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birth pang

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birth pang
n.
1. One of the repetitive pains occurring in childbirth. Often used in the plural.
2. birth pangs Difficulty or turmoil associated with a development or transition: the birth pangs of an emergent democracy.


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Questions remain over whether his life sentence was a sign of a healthy legal system in which everyone is equal before the law, or if it marked the birth pangs of a banana republic with the courts reduced to tools in the hands of the powerful.
At that time she said that the region has to be patient because this is "the birth pangs of the new Middle East
What does it feel when it stares at the ruins of the Lebanese republics; at the awe-inspiring democracy that is searching for the lost third; at the governmental birth pangs that reveal the defeat of all the Lebanese without exception?
 
 
 
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