Sea change (transformation)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that since the Arab League backed a no-fly zone over Libya there has been a “sea change” in international opinion toward favoring the action.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-16/clinton-says-arab-l...

"We are moving as rapidly as we can in New York to see whether we can get additional authorization for the international community to look at a broad range of actions, not just a no-fly zone but other actions as well," Clinton told reporters in Cairo.

http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFN161552872011031...

c.f. bahrain, yemen, shia/iranian actions and oil control, french, italians