I felt the first spasm of fear.
The uprising was only in part triggered by the first spasm of the Arab Awakenings, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution.
It turns out that what was recently considered a brave new age of information was actually the first spasm in a long process of cultural realignment.
Consider his phrase " … what we seem to be witnessing in Iran is the first spasm of the death agony of the Islamic Republic".
The desperation of East Timor's unemployed, and the first spasms of violence it has spawned, are the sharpest signs of a swelling discontent in this physically and emotionally traumatized land.
We see here the second spasm of death for the GOP as more moderates abandon the Party in the face of this hypocrisy, leaving behind an increasingly extreme core.
The first spasm woke her out of a sound sleep.
That first spasm of mine was so debilitating I had to be hauled to the ER, where they shot liquid Ativan straight into my lower back.
The mean incubation period (from inoculation to first symptom) was 7 days in cephalic tetanus and 15 days in generalized tetanus, and the mean period of onset (from first symptom to first spasm) 10.5 days in cephalic tetanus and 14.5 days in generalized tetanus.
Around the time he published his work on the Protestant ethic, the middle-class German culture in which Weber had been nurtured experienced its first spasms of disintegration.
