Sentence examples for were galvanised to from inspiring English sources

One former minister, Peter Kilfoyle, says that voters who were galvanised to vote the Tories out have not yet been galvanised to keep Labour in.

When the Bavarians revealed that Guardiola would take over from Heynckes, in January 2013, players and the incumbent coach were galvanised to deliver the treble five months later.

In fact, because of Barbauld, Sarah Trimmer and Hannah More were galvanised to write for poor children and to organise a large-scale Sunday School movement.

If so, the coalition would surely have unravelled further rather than been galvanised to vote for action in the Security Council.

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Over the past two years in the US, concerned citizens have been galvanised to march, rally, campaign and get arrested to block the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline – a project to pump a reported 830,000 tonnes of one of the world's dirtiest fossil fuels from Canada to Texas.

"The result was unacceptable and the players, coaches, support staff and NSP are smarting from those performances and are galvanised to ensure that we play tough, competitive cricket throughout the Ashes".

Objecting to this overtly religious symbol at the seat of government, secularists and atheists were galvanised into action, staging a rally to call for the removal of the cross.

School groups were galvanised into action and, after simultaneous strikes at three schools and convincing indicative strike ballots at others, many have been kept in the maintained sector.

It concentrates the story in one place during one month, a pivotal moment of King's career, when liberal northern whites finally saw, and were galvanised into action by, the sheer crudity and brutality of the white establishment in the south – embodied here by Selma sheriff Jim Clark and Alabama governor George Wallace.

The home fans were buoyant, the Foxes were galvanised, and United were rocking.