Synonym: agitation, commotion, disquiet, disturbance, excitement, stir, tumult, turmoil. Antonym: rest. Similar words: unrelentingly, rest, wrest, forest, rest on, arrest, for the rest, restore. Meaning: [‚ʌn'rest] n. 1. a state of agitation or turbulent change or development 2. a feeling of restless agitation.
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151. But for his weakness and vacillation, peasant unrest and working-class militancy could have been kept in check by efficient and unwavering repression.
152. This paper underlines the importance of maintaining a functional health care system even during times of political change and unrest.
153. The auguries for such reforms are not good, and further urban unrest remains in prospect.
154. Shortages in food have added to the growing unrest in the capitol.
155. There was increased military representation, reflecting the leadership's concern that economic reforms might lead to civil unrest.
156. Meanwhile it was crucial to prevent popular unrest from spilling over into a major social and political crisis.
157. Four days of unrest and anti-government riots left at least three people dead.
158. Calcutta was then beset with unrest, and Hoppy was kept busy on internal security.
159. Urban violence and civil unrest were mushrooming like small bombs threatening to blow up the machine from within.
160. Meanwhile 1985 ended with unrest among students from the Uighur ethnic minority.
161. In particular many pointed to growing social unrest[sentencedict.com], crime and unemployment caused in part by the government's structural adjustment policies.
162. The army has been used to subdue unrest in the country's capital.
163. So long as we're mainly dependent upon oil, the possibility of high prices and ensuing civil unrest will always exist.
164. But he insisted that organized religion needed to meet the challenge of social unrest and moral decay.
165. Police have arrested 80 people during the unrest in the Central Kalimantan province.
166. The moves towards democratization had been precipitated by widespread unrest, focusing particularly on economic grievances.
167. The labour unrest and factory takeovers of 1968, for instance, evinced echoes of earlier syndicalist strategies.
168. There is a certain amount of evidence to suggest that local Tory leaders played a part in inciting the unrest.
169. Militant prisoners held 24 guards hostage on Friday, as jail unrest spread throughout the country.
170. In their existing forms, reforms looked likely to lead to social unrest and further disturbances.
171. In the peculiar circumstances of the 1930s vague feelings of unrest with the Party crystallized into something more concrete.
172. There is no opinion poll mechanism for measuring the scale of social unrest.
173. Several days of unrest followed which spread across the country and involved thousands of students.
174. The resultant social unrest was highlighted by episodes of looting of supermarkets.
175. She had been tortured with electric shocks - as had every teenager I met who had been detained during the township unrest.
176. The catalyst for the unrest was the death of Kang Kyong Dae on April 26.
177. Conversely,(Sentencedict.com ) throughout this period Government Ministers strenuously denied that unemployment and social deprivation were significant causes of urban unrest.
178. But there was also unrest on other occasions, as in the summer months of 1715 and 1716.
179. The wave of labour unrest coincided with falling share prices and increasing demonstrations by students in Seoul and other cities.
180. The Foreign Office is advising people not to travel to the area, because of civil unrest.
More similar words: unrelentingly, rest, wrest, forest, rest on, arrest, for the rest, restore, interest, restrict, interested, restitution, interesting, restoration, prestigious, restriction, lose interest, overestimate, extraterrestrial, prestidigitation, sun rose, unravel, genre, unrivaled, in return, in regard to, in return for, in relation to, nest, best.