In Australia in 1996, a mass killing of 35 people galvanized the nation's conservative prime minister to ban certain rapid-fire long guns.
I can't be alone in hoping that the testimony of these young people galvanizes a movement that can stop a plague.
These are mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers, everyday people galvanized enough by injustice in their communities -- in their country -- to do something.
Investigations discounted; people galvanized Israel and pro-Israeli groups in the United States discounted all investigations into war crimes committed during Operation Cast Lead, including the Goldstone Report, as biased against Israel.
"The way people are galvanizing shows that we're not alone and gives us hope," he said.
It was only the events in Birmingham, Ala., in early May — the police beatings, the snapping dogs, the fire hoses turned on people — that galvanized the movement.
In part, it is because terrorist bombings that killed more than 300 people last year galvanized the country behind the extermination of the Islamic radicals who are blamed for -- if not yet charged with -- the killings.
The much-anticipated "Trump effect"—the idea that the Republican front-runner Donald Trump's threats to deport eleven million people will galvanize eligible Latinos into taking American citizenship, and/or registering to vote, and/or voting at higher rates than in the past was not especially evident in Nevada.
Yes, being with like-minded people helps galvanize beliefs but we're not really changing anyone's mind.
Roosevelt was genuinely outraged at the entrenched interests that had mass-produced misery and unemployment in his country, and he channeled the legitimate anger and fear of the American people to galvanize support for his New Deal.
