birth-throes

He was swiftly mastered by the concept or sensation in him that struggled in birth-throes to receive expression and form, and then he forgot himself and where he was, and the old words — the tools of speech he knew — slipped out.

Chapter 2 2010

We are in the birth-throes of a global move beyond "capitalism", beyond "communism", beyond the fatalism of understandings based on ignorance, superstition and divisive belief systems (theories, ideologies).

Stephen C. Rose: Our Crisis Is Not Economic -- Part Two 2008

He has seen the death of old Europe and the birth-throes of the new.

Westward Ho! 2007

In the half-light it seemed a world struggling in the birth-throes.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

This crisis still continues and has been recently accentuated by the birth-throes of nationalities.

The Unity of Civilization Various

Europe lay weltering and tossing in seemingly aimless agitation, yet in real birth-throes; and the issue was momentous and memorable, namely: The People.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Truly a struggle which was the birth-throes of national sentiment and the recognition that the tie between the governed and the governing must be an organic one, a tie of blood from within, not a force from without -- in one word, the recognition of the great principle of national freedom which, when the nation is sufficiently developed and self-disciplined to be fit for it, is the great mother of progress.

The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins

They will not fail to come to the rescue of those who with joyous confidence will endure to the very end such vicissitudes as this New Day of God, now in its birth-throes, must needs suffer and surmount.

Unfolding Destiny 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

They will not fail to come to the rescue of those who with joyous confidence will endure to the very end such vicissitudes as this New Day of God, now in its birth-throes, must needs suffer and surmount.

Bahá’í Administration 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

For days I went about with agonies of feeling, yet utterly at sea how to fathom and voice those feelings – birth-throes of infinite worlds, and yet dumb.

Hungry Hearts 1920