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Voters are restless, as the Greek election result demonstrated.
But, since the war in Iraq in 2003 and the empowerment of Shia across the region, the Saudi regime faces sizeable, restless, and politically ambitious Shia populations in neighboring Gulf countries, especially Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as in Lebanon.
Moreover, like his West African counterpart, Mugabe has presided over a decaying economy and a restless population.
Just as American presidents looked foolish when they bent US foreign policy to the dictates of American wheat farmers in the 1970’s and 1980’s, European governments that are prepared to mortgage Asian security to a restless China also command no respect.
If Omar al-Bashir retains Sudan’s presidency, as expected, he will be emboldened to step up his hostility to the country’s restless regions.
They are a restless breed, flitting round the world’s trouble spots, pen and camera poised.
Oil exports and output of automobiles – Iran’s leading manufacturing industry – had each declined by two-thirds, and restless industrial workers were demanding back pay.
In addition, there are substantial concerns about political stability in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province, and potentially even in Kuwait and Jordan – all areas with substantial Shia or other restless populations.
Imaginative solutions are needed to make Spain’s restless regions, particularly Catalonia and the Basque Country, fit comfortably within Spain.
Resentful and restless, the children are seeking opportunities elsewhere – to the detriment of the family firm.
The gray, dead silence of night (guards peer in voyeuristically through a slot in the door), the sudden, disembodied shrieks of prisoners, shrieks of distress and rage, the distant rattles and clangs of prison bolts: all make sleep impossible, or so restless as to be a torment.
Market logic confirms its appeal to restless modernization.
Why has democracy lost the allegiance of these restless spirits, and how can it recapture the hearts and minds of others who would follow suit?
There is still concern about political tensions rising in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province, and potentially even in Kuwait and Jordan, all areas with substantial Shia populations or other restless groups.
As we contemplate how the agreement will be received globally, in particular among competing politicians in the US, or among restless and worried leaders in Israel and the Sunni Arab states, a key question will be whether Iranians understand that the agreement represents a defining moment in their long history.
Even Singaporeans are beginning to get a little restless.
A little flexibility here should also be a helpful message to those getting restless in Taiwan that China really can accommodate difference.
Moreover, the north’s troubles are only part of a wider national story of surging unemployment, restless young people, endemic corruption, and a growing sense of hopelessness.
Under American leadership, it is the West that has emerged as the restless, disturbing force in international affairs.
Empires can impose order and stability for a long time; but imperialists – rather like many Americans today – become tired, and their subjects grow restless.
After a restless month in which it appeared that momentum for talks had dissipated, the announcement has renewed hope that a transformative agreement between the United States and the European Union can be reached.
No single national culture is the driving force but, instead, globalization is powered by a restless individualism drawing on a growing store of mass symbols.
Moreover, China’s already restless Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang, which borders on Afghanistan, might be dangerously affected by a Taliban takeover there, or by the country’s dismemberment.
India’s “Connect Central Asia policy,” and its efforts to build a North-South Transit Corridor, would benefit development in Central Asia, a region of major concern to China, because it abuts the restless Chinese province of Xinjiang.
If the benefits do not come quickly – and for most people they do not – they get restless.
As the crew of the now-burdened rescue vessel waits for relief, they are forced to deal with restless passengers.
The latter explains much of the repressive attitude towards free speech and independent opinion that has characterized much of Turkish public life – a straitjacket that has left little room for real negotiations with Turkey’s restless Kurds or for resolving the division of Cyprus.
I felt a prodigious, restless energy that I suspected he could not turn off if he wanted to.
Many attribute the astonishing scale of the BJP’s victory to Modi’s success in tapping into the restless (and rightful) aspirations of India’s youth after two years of a slowing economy.
Whatever the case, the region’s populations are growing restless, and the gap between rulers and ruled is widening.
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