Sentence examples for as a galvanizing from inspiring English sources

But Price also said he deserved a chance to overcome his mistakes and to serve as a galvanizing example of repentance.

Hezbollah's increasingly open military intervention in Syria, against fellow Arab Muslims, is framed by its followers here in the northern Bekaa Valley less as a galvanizing mission than a regrettable necessity.

The Goodwill Games, conceived by Ted Turner in the 1980's as a galvanizing alternative to the boycott-plagued Olympics, were discontinued yesterday, having lost millions of dollars as well as political relevancy after the fall of communism.

Ruholamini, the son of an adviser to the defeated conservative presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai, has joined Neda Agha-Soltan, the young student killed the day after Khamenei's sermon, as a galvanizing symbol of resistance to the regime's brutal lurch.

Grass-roots and professional organizers alike, mindful of the 15,000 journalists expected in a town already saturated with the news media, have seized on the Republican National Convention next week as a galvanizing moment raw with emotion around 9/11, the Iraq war and the Bush administration's conduct.

No, New York City Ballet isn't what it used to be, but the Balanchine Celebration held this fall at the Kennedy Center in Washington served as a galvanizing reminder that Balanchine's legacy is alive and thriving outside the erstwhile capital of the dance world.

The threat, as much as the promise, had a galvanizing effect on Burmese aspirations for democracy, which were not at all cooled when the Army acted on its promise and opened fire on crowds of protesters.

Throughout, Daltrey and Townshend, and Streisand, seated beside them, nodded and shook their heads, as if listening to a galvanizing preacher.

Throughout, [Roger ] Daltreyand [Pete] Townshend, and [Barbra] Streisand, seated beside them, nodded and shook their heads, as if listening to a galvanizing preacher.

And Spaniards born after democracy was restored in the late 1970s tended to think of it more as a recondite artifact than a galvanizing symbol.

Indeed, the bombing runs on Vieques have become a rallying cry for Hispanics across the nation, drawing celebrities like Edward James Olmos, the actor, as well as galvanizing Puerto Ricans who characterize the bombings as an example of American arrogance.