1 Perhaps he is the man to galvanise things.

2 A dynamic performer whose voice can galvanise up-tempo songs, Brenda was known as Little Miss Dynamite.

3 It will certainly stabilise affairs but will not galvanise the nation into action.

4 Hardly the kind of sentiment to galvanise an inexperienced squad a few weeks before its departure for an eight-match tour to New Zealand.

5 He scurried back to the kitchen to galvanise the staff into action.

6 Food shortages would probably galvanise public anger into action, as would a complete collapse of the economy.

7 Nothing is better designed to galvanise a people, unify it, strengthen it.

8 Indeed, I hope that it will help galvanise forces that will usher in a new era of human liberty in our beloved motherland.

9 President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and the American public to take action to halt catastrophic climate change caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

10 Labour officials have already launched Operation Turnout in an effort to galvanise the core vote.

11 Perhaps his imagination was fuelled initially by the comradeship of a group and the creativity it could galvanise.

12 Tourism officials are less sanguine. All those doomsday predictions helped galvanise the response,[] and that has helped the Gulf coast recover.

13 "Nigeria has depended on other nations for virtually everything because of the absence of an effective science and technology policy to galvanise growth and development," he said.

14 But global leaders have shown in their response to the financial crisis that fear of catastrophe can galvanise co-ordinated and collective action.

15 But some observers are questioning whether the display of military power will simply galvanise the hardliners inside the isolated country, he says.

16 President Obama's expected visit to Oslo to receive the Nobel peace prize in the middle of the climate talks raised hopes that he would make the short journey to Copenhagen to galvanise governments.

17 It is further anticipated that the agreement will help to galvanise support for the protection of performers at international level.

18 Though these bodies were nothing more than talking shops for the elite, they did galvanise the Han gentry into action.

19 Another aim of the plan was apparently to use the media to galvanise nationalist support against Armenia and Greece.