It is the shock of recognition we get from beholding the early stirrings of a recognizably modern world.

As global manufacturers seek new places to plant their flags, India is seeing early stirrings of an industrial renaissance.

From the earliest stirrings of his powers, he had been drilled in keeping his innermost secrets.

He was born into a wealthy family of cotton exporters, but displayed early stirrings of the social consciousness that would later land him in political exile.

She came to the United States with her family in 1983, when Poland's Communist government began issuing visas during the early stirrings of Solidarity.

Steff felt the earliest stirrings of relief.

The primitive streak, which appears 14 days after conception, marks the first appearance of the nervous system and the earliest possible stirrings of consciousness.

Both the havurah experiment and B'nai Or came to be seen as the early stirrings of the Jewish Renewal movement.

"Americans want to be surprised again," said Mr. Stern, who noted that the early stirrings of "gourmet ism" stemmed from a similar yearning in the 1950's.

More than a decade before the earliest stirrings of the civil-rights movement, the only way to conceive this fight was from within.