Most telling of all are the stirrings of disquiet in America, Israel's most steadfast ally.
In his far-sighted stance are the first stirrings of globalisation, the start of the spread of general prosperity based on free trade.
The stirrings of a new protest movement
Critics and scholars may disagree about pinpointing the first stirrings of modern art, but few deny Cezanne's pivotal role as midwife.
"Its ranks were filled with gentlemen, who felt the stirrings of martial impulse, and sought to establish a kind of College of Arms, where, as in an association of Knights Templars, they might learn the science, and, so far as peaceful exercise would teach them, the practices of war."
People are realizing we need more than incremental changes - and we're seeing the first stirrings of growth in smarter, more efficient, more responsible ways.
Summer is an exuberant season that always makes people have stirrings to do something.
Pools of sulfuric acid are indications that deep underground there are Titanic stirrings.
At this visit to Stonehenge, which was my second, I was aware of stirrings and activities in the Stonehenge energies.
New York is an amazing city; the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight; the awesome complexity of the universe; this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath- Melville; Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent.
This does not mean that ambition is at an end, that people no longer feel its stirrings and promptings, but only that, no longer openly honored, it is less openly professed.
