Perhaps a defeat in the Supreme Court will lead to a newly energized public that will demand that their representatives in Congress clean up the health care system and give us universal Medicare.
The thriving new media, organized on the American model, helped to energize the public sphere.
"I held out hope that the debates might energize the public and that the closeness of the race would come together," said Tom Patterson, a government professor at Harvard University and co-director of Harvard University "Vanishing Voter" project.
N.F.L. coaches are fired for a lot of reasons: their players no longer respond to them, their behavior embarrasses the franchise, their owners want to energize the public so they will get a new stadium, they refuse to make changes, they fail to win the biggest games.
"My hope is that, when we fly successfully on Thursday, that it will energize the public," said Thompson, "and energize that middle-schooler that isn't quite sure what he wants to do, but he likes math and science.
The liberal media punditry had a field day on election night castigating Obama for his lack of a compelling story to energize the public.
What they want, many here say, is the next Junichiro Koizumi, who energized the public between 2001 and 2006 with his calls for Reagan-style economic deregulation and small government.
"Florida's Vouchers a Spur to 2 Schools Left Behind" (front page, March 14) implied that Gov. Jeb Bush's voucher system had energized two public schools affected by the program.
Now, and like the protests last year, the Marina surge as the anti-Dilma, as the markets' unlikely favorite, has energized the public debate about Brazil's future.
Pyeongchang has made its case by emphasizing its beautiful scenery and its ability to energize the Asian public, an estimated one billion of whom live within a short plane ride of a winter sports destination.
