birth pangs

And suddenly we found ourselves in what felt like the birth pangs of a new tradition.

Next he described more birth pangs which would lead to the coming Kingdom:

In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race.

They reckon that these rumblings are birth pangs of Russian politics.

Nursing the new democracy through its birth pangs was hard, bitter, and often disillusioning work.

"There are people trying to pretend that what is going on is nothing but the birth pangs of democracy.

The birth pangs of the Horse Sense made her sweat as hard as class.

He did not answer and got a pained scowl, which she recognized as birth pangs of creativity.

The death pangs of the old and the birth pangs of the new.

An outsider who has watched the birth pangs of democracy here can only hope Latynina is wrong.

Their grief was all but banished three days later when Ragna's birth pangs began.

Guessing that they were birth pangs, her women sent for Genji in great excitement.

"Dedication" has experienced protracted birth pangs appropriate to a work about the vicissitudes of life in the theater.

Ministering to a playwright's birth pangs is what the theater in Madison is there for.

Unlike Washington, he could not have led an army through adversity or channeled a fledgling country through birth pangs.

With the second seal the "birth pangs" will continue, bringing great destruction on "a fourth of the earth" (Rev. 6:8).

You can't go through the birth pangs of dideoxy protocols and do it all over again."

EVERY new television show goes through birth pangs.

He seemed certain that the political and economic birth pangs would end, and that Estonia would make it.

But its birth pangs in the gush of blood and the mechanical language of the automatic weaponry have set certain parameters.

Listening to the machine, she wondered if the biolab would suffer birth pangs at the decanting.

Some are battle scenes: using cavalry formations and riderless horses, they echo Vavilova's birth pangs.

She was hurrying, her soft pig noises rising now and again to a yelp when the birth pangs knifed through her.

In the history of the organic movement, the Alar episode is a watershed, marking the birth pangs of the modern organic industry.

Gone was the prologue in which Leto, Apollo's mother, mimes birth pangs atop a platform.