Photographers were galvanized into a crouching semicircle, moving rapidly backward as their subjects advanced.
Particularly ominous is the prospect that previously ragtag militant groups, which often fought among themselves for influence and access to oil theft, have been galvanized into cooperating.
Her sister, Inge, ten years her junior and unmarried, is driving up from Ventura to take her shopping at the mall for the pre-Christmas sales, and she is galvanized into action.
Its central character is Nancy, an overweight 55-year-old woman whose lifelong battle with timidity and depression has been galvanized into crisis by the loss of her secretarial job.
Their victims are forging military links with Sindhi nationalist groups that have been galvanized into action by the death of Benazir Bhutto, a Sindhi hero as was her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
The jump to broadcast television is opposed by people who are upset at what they say is the widening exposure of liquor commercials to children, and they were galvanized into action.
"My big question is this: Why must we wait for a system to fail before we are galvanized into action?" Bea said.
As the Obama administration joined the chorus of those questioning the poll's credibility and the Kremlin deemed the elections fair, people who had never before been active in pro-democracy protests were galvanized into action.
They were galvanized into a feeling of power, of commitment, of mission that seems to have changed many of them and stayed with them as they went on to do a thousand different things that mattered, as they helped build the antiauthoritarian revolution that has been slowly unfolding, here and elsewhere, over the last half century or so.
They needed to be galvanized.
