galvanize

I think people felt that his presidency was too bureaucratic or too technocratic so that he wasn’t really taking advantage of the possibility of galvanizing a public.

The book is a manifesto—a single-handed attempt to galvanize the world to take to the streets.

Do you think the film will galvanize enough interest to re-open the search for Yaser?

The current firestorm should galvanize critics of education reform, but not in the way they think.

But in this bitter race, the saga surely helped Schweikert galvanize his base, which will be critical to winning the primary.

So I would not doubt that yesterday's decision will galvanize conservative voters.

Love is the only impulse which could galvanize him into life.

We shall see further on what persistent but abortive efforts were made in Congress once more to galvanize it into life.

Of what use then, to try to galvanize the dead past into the semblance of vitality?

Teachers kill the natural interest, and then try to galvanize its dead body into temporary activity.

To sap the will, to galvanize the mind as from a German electric battery, palsied resistance to aggressive Germania.