For months, the political and economic elite had looked on with growing apprehension as Britain flirted with a choice — popularly known as Brexit — that experts had warned could lead to global recession and a rip in the Western alliance.
Little wonder, perhaps, that Israelis now eye the Golan Heights, their disputed land border with Syria, with growing apprehension as Assad's forces are advancing.
That won't be welcome news for Europe's political mainstream, which has watched with growing apprehension the approach, as a recent Financial Times headline put it, of the "modern barbarians" toward the gates of Rome.
What used to work doesn't anymore, confounding executives who await the release of this summer's fairy tales with growing apprehension.
At a recent meeting of the Muslim Democratic Club in Jackson Heights, I asked local leaders what, if anything, they might want from outsiders in the midst of growing apprehension and fear associated with the incoming Trump administration.
The gun smoke over the high seas may be gone, but there is growing apprehension here that as relations with the North become more varied, they will also become more vexing.
She is currently writing a book on the topic of society's growing apprehension and fear, and will follow with a play that will be the imaginative version of similar themes.
Now, there is growing apprehension that it is India's turn to be sold out.
Iran's recent test of a new missile, with an advanced semi-solid-fuel design and a declared range of 2,000km (1,250 miles), points to continuing defiance but maybe also to a degree of growing apprehension.
Meanwhile, there is growing apprehension among some involved in the shuttle redesign.
