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Jefferson kept his seat, reined in his restive steed, and put an equally effective rein upon his own temper.

The state news agency Xinhua said the violence erupted on Sunday afternoon in the capital of the restive Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region.

I know one couple who both work from home and like being together so much that if one pops out for a pint of milk the other gets restive.

Mass text messages were blocked, schools closed down, and a fresh curfew was imposed in the restive, Muslim-majority Kashmir valley.

Maybe so. But his security service is still cracking down on Tripoli's restive suburbs.

The East Germans, whose government had lobbied the Soviet Union to punish the restive Poles, did not.

But his security service is still cracking down on Tripoli's restive suburbs.

Violence once again broke out in the restive region this week, though not on the same scale as two years ago.

A restive Gaza, belching out rockets and swallowing up soldiers, is not a good advertisement for a repeat exercise in the West Bank.

Trials are taking place in the restive province of Wardak, south of Kabul, where a total of 1, 200 AP3 volunteers are to be deployed.

The possibility is there for a prolonged industrial slump and a restive population.

An expanding and restive middle class may tolerate Beijing's restrictive governance only as long as the money flows.

It wants to find another country with which to share the burden of securing the restive province of Uruzgan.

4A muddied Gart Kamon, an Army specialist, is part of the coalition effort to help Afghan troops take control of restive Kunar province.

His face was quite stolid, but he looked at heR with restive eyes.

Initial references were to Taiwan, but the term now also encompasses Tibet and Xinjiang, the restive western region.

The Catholic church got restive, especially when the general ignored calls for land reform from the indigenous poor.

Pakistani military says it has arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the restive Swat valley along with four other wanted "terrorists. "

Wen's soothing remarks may be taken as an indication of how seriously the leadership regards a restive population.

Sunday, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told the National People's Congress that strict action must be taken to calm a restive rural population.

On Wednesday evening, Mr. Dimon visited Bear Stearns to talk with hundreds of restive managers in the firm's second-floor auditorium.

For his ersatz loyalty to Cixi, Yuan was named the governor of Shandong province, a region rife with restive groups of anti-foreign militia.

Campaigning for the elections was marred by what analysts say were politically-motivated assassinations in restive Aceh province.

Thanks in large part to its one-child policy, China certainly has a less restive population.

As it was, I at length grew restive In the extreme under his distasteful supervision.

But with American business and the American public increasingly restive, the risks of miscalculation are growing.

the governor's supposedly voluntary exit smacks of a sop to the ANC's restive left-wing allies.

A rider should estimate his load on a donkey in order not to make it restive.

But Mr Obama still faces huge obstacles, not least from a restive Congress, where fiscally conservative Democrats might put up resistance.

He may yet deploy the air force, especially if Damascus and Aleppo, the two largest cities, became more restive than they are now.

Whenever the south became restive in subsequent decades, the ruling north would either inflict punishment or support renegades there.

THE world is fearful of Islam's rising influence in Afghanistan, Pakistan and across the newly restive Arab world.

Sunni rulers have struggled for years with a restive Shiite population.

Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers have long faced a restive Shiite population that alleges economic and political discrimination.

NATO soldiers were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in the restive southern Afghanistan.

But local residents in Pakistan's restive northwest tribal region blamed the military, saying assailants fired missiles into the house.

Syria's state-run news agency says a nuclear engineer has been assassinated in a hail of bullets in the restive central city of Homs.

Its erstwhile friend China, struggling to keep a grip on its restive regions, has expressed "concern" .

No sensible analyst of the thorny problem of Tibet would suggest independence for the restive region.

As Western officials grow restive, some money-losing SOEs are snapping up profitable competitors.

Now, they must impose law and order in the restive town of Nablus, better known for its carjackings and gang shooting sprees.

Organizers have been on heightened alert since an attack in the country's restive Muslim region in the west killed 16 policemen on Monday.

In a one-party state even the supporters of the one party are sometimes restive.

The strategy of using trains and commerce in restive ethnic regions is not new for China.

But this year there are reports that Tibetan monks, often at the forefront of anti-Chinese dissent, are becoming particularly restive.

For this reason the restive youth of China and Oman are different from those of north Africa.

By the time they turned to history, Young Griff was growing restive.

In so doing, Blair has reopened some old wounds and reignited some restive quarrels.

Chinese workers, who are already restive, may find the new year increasingly difficult.

She will meet with President Joseph Kabila in restive North Kivu province.

In the oil-rich and restive Niger Delta, delays could be damaging.

Anxious firms may be joined by other restive groups.

But it is not just politicians that are restive.

He needs to persuade a restive public that there is no magic that can provide them with risk-free energy.

But then came a steep rise in food and fuel prices and people at large became restive.

Now Aleppo seems increasingly restive.

Ethnic and religious minorities may still cause trouble too. In the south-east many of Mr Rigi's Baluchis are restive.

A restive Iran and plenty of petrodollars should ensure that the Gulf states continue to buy lots of weapons.

Mr Jonathan is Nigeria's first president from the restive Delta.

In the restive port city of Latakia and in Homs, Syria's third-biggest city, gunfire has been ringing out.

What's a restive real estate investor to do?

Tibet shares a long border with India, and when the region is restive, as it has been in recent years, China suspects Indian instigation.

Inthe increasingly restive provinces of Kunduz and Baghlan, the 1-87 will beopening a new front and waging a different kind of war.

The answer from many of Turkey's restive Kurds has long been no.

Still, access to restive regions such as Tibet and Xinjiang is limited.

Narathiwat, Thailand: Bomb squad members examine the site of a roadside bomb in the country's restive southern province