Sentences with word «restive»

His rhetoric today was starkly different from what he told the crowd of restive Working Families members on Saturday, when he referred to Senate Republicans as «ultracons.»

The push to curtail or end START - UP has been telegraphed by Republicans and Flanagan over the last several months as they have grown increasingly restive over the effectiveness of the program.

The party has not ruled out giving its line to another candidate as its members remain restive over Cuomo's fiscal policies.

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.

The earlier bill, worked out in negotiations with restive Senate Republicans, defined enemy combatants as those who have «engaged in hostilities,» but the latest draft legislation expands the definition to include those who have «supported hostilities.»

The roughly 352,000 - strong ANSF will assume combat responsibility of three - forths of Afghanistan by the end of this year and full combat responsibility by the middle of next year, including the traditional Taliban strongholds of Helmand and Kandahar and restive regions to the east.

Advocates remain restive over a March agreement with the Legislature that created public financing for only the state comptroller's race, which Republican comptroller candidate Bob Antonacci is participating in.

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This is the challenge Commissioner Elia faces as she considers how to mount a defense of New York state policy to an increasingly restive population.

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.

But despite a hastily arranged proclamation of solidarity and the immediate lack of a clear successor, a growing number of Democrats were growing restive about Silver's continued leadership.

«Stockholders,» says one management man in off - the - record tones, «are inclined to get restive when they see half a million or so being spent on what seems to them to be mostly horseshoes and bowling.»

These procedures do not have to be done in one session; if your cat gets restive, stop and continue later.

Newsday: «When you put it all together — tenuous economic times, an election year and an increasingly restive State Legislature — it's hard to know how realistic Cuomo's $ 168 billion spending plan is.»

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.

To borrow another of Mr Blair's pet phrases, a few eye - catching initiatives will be unveiled to an increasingly restive audience.

She won a seat in parliament, only to be voted out after one term by restive Tehranis disappointed that she refused to distance herself from her father, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the conservative who was Iran's president from 1989 to» 97.

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.

Parents will grow more restive as they fail to secure a place for their children in a decent school.

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.

If we had frequent, comfortable, restive transit people would flock to it.

A British Prime Minster is required to quell a spot of bother on the continent while, on the home front, restive back - benchers cause trouble.

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.

Sure there were restive shareholders who want CEO Brent Saunders to break up the company, but he wants to be sure that a break - up would be the right thing to do.

These traditional or «inherited model» congregations are often faced with an aging population of pre-boomers and an increasingly restive junior contingent.

The snow stuns the sky into quietonly the lake understands, restive beyond the gray stone breakwater.Across the street, my neighbor knowsa green hope weaves a wooden trellisover a fresh - powdered walk, his jacket, a plaid patch on the shed doorknob.His brown daughter sprouts bud breastsunder her....

A chronically restive Germany entered the twentieth century dominated by an imperial bureaucracy under the Kaisers.

The New Testament church could not escape the suspicion that it was a subversive movement, and its appeal was clearly to the socially restive poor.

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.

A decision to maintain a moratorium pending yet further review, less so — although an increasingly restive anti-fracking movement is unlikely to let any review process pass quietly.

Opposition is also expected from the state's reliably restive tribal casino operators, and the Assembly members in whose districts the tribes» gaming operations reside.

In 2011, when a group of moderate Democrats announced they were leaving their party's conference in the state Senate to form an alliance with the Republicans, Cuomo signaled his tacit approval, in part because it meant that his veto pen wasn't the only thing keeping restive downstate liberals from having the run of the state.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In an attempt to reassure restive MPs, Cameron, who is often accused of ignoring all but his most trusted inner circle of advisers and MP friends, is convening a series of «sandwich lunch» meetings with groups of 20 or so backbenchers in the coming weeks, to gauge opinions and convince them that the answer to Ukip will not lie in a hasty lurch to the right.

Getting enough restive and restorative sleep.

What is implied elsewhere is confronted aggressively in the terrifically restive FX drama Rescue Me.

As they prepare to compete along with a Republican candidate in the June primary, however, Tuck and Torlakson's backgrounds and perspectives on a handful of hot - button issues are making the nonpartisan race a referendum on whether change is coming quickly enough in a state where the traditional might of labor unions is being challenged by increasingly restive education reformers.

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.

With it all, and from the very first, Dine's excursions into the day's avant - garde found him curiously restive.

But if Mary Heilmann's restive painting of a blood - red HVAC vent constitutes feminist art — and I believe it does, at least with a small «f» — then so do MacIver's doleful painting of a fire escape in sooty red light and her forlorn brown Crocus.

There is lightness to touch and palate that makes her work feel restive, meditative, and serene.

From the 1933 canvas «Grazioso,» with its clear debt to both Picasso and Miró, through «Dance» from 1962, which could fit neatly onto the wall of a Lower East Side gallery today, Ferren's restive approach led him on many occasions to examine styles for a short period only.