The phrase "budding movement" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a new or emerging movement or trend that is starting to gain momentum. Example: The environmentalist group started as a small, budding movement, but has now grown into a nationwide organization with thousands of members.
As the TPP was being negotiated, a budding movement of Vietnamese activists used social media to spread ideas about workers' rights, transparency, accountability and even democracy.
Hotel Chocolat's union of tourism and agricultural development, specifically its devotion to all things cocoa, is part of a budding movement across the Caribbean.
In Mr. Rashid's eyes, his leader cut a deal with Pakistan's military government to save his own skin, abandoning a budding movement for the restoration of democracy and stunning many of his loyalists.
Truth was among the first of African American women to become part of the budding movement, and her speeches frankly explained how combating racism and sexism together should be part of any campaign for women's rights.
In March 1989, Mr. Polyanichko invited two front organizers, Zardusht Ali-Zadeh, an Oriental studies specialist, and Tofik Gasimov, a physicist, to his office to share his thoughts on their budding movement.
As many of South Africa's public schools have failed a post-apartheid generation of children from poor townships and rural areas, a budding movement of educators, philanthropists and desperate parents is increasingly searching for alternatives.
The bold move also encouraged a budding environmental movement.
And now there is a budding architectural movement.
Read by millions, it strongly influenced the budding environmental movement.
Its budding reform movement was floundering anyway, with campaigners fearing being dubbed American stooges.
In its elegiac lament for a disappearing river, the book chimed along with America's budding environmental movement.
