The word "galvanized" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning "to startle or shock someone into taking action". For example, "The CEO was galvanized to make an important change to the company's mission after hearing the news."
Mr Kan may not be the best man to articulate that, and it may take years before Japan is galvanized by such thinking.
Mrs Clinton "needs" to stay in the race to make sure her supporters are "galvanized" to vote in November.
Dozens of Frodebu provincial officials have been assassinated in recent months.But the latest violence may have galvanized outsiders to take a tougher line with those responsible.
It has attracted analysis like this, from today's New York Times: "Unusually, the runoff attracted even more voters than the general election on Nov. 3, suggesting heightened interest from voters who either saw a chance to break with tradition and change City Hall, or who were galvanized by the idea that the city's black majority might lose the mayor's office".
The defeat galvanized Roman resistance.
Assisting Heraclius in his campaigns of 622 28 with moral support and with the donation of the church treasury, Sergius functioned as regent and galvanized Byzantine resistance to enemy attacks west and east of Constantinople while the emperor was taking the field against the Persians in the outer provinces.
Wires, for example, are often hot-dip galvanized in continuous multistrand lines.
This constant military presence and the abuses to individuals and property associated with it not only galvanized colonial opposition to the British but also compelled Thomas Jefferson to specifically admonish King George III in the Declaration of Independence "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us".
Both the announcement and the policy of unconditional surrender were severely criticized after the war, when it was contended that opposition groups in Germany might have overthrown Adolf Hitler and negotiated an earlier peace if the German military had not been alarmed and galvanized by the prospect of Allied vindictiveness.
He was galvanized by a 1976 Sex Pistols concert and booked the band on his show.
The framing of the structure is made of aluminum, galvanized steel, or such woods as redwood, cedar, or cypress.
