The trial included graphic testimony that galvanized debate over abortion far beyond the downtown Philadelphia courthouse.
The Oscar nomination for Obaid-Chinoy's film has again galvanized debate about honor killings, putting pressure on the Pakistani government to close the legal technicalities that allow the killings to continue unpunished.
Worries about the possible long-term effects of the deficit have galvanized political debate in recent days, culminating in President Obama's decision to create a bipartisan commission to tame the nation's debt.
Searing images of the Syrian toddler's drowned body, washed ashore after the raft carrying his refugee family capsized off the Turkish coast, pricked consciences worldwide and galvanized passionate debate over the international response to the enormous tide of migrants arriving on Europe's shores.
Recent public health breastfeeding promotion efforts have galvanized media debates about breastfeeding in wealthy, Euro-American settings.
The plan has galvanized a national debate over runaway obesity rates, and New Yorkers who agree with the ban pointed to its potential health benefits, particularly in combating obesity.
The suburbs have crossed the borders of Dutchess County, and many local residents as well as those in neighboring counties have been galvanized into intense debate, sometimes even fistfights, over their futures.
In a case that galvanized a bitter debate about police brutality in New York City, a Federal judge in Manhattan sentenced a former police officer, Francis X . Livoti to seven and a half years in prison yesterday for violating the Federal civil rights of Anthony Baez, who died after a 1994 confrontation with police officers outside his family's home in the Bronx.
It all sets the stage for a combustible coming election year, in which questions about the viability of single payer will be posed to gubernatorial candidates, incumbent lawmakers and new entrants to politics galvanized by the healthcare debate.
The incident comes amid a national debate about racial bias that has been galvanized after the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia.
