Sentences with phrase «with restive»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

But in what was at first seen as a major victory for House Republicans was flipped after the restive tea party - influenced faction refused to go along with a two - month payroll tax holiday.

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.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business world.

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.

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The actors — many with considerable stage experience and minimal film work — deliver strong naturalistic performances, especially leading man Lamothe, whose Roque smoothly charms the ladies and sweeps us along whenever he speaks, while holding in reserve a restive intensity we glimpse in his pensive eyes.

Even if 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue becomes the one piece of real estate destined never to be festooned with the candidate's surname, the restive 2016 campaign should serve as a wake - up call.

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.

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

AN: I would have to single out each exhibition to do this question justice but let me just give an excellent example with Samuel Fosso's The Black Pope, in which the relentless catholic veneration of whiteness in contemporary visual culture is resurrected in a restive, darker protesting Samuel Fosso as the Pope.

With DC Sports Photography Academy, you learn how to capture those active and restive moments at any sport of your choice.

With DC Sports Photography Academy, you learn how to capture those active and restive moments at any sport of your choice.