(a.) Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.
(a.) Inactive; sluggish.
(a.) Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.
(a.) Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; -- applied especially to horses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Egypt's army has announced a full-scale assault on militant areas in the restive northern Sinai desert, in what a senior Israeli official has approvingly called Egypt's first-ever serious counter-terrorism campaign in the region.
(2) The bombings shattered more than two months of relative calm across the restive country.
(3) Security in the restive North Caucasus region has long been a concern.
(4) Another view would propose that the restiveness of some current and past theorists to claim the mantle of "science" continues to lead to premature and awkward attempts to couple psychoanalysis with putative neighbors rather than stick to its last of shaping its own findings into a language reflecting a coherent theory capable of validation.
(5) In 2012 insurgent commanders in the restive tribal areas of North and South Waziristan banned polio teams from their territories in what they said was retaliation for US drone strikes.
(6) Seoul and its allies now face the dilemma of how to respond, as the South Korean public becomes increasingly restive over what many see as the North's immunity from reprisals.
(7) The effects of high rates of stimulation on the internal longitudinal restivity (Ri) and conduction velocity (theta) were studied on rabbit papillary muscle preparations using a silicon-oil chamber.
(8) And you have to have certainty.” The crowd was restive.
(9) • Restiveness seemed to grow in the US with the government of Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki , but it was unclear whether the Obama administration would publicly call for Maliki's exit.
(10) As the Guardian's Golnar Motevalli reported : "The Afghan government has ordered US special forces to leave one of Afghanistan's most restive provinces, Maidan Wardak, after receiving reports from local officials claiming that the elite units had been involved in the torture and disappearance of Afghan civilians.
(11) This made it desperately hard to carry credibility with MPs — crucial in a coalition parliament where all votes matter and the partners are increasingly restive.
(12) We see him moving forces in the south in a position where he could take the southern region over to Moldova.” Nato officials are concerned that Putin could have designs on Transnistria, a restive Russian-speaking region in western Moldova also known as Trans-Dniester, where separatist leaders have demanded to be allowed to join Russia following the annexation of Crimea.
(13) Boomers who got their start and their breaks in a forgiving welfare democracy are perennially surprised when young people without the financial capacity for independence become restive in junior jobs, readily leave them for better-paid opportunities, or comport themselves differently in the workplace.
(14) At least 74 people have been killed in three weekend attacks in Nigeria's restive north-east, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives since 2009.
(15) China says it faces a serious threat from groups such as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which operates in China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, where hundreds have died in violence in recent years.
(16) Several months on, Piano appears still to be grappling with the idea that he – the son of a builder from Genoa, the architectural rebel who came of age in restive 1960s Milan – is now a fully paid-up member of the establishment.
(17) It sent troops to neighbouring Bahrain to crush unrest that pitted the Shia majority against the Sunni al-Khalifa regime, partly out of fear of the "contagion" spreading to its own restive eastern provinces.
(18) He was invited to the remote base on the restive border with Pakistan after offering urgent information to help locate Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, Associated Press reported.
(19) The usually more restive southern regions, the Taliban's birthplace and spiritual heartland remain largely calm.
(20) Russian authorities have insisted there will be no security threats to the event, despite the city lying just west of the restive North Caucasus region.
Stubborn
Definition:
(a.) Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(2) Of course there are some who are stubborn, like Robert Mugabe.
(3) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
(4) It’s clear their relationship is most similar to that of a stubborn son and his long suffering mother.
(5) The contrast between these two worlds – one legal and flourishing, the other illegal and stubbornly disregarding of state lines – can seem baffling, yet it may have profound consequences for whether this unique experiment spreads.
(6) The causes of failure after acute injury include extensive local soft tissue and bony damage, severe concomitant head, chest or abdominal wounding, stubborn reliance on negative arteriograms in patients with probable arterial injury, failure to repair simultaneous venous injuries, or harvesting of a vein graft from a severely damaged extremity.
(7) "It was the character of David Cameron – his stubbornness, his anger and his rush towards war – which was the central cause of his defeat on Thursday night."
(8) Rebus, promised the Scottish author, will be "as stubborn and anarchic as ever", and will find himself in trouble with the author's latest creation, Malcolm Fox, of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit.
(9) A rising jobless total and an unemployment rate sticking at a stubbornly high 8% overshadowed a better than expected 27,100 fall in the claimant count in April, which compared with analysts' forecasts for a 20,000 drop.
(10) But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze things, gets in my way.
(11) One is the stubborn mystery of how a giant of its liberation movements, an intellectual who showed forgiveness and magnanimity years before Mandela emerged from jail, could turn into the living caricature of despotism.
(12) Sanctioning is no longer a last resort tactic aimed at the stubbornly workshy, say critics, but a crude way of pushing down claimant numbers and cutting back on the benefits bill.
(13) He was only 29 at the time, but nevertheless had that kind of stubborn certainty.
(14) They have a sort of stubbornness.” He later deals with hecklers at a Fifa HQ press event : “Listen, gentlemen, we are not in a bazaar .
(15) Dombrovskis stubbornly refused, instead pursuing "internal devaluation", depressing wages and conducting what he says was a 17% fiscal adjustment programme (the IMF says 15%).
(16) They formed a stubborn line in front of Wojciech Szczesny’s goal even if the statistics showed Arsenal’s pass-completion rate went down from 89% in the first half to 66% in the second.
(17) This was the first time a grouping of BME senior managers crossing health and social care had met together to look at barriers to gaining top jobs, and ways of breaking through systems which stubbornly never seem to shift.
(18) Broadly defined, this sort of behaviour involves procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, obstructionism, self-pity and a tendency to create chaotic situations.
(19) At which point – obviously – you reach the stubborn limits of the debate: from even the most supposedly imaginative Labour people as much as any Tories, such heresies would presumably be greeted with sneering derision.
(20) A stubborn negativity characterised the insurrection.