Sentences with phrase «already restive»

It had been well known that the Senate Republicans — and DeFrancisco in particular — are not big on the idea of another wage hike, fearful of further angering their already restive conservative base, not to mention their donors in the business community.

His Democratic Assembly caucus, particularly the younger members, were already restive, complaining that Silver had overstayed his welcome.

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

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But in 2014, something changed: A little - known, poorly funded Constitutional law professor named Zephyr Teachout ran against Cuomo in the Democratic primary and captured a third of the vote, proof that not only was a restive progressivism already brewing in the pre-Trump, pre-Sanders era, but that the party's liberals didn't care much for their governor.

The consequence is that other spending ministers such as Theresa May and Vince Cable, who have already been getting increasingly restive, will now be required to absorb even more pain.