Sentences with phrase «of restive»

Mural (1943), commissioned by the legendary collector Peggy Guggenheim to cover an entire wall of her Manhattan townhouse, is an enormous canvas of restive curls that jostle in a tangle of colour.

They are the markings, of a restive, smoldering intelligence — barreling through ideas, conjoining and discarding influences, resisting and succumbing to the pull of the senses.

This one is made up of a 7 inch 800 x 480 resolution touch screen of restive technology upfront while behind the scenes is an ARM11 CPU running at 667 MHz.

Kircher, who reportedly had himself lowered into the crater of a restive Mount Vesuvius in 1638, has been described as «one of the last thinkers who could rightfully claim all knowledge as his domain.»

Now, many of his proposals will lie in the hands of a restive and potentially uncooperative Legislature.

Not exact matches

As its costs of commodities and food skyrockets, its citizens» restive ambitions are thwarted by the limits facing all consuming nations, and its aging populace catches up with it, then China's resources will be stretched too thin to construct a Grand Empire with decisive hard and soft power.

The title of her latest book, she explains, is meant as a caution about the future of leadership: «For nearly everywhere, leaders are found wanting, followers are restive, and the context is changing... unless we get a grip, the prognosis is grim.»

In short, clergy were caught between the expectations of their ecclesiastical superiors and a restive lay following.

This conception of power takes on a darker color if the fact of inequality is united with the restive quality of human freedom.

Their pietism, which I confused with Lutheranism, early made me restive, not least because of my precocious reading of Britannica articles on evolution and Gibbon's Decline and Fall (my father's library was short on comic books).

Some members are restive about seating patterns at worship that are too strung out to express the unity of the worshipers.

As for the temptations which arise out of the denominational organization of the Church, warnings against them are frequent; many ministers, students and teachers become restive when the primacy of denominational loyalties is urged upon them.

(CNN)- Islamist militants in Nigeria's restive north have taken the lives of 34 people since Christmas, including 27 Christians attending church services.

CNN: Nigerian forces kill 13 Boko Haram militants after church attacks Islamist militants in Nigeria's restive north have taken the lives of 34 people since Christmas, including 27 Christians attending church services.

The field belongs increasingly to those who have experienced the richness and depths of the tradition and who are restive with the something - new - every - week folks who, in Luther's words, have «no more than an itch to produce something novel so that they might shine before men as leading lights.»

It is hard to sympathize with the restive Mertons against the Contemplative Merton who joined the Trappists fully knowing and desiring a life of restrictions on correspondence, visitors, and involvement with the outside world.

Where once the Democrat - dominated New York City Council was once a reliable ally of the Democratic mayor, the two branches have increasingly been split as the Council speaker, Corey Johnson, leads an emboldened and restive body itching to take on de Blasio and his administration.

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.

She is supportive of the Common Core education standards, but at a news conference following her election as commissioner, Elia spoke in conciliatory terms when discussing teachers, whose statewide umbrella union has been especially restive over the changes.

Indeed, the party, which has never run a candidate of its own, has not ruled out endorsing someone else this election year as its rank - and - file remain restive over Cuomo's fiscal agenda over the last three years.

But the governor is not supported among the more activist side of the WFP, which includes chairs like Karen Scharff of Citizen Action who remain restive over his stances on taxes, charter schools and other middle - of - the - road priorities.

Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.

The tentative deal was not announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who spent his day in closed - door meetings with leaders of the Legislature who then updated their restive flocks — some of whom complained openly about being called back to the Capitol simply to spin their wheels.

De Blasio punched all the right buttons at all the right times — that is, just when a restive electorate was looking to throw off the old in favor of the new, along came Bill.

Ahead of today's (Monday) visit by the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo - led Federal Government delegation to the restive oil - rich Niger Delta, youths in the region on Sunday released a 22 - point demand, including the immediate release of detained activists and ex-militants arrested by operatives of the Nigerian military in the region.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

Republicans and Democrats alike are grappling with a restive nation upset over stagnate wages and an elusive American Dream — that's according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who diagnosed and dissected the wave of economic populism that's sweeping the nation.

However, that support eroded over the last seven days as Senate Democrats raised the issue of Skelos's leadership in a heated public session of the chamber and as upstate Republicans grew restive with him remaining in charge.

Restive upstate advocates who supported Syracuse Sen. John DeFrancisco's bid for majority leader where disappointed to see another downstate member ascend to the majority leader post in a chamber that is the last lever of power controlled statewide by Republicans.

The International Maritime Bureau said Thursday that Pirates have kidnapped 10 sailors from a merchant ship off the coast of southern Nigeria in the latest attack in the restive region.

While some labor leaders are facing a backlash from a restive rank - and - file, Mario Cilento has been re-elected to a full - four year term as president of the New York State AFL - CIO.

A trickle of companies fleeing the restive Spanish region of Catalonia threatened to turn into a flood as a second major bank and two more firms said they would move their head offices to other parts of the country.

In the middle of the month, the Niger Delta Avengers, the main group in the restive region, claimed to have bombed three Nembe creek trunk lines.

COLONIE — Increasingly restive progressives on the New York Democratic State Committee have successfully pushed through a resolution calling for the reunification of the party's divided delegation in the State Senate.

But this is different: Labour's current convulsions have not resulted in a moderate leader trying to rein in restive backbenchers on the fringes of the party.

Paddy Ashdown has urged his restive party to prepare for the possibility of a second coalition with the Tories, saying the Conservatives have proved surprisingly good and trustworthy partners for the Liberal Democrats in government.

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.

Despite the unity calls and celebration of the first woman to lead a major party ticket, the base of the Democratic Party remains restive, something Clinton should heed.

21 killed, 91 injured as BHT attacks Maiduguri — NEMA Boko Haram terrorists on Sunday killed 21 people in the key northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a top emergency services official said, as further suicide bombings rocked the restive area on Monday.

In his need to perform a balancing act with his restive, divided, bemused party, his dependence on a seemingly disreputable Downing Street court and in his knackered, resilient, scheming determination to keep going almost as an end in itself he reminds me more of Harold Wilson.

On Wednesday, a military commander said Nigerian troops had rescued 1,880 civilians from a Boko Haram redoubt in the restive northeast over the past week and arrested hundreds of insurgents.

While roughly three dozen people rallied in support of Silver after federal corruption charges against him were announced on Thursday, the less senior members who have been stifled under the current system have grown increasingly restive.

Sure enough, the day after restive attendees at the W.F.P, convention at a hotel at Albany watched a carefully brokered video message from Cuomo, the governor began walking back the idea that he'd promised much of anything.

Most of the muted candidates outside the Commons would not command the support of Mr Cameron's restive backbenchers.

At the very moment that the Labour Party is becoming restive about what it regards as the self - imposed bit, bridle and blinkers of tax policy, Labour's tax policy for the election is likely to become even more restricted than before.

Mr Cameron, having granted the referendum in the post-election coalition talks, would have a lot of explaining to do to his restive backbenchers.

Unidentified gunmen have killed the manager of a plant owned by Nigeria's Dangote Industries Limited in Ethiopia on Wednesday after he was attacked in the restive...

The NDA, active in the restive Niger Delta since the start of the year, announced on August 19 that it was laying down its weapons and resuming talks with the government.

The fight between the Icelanders and Greenlanders took place in Sime, a community in the Tai district of Rivers State, a 25 - minute drive from Port Harcourt, the hub of Nigeria's restive oil - producing region.

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