Yet Iran, vast and restive, had a way of revealing itself, even in bad times.
And the American public is still restive and seeking at least some degree of retribution.
He was one of several foreigners abducted by the Abu Sayyaf in the restive region.
But Mr Zenawi will have to win over the region's restive ethnic Somali population.
Moumtzis said the sprawling and restive Homs province has been the top place of refugee origin.
The economy is struggling, his party is behind in the polls and his MPs restive.
The trade unionists are restive about plans for chopping jobs in coal mining and steel.
Instead, the borders, like the rest of Myanmar, remain desperately poor and ever more restive.
As we slowed to negotiate a hairpin turn, the driver of a car behind us grew restive.
But then came a steep rise in food and fuel prices and people at large became restive.
His first port of call was Melilla, now a hotbed of military disenchantment over Spain's restive regions.
Turkey may be unwilling to support such a move, not least given its own restive Kurdish population.
In many restive regions of Syria, tribesmen are deployed by the Syrian military as paramilitary forces called Shabiha.
There then followed an agonising wait as the soldiers, increasingly restive and indignant, demanded to be let out.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary says the restive Gurda Saria district is the ancestral home of the Haqqani network.
With record high unemployment in the euro zone, failing austerity measures, and restive populations in southern Europe, the E.
The abduction took place Thursday in Hodeida on the Red Sea coast of the impoverished and restive Arab nation.
Everyday life is still difficult for most Haitians and there are signs that some of them are becoming restive.
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The recent operations are part of the Pakistani army's intensified drive against the Taliban in its restive tribal regions.
The Sunni-dominated country also has a restive minority in the Shia Muslims, who account for 5-10% of the population.
But by last spring some grew restive at the idea of Microsoft's owning and managing the personal data on their customers.
Many believe that they will eventually decide whether India becomes a highly iniquitous and restive society or a more inclusive, stable one.
Where the former film is agonized and sullen, the latter is mischievous and restive, daring us to be dismayed by its insolence.
Each of those people is capable, but naming one could make the others restive, and prove a field day for head hunters.
The answer from many of Turkey's restive Kurds has long been no.
The congregation at the Faith Dynamics Centre must have been getting restive.
The Egyptian military has taken over security duties from the police in the restive city of Port Said, the interior ministry has said.
The possible deployment of an intervention brigade of U.N. troops has been mentioned as a way of stabilizing the nation's restive eastern region.
For one thing, the absence of that majority helps the chancellor, a right-winger as Social Democrats go, to discipline his party's restive left.
With next year's presidential election approaching, Mr Bush will want to avoid a grilling by an increasingly restive Congress that could further dismay voters.
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