Restive in a sentence

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.

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She’s been replaced by GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and it’s unclear what kind of reception restive Republican will give the Democratic president.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.

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.

Rakhine State, where the AA is undertaking a military offensive, has been restive for years and is home to the Rohingya community.

Should Conservative mayors Andy Street and Ben Houchen hold on, he may win some respite from restive lawmakers in his party.

To avoid the chaos of McCarthy’s ouster, Johnson and the House GOP’s restive portion that they’d agreed to increase the minimum number of votes needed to force a motion to vacate from one to nine.

All of this is subject to change, as U.S. troops overseas and at home become increasingly restive and Pentagon officials stumble in their attempts at managing the imperium during its exacerbated descent.

A recent wave of deadly attacks in the southern part of Nigeria’s restive Kaduna State has brought the seemingly never-ending cycle of communal violence and impunity in the state back into focus.

As Irish voters prepare to choose a new parliament on Saturday, a restive electorate is rattling the two parties that have dominated the country's politics since it won independence from Britain a century ago, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.