Thus there was a nascent movement for independence amid the turmoil.

More importantly, there was a nascent movement toward higher standards and greater experimentation among certain American writers.

She has few links with the country's nascent feminist movement.

He claimed that the nascent democratic movement of his time was essentially slavish and weak.

Environmentalism is their main cause, and they support animal rights, a nascent movement in the 1960's.

It is a nascent movement, to be sure.

He also became involved in the nascent black nationalist movement.

She became a convinced socialist and was active in the nascent Republican movement.

He was also an early supporter of the nascent feminist movement.