(1) The standoff has become a personal battle for the soul of the French right, a contest between Sarkozy’s jumpy and divisive personality and Juppé’s pipe-and-slippers calm.
(2) "Security forces have been on high alert for the last six days, jumpy, and were concerned that something might happen.
(3) "Jumpy" guards failed to recognise their leader and opened fire on a perceived security threat.
(4) However, Cameron has always been jumpy about highlighting these differences, acutely aware of the history of Downing Street battles, including Blair-Brown.
(5) Lewis was also aware that many in the unionist community were extremely jumpy about Corbyn’s Irish republican politics, and he thought his continued presence might reassure.
(6) The jumpy mood over MPs' behaviour was heightened when Fabricant was suddenly sacked for a series of injudicious tweets, including one saying it was about time Miller was sacked.
(7) Labour strategists were, in private, hilariously paranoid and jumpy, like dogs cowering at a firework display David Hare It was this kind of human weakness and fallibility that, up close, made the Labour party 20-odd years ago so sympathetic.
(8) Jay Pharoah and Shasheer Zamata’s Jay Z and Solange impressions were flawless, as was Keenan Thompson as Jay’s jumpy bodyguard and Maya Rudolph as Beyoncé.
(9) Twelve who retained 72 per cent of the load were normal or small at birth, amply fed on demand, and grew at accelerated rates, increasing from the 50th to the 88th mean percentile by ten weeks, when they were "fat, hungry, jumpy babies," exemplifying the Mg deficiency syndrome of growth.
(10) Arsenal were by turns sluggish, incisive and oddly jumpy as Olivier Giroud scored at both ends, one Sunderland’s equaliser, the other the second of his side’s three goals.
(11) Two-week-old pups of both strains showed good acquisition and retention in learning tests without shock, but the "jumpy" behavior disturbed performance to a certain degree in the SRH strain.
(12) Mauritanian sources said "jumpy" military guards at a checkpoint mistook Abdel Aziz, who was returning to the capital, Nouakchott, after a trip to the desert, for a security threat.
(13) Investors have become jumpy about any potential threat to the publisher's balance sheet should the civil cases result in damages payments.
(14) In the meantime, survivors of major catastrophes who experience acute symptoms of PTSD such as insomnia, nightmares, and jumpiness should be observed for nonresolution of symptoms over time, especially if there is a premorbid history of psychopathology or character problems.
(15) It is guarded by jumpy soldiers who permit no vehicle to stop near it, let alone any photographs.
(16) I get jumpy when someone honks their horn, and occasionally I have bad dreams and wake up at night, my wife asking me: “What’s up?”, and I tell her I’m being chased by Germans.
(17) The Tory scramble for a riposte shows how jumpy they are – and with good reason.
(18) When he affirmed that he did, I said that Tonight's the Night seemed like the inevitable culmination of the path Young blazed with Time Fades Away – his jumpy, nearly-out-of-control live album – and the intensely introspective On the Beach.
(19) Brussels attacker 'caught in Turkey last June', Turkish president says – live Read more On the first of three days of national mourning, the mood in the city was at once proud and sad, defiant and jumpy.
(20) The best new play category is between One Man, Two Guvnors, The Ladykillers, Collaborators and Jumpy , which was at the Royal Court and transfers to the West End this year.
Uneasy
Definition:
(a.) Not easy; difficult.
(a.) Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.
(a.) Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.
(a.) Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
(2) I appreciate things like that.” News about things like overreach in government surveillance make her uneasy but she said her tendency would be to shrug and say: “As long as I have no plans to threaten the national security, I don’t really have any reason to worry.” “In term of health privacy though, once we start thinking about health and our families, I think it’s very easy to realize that this is the most sensitive personal information about us,” she said.
(3) Sometimes the public’s legitimate fears are exposed: in Colombia there’s no doubt the public felt uneasy about forgiving Farc for its bloody violence.
(4) William’s trip will put a spotlight on his father’s uneasy relationship with China and raise questions about why Charles has yet to make an official visit to the country.
(5) In short, Bamako remains uneasy, and the "sacred union" of the last few days can only be temporary.
(6) As MPs return from their summer holidays, Conservative rebellions are looming over rising rail fares, rising fuel duty and, as we report today, Tory councillors are growing increasingly uneasy over planned cuts in council tax relief which they say will hit low earners disproportionately hard in April.
(7) People wander this disconcerting garden a long time, uneasy and reflective.
(8) With a few striking exceptions, such as William Dalrymple and Philip Hensher , contemporary writers have become wary of engaging with it in all its complicated, uneasy-making richness.
(9) At the same time, approximately one-third were aware of reporting issues that needed to be addressed, including staff unfamiliarity with the regulations, concerns of confidentiality, and uneasiness about reporting in general.
(10) But Cameron said he felt uneasy that in the film Assange appears to be more concerned about the fate of people who leaked documents to WikiLeaks – an apparent reference to Chelsea Manning – rather than people whose security may have been jeopardised by the leaks.
(11) Sorry, I mean it would be the department of trade.” She gives a shrill, uneasy laugh.
(12) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
(13) We are still in the midst of the uneasy period of phoney war before the cuts actually bite, but we now know what's coming: the deepest and quickest reductions in public spending since the 1920s – which, according to an under-reported quote from David Cameron , will not be reversed, even when our economic circumstances improve (2 August, at an event in Birmingham: "Should we cut things now and go back later and try and restore them later?
(14) This was an evident need since up to now each school applied a different criterion to qualify its graduates; the resulting disparity in the scores with which graduates applied for the National calls in postgraduate training programs, general practice positions and the like, elicited uneasiness both among graduates and academic staff.
(15) We insist upon the priority of the relationship doctor-patient in the case of a chronicle affection, which is less uneasy for some and shameful for a great many.
(16) Turkish police appeared uneasy at the size of the crowd gathered near a fragile border fence and fired teargas grenades to disperse them, adding the crack of smaller explosions to the rumbling of the Isis advance.
(17) Key party members stressed they had no master plan in response to the vote, but said it could not be ignored and argued many Conservatives were uneasy about the reforms.
(18) Browne said he was "instinctively uneasy" about restricting religious freedoms, but he added there may be a case to act to protect girls who were too young to decide for themselves whether they wished to wear the veil or not.
(19) If you genuinely do distrust industrial production, if you do believe that a mass, mechanised civilisation is incompatible in some way with democracy, post-fossil fuel economy or a humane society in general – and such opinions are not rare – then you necessarily have to own up to the critique, something that the guiltily uneasy combination of hay bales and laptops found at many protest camps can make especially uncomfortable.
(20) In certain telling ways the response of the nation’s leaders to the recent market crash is emblematic of a much larger dilemma – one that sits right at the heart of China’s uneasy fusion of communism and free-market economics, a system with little precedent and no operating manual.