Sentences with phrase «birth pangs»
The phrase "birth pangs" refers to the intense pain and struggle that occurs during the process of giving birth. It is used metaphorically to describe difficult situations or challenges that come before a positive outcome or significant change. Full definition
Then head straight into the wind, because those anxieties are merely birth pangs of a larger success.
entrepreneur.com
Could we think of them as birth pangs, agonies heralding a new life?
All night long, the long birth pangs continued.
And even Paul's image of birth pangs suggests an inexorability; despite the anguish of present circumstances, the revelation of the «glorious liberty of the children of God» (Rom.
When birth pangs came a second time to Rachel, the family was in transit.
We are viewing the convulsive birth pangs of a planetary society pregnant with unprecedented promise and peril.
But he adds that to concentrate on that is to miss the central fact of our time: «The painful birth pangs — unheralded, unanticipated, and to many people unseen — of a new world society of interdependent nations.»
Things may be tough for Nigerians now, but they are like birth pangs, which begin to fade at a point.
Later, Besson illustrates Lucy's fired - up neurons with beautiful cosmic birth pangs caught by NASA telescopes.
... And with all these wars and rumors of wars... creation's birth pangs of biblical proportions from manila to rio... I couldn't agree with you more, my friend!
We are beginning to feel the birth pangs of what could be a new form of human society — global society.
In each, God's activity in the world is suggested by means of an organic metaphor: in Isaiah and the parable of the sower, the word of God is imaged as a seed; Paul speaks of the birth pangs of creation.
Are these birth pangs or are they death throes?
Of course there are also the birth pangs of the Messiah.
The end - time earthquakes in Matthew 24:7 - 8 are meant to be interpreted as «the beginning of the birth pangs.»
The campaign revealed both the death throes of an old political order and the birth pangs of a new one.
In response they are told of the birth pangs of the new age (24:8).
8 But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
Nobody knows when but the birth pangs are certainly approaching at an increasing frequency.
«I think we are in the birth pangs of a new denomination, but the birth pangs have lasted much longer than we would have liked,» said Allen, who presided over «A Consultation of Concerned Baptists» in Atlanta in 1990 that led to the forming of the Fellowship.
They are seen as the birth pangs of the Church from the broken body of the Lord.
US former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Israel's 2006 aggression against Lebanon as «the birth pangs of a new Middle East».
We see and feel here on the streets of North Queens, the rumblings and birth pangs of a new Renaissance of common sense pro-New York values.
Apparently, Brown described the current suffering as the birth pangs of the new global order.
Were it not for the birth pangs of a mega-continent, the evolution of animals could have stopped at its earliest stages.
Darker than even the sewers it uses as its milieu, Holland's film is unrelenting in its exploration of the limits of cruelty and the birth pangs of humanity.
Richard Schickel reappraises Preston Sturges; David Thomson flashes back to the birth pangs of Cahiers du Cinema; Daphne Merkin monitors those Bette Davis sighs; David Bianculli chats up Kurt Vonnegut on all those squashed movie projects; John Powers essays the MTV novel; Jay Cocks reviews John Boorman's jungle horror stories; and Anne Thompson has the final word on Final Cut.
We also discuss the birth pangs of Grand Theft Auto Online, we celebrate the revival of Bioshock 2, and we stage an intervention from Marvel Puzzle Quest.
Bourgeois was present during the birth pangs of modern art (she knew Marcel Duchamp personally) and has seen every avant - garde movement of the 20th century unfold.