Most telling of all are the stirrings of disquiet in America, Israel's most steadfast ally.
Even at this time of self-doubt and amid stirrings of reform, the old prejudices remain strong.
That, as strategists will readily recognise, is pinning rather a lot upon small stirrings.
It's early days yet, but one hopes these are the first stirrings of change.
Indeed, the market has become so bland that there are now the stirrings of differentiation.
Still, French security officials expect more attacks, given the violent stirrings of al-Qaeda in the Maghreb.
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The early stirrings of the 2000 election campaign explain why this row has been particularly noisy.
None of this used to matter much until the stirrings of political reform in Myanmar.
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Requested to do so by King John, the turnaround was deeply unpopular, and encouraged stirrings of revolt amongst the nobility.
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This last detail kept irking me, interrupting the romantic stirrings I felt as we talked the night away.
But even amid so much tragedy, we saw stirrings of a brighter day.
Mr Henkel is not much heartened by these stirrings of change and recovery.
In the post-war independence stirrings in Africa, Dr Banda played an ambivalent role.
The stirrings of modern finance sprouted in the Dutch Republic where stocks and other complex capital formations afforded widespread affluence.
And, since then, there have been political stirrings that allowed for hope that the violence would at least be diminished.
Against a background of a faltering economy and stockmarket, there have been odd stirrings among a shunned group of shares.
Even though distant branches often have no money to dispense, the bank's removal would destroy any stirrings of a money economy.
This week, an Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported stirrings of criticism within the defence establishment over the excessiveness of some of Israel's reprisals.
So now we're seeing the first stirrings of story as marketing tool.
The first stirrings of Obama's momentum were visible before the race began, but no campaign could have predicted his rapid, seemingly unstoppable rise.
After the first stirrings of war, Washington was the only one to show up to the Continental Congress in May 1775 in military uniform.
Thanks to free markets, common laborers can access more comfort, superior sanitation and even entertainment than nobles experienced before the stirrings of modern industry.
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Until this month, many thought the ECB had to be firm, because outlying euro economies like those of Ireland and Portugal have stirrings of inflation.
The first stirrings of this exhibition began with another death, in 2009 that of the revered RISD painting professor, artist and self-proclaimed "professional dandy, " Richard Merkin.
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The excuses were unconvincing, but the stirrings of action were encouraging.
Home and work, separated since the first stirrings of the Industrial Revolution, have been growing back together again: BlackBerry on the nightstand, toaster in the photocopy room.
It is hard to detect any stirrings of the ominous charisma Matsumoto Chizuo wielded to keep in thrall thousands of followers, a man his devotees call Rev.
"We have seen the stirrings of reform from Morocco and Algeria to Jordan and the Gulf States, " Bush told the World Economic Forum on the Middle East.
Yet there are more than stirrings of a middle class.
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