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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211. Fearing future unrest, Congress banned the interstate transport of fight films, a law that remained in force for more than a quarter-century.
212. Key uncertainties include the relationship between China and the US, the threat of internal unrest and the ever-present danger of unexpected, capricious political decisions.
213. Previous bouts of unrest have likewise suggested a worrying divorce from reality.
214. The cleric, Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, is considered a close supporter of Assad's regime and has echoed its claims that the unrest in Syria is the result of a foreign conspiracy.
215. After the recent unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang, the parade tried to emphasise ethnic unity.
216. Iran announced yesterday that members of a foreign-backed "anti-revolutionary group" responsible for fomenting unrest and armed with bomb-making materials had been arrested.
217. Given that he—an ethnic Sindhi, like most of his coterie of advisers—is especially unpopular in Punjab, this was always likely to cause unrest.
218. City have already defeated Arsenal and Chelsea as part of their unbeaten home record, but there is much still to be examined and reports of player unrest over Mancini's methods are unsettling.
219. E ? C : The crime rate is a symptom of social unrest.
220. In severe cases, the economic burden would cause conflict for resources and intensify social contradictions and unrest as we have seen in the past.
221. If Urumqi had an edge of unrest on this Monday, it was sheathed in silence.
222. Nazarbayev seemed to face no real threat of civil unrest, said Sarah Michaels, deputy director of analysis at Oxford Analytica, a global analysis and advisory form.
223. Economists warn that price controls encourage hoarding and can lead to supply shortfalls, fueling unrest.
224. They say the prime minister has theatrically played up the settlers' fury and unrest in the Likud.
225. A officer in Madagascar inspected a furniture warehouse looted during political unrest in the capital[sentencedict.com], Antananarivo.
226. Inevitably, high prices threaten unrest at best and mass starvation at worst.
227. Many in western Europe are predicting outbreaks of populist nationalism, demagoguery and social unrest.
228. Flaws in the event of such a dominance relationship is bound to cause social unrest.
229. In Inner Mongolia, a Han Chinese truck driver kills a local herdsman in a hit-and-run accident, and ethnic unrest flares for days.
230. As a result of this unrest, twenty-five Redcoat soldiers were dispatched to monitor the situation.
231. The paper's Saturday editorial says citizens must be conscious of the threat from people inside and outside the country with ulterior motives who want to seize on China's problems to incite unrest.
232. UN agencies and the World Bank pledged on Tuesday to set up a task force to tackle an unprecedented rise in global food prices that is threatening to spread social unrest.
233. Few here think the unrest will end anytime soon,(Sentencedict) and the rage of Greece's youth continues to smolder.
234. Labour unrest in the GCC's 13 million-stong migrant worker community has increased in recent years.
235. Spiraling food prices have led to hard times and unrest in a number of developing countries.
236. But there has been no sign of the continent-wide unrest that gloomsters once predicted.
237. Up to now Khartoum is in stable situation any violence and unrest.
238. But George Haley at the University of New Haven in Connecticut says labor unrest is common.
239. He is acutely conscious that this transition will bring with it the risk of social unrest.
240. For Beijing, policy mistakes on either side carry political risks. Overplay the inflation threat and growth could slow, threatening jobs and leading to social unrest.
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