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Throughout corporate America, male managers are awaking to the reality that women are rising all around them�challenging them, changing their companies and generally shaking things up.

From Time Magazine Archive

The music of the morn has already been heard, and nations are awaking and rushing to crowd around the altar as worshippers at the shrine of learning.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace

The tremulous morning is breaking Against the white waste of the sky, And hundreds of birds are awaking In tamarisk bushes hard by.

From India's Love Lyrics by Hope, Laurence

"Now," said the steersman, "since you are awaking out of your faint you'll be telling us where you come from, because we want to send you home again."

From The Untilled Field by Moore, George (George Augustus)

The people are 'all right' in this struggle: but they are awaking very rapidly to the fact that those in power must be honest or able.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various