Sentences with phrase «restive when»

«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.»

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.

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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.

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.