. | Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction.
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Eight school teachers were killed on Thursday in two separate incidents of targeted shooting in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal district, bordering Afghanistan, in a case of possible sectarian violence, police said.
If you read his renewed hope manifesto, you will see how he promised to tackle insecurity via employment generation, so that our restive youths can be engaged.
In Peshawar, in the restive northwest, labor organizations and trade unions held indoor events to demand better workers’ rights amid high inflation.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine authorities on Monday prepared to send a search mission near the crater of a restive volcano after they spotted the suspected wreckage of a small plane that went missing with four people on board over the weekend.
Not only is Putin’s military depleted and divided, but his economy is a wreck, his citizenry restive and his own strongman reputation tarnished.
Rising inflation has contributed to a restive mood in France, but at a deeper level the overhaul attempt reveals ingrained attitudes toward work, equated with drudgery, and retirement, equated with the freedom at last to enjoy life.
She’s been replaced by GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and it’s unclear what kind of reception restive Republican will give the Democratic president.
Some unknown militants on February 12 stormed the house of a police officer and opened indiscriminate firing, injuring eight persons in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, local police said.
Still restive when the war in Vietnam ended and the POWs held in Hanoi came home, the phrases caught new wind.
The workers were restive about the government’s restructured compensation system.
A banned ethnic separatist group in a restive province claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in Quetta, the provincial capital.
ALL LIGHTED UP Residents of La Castellana, Negros Occidental welcome the Christmas lighting event at their town center on Monday night, which proceeded despite the continued threat posed by the restive Mt. Kanlaon.
And the more a restive world plays into Trump’s caricature of a planet careening toward World War III, the harder the campaign may become for Biden.
But a restive G.O.P. voter base is dead set against sending another round of taxpayer money to Ukraine, and rank-and-file Republicans, especially in the slim-majority House, have flexed their muscles to oppose any real movement.
Despite the signing in 2022 of a peace agreement that ended two years of civil war, parts of Ethiopia remain restive and conflict is raging in the country’s Amhara State between regional militia and federal forces.
Imperialists of both yester-years and today are happiest when they can embroil a restive or unruly colony in disorder and violent chaos, as is now being revealed in Bangladesh.
JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Police say two Papuan separatist leaders were killed in a shootout between security forces and their rebel group near one of the world’s largest gold mines in Indonesia’s restive Papua region.
MANILA, Philippines — Mt. Kanlaon on Negros Island became restive anew just as Taal volcano in Batangas, which has had a series of steam-driven explosions since early this month, has calmed down.
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers in restive southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing seven people, including five nearby children, officials said.
Rakhine State, where the AA is undertaking a military offensive, has been restive for years and is home to the Rohingya community.