In today's 50-50 America, Mr Bush's main priority is to galvanise his half of the electorate.
These efforts have had mixed success, but they have served to galvanise public opinion.
The threat could also galvanise the state's legislature into providing the cash needed for better transport.
Spanish flu did, however, galvanise research into vaccines, which has been going on ever since.
Mr Cameron said he hoped to "galvanise collective international action" on tax evasion at the summit in June.
And it is hardly the sort of message that is going to galvanise Labour supporters or win over floating voters.
The nostalgic sentiments for Vichy or a French Algeria that once helped galvanise the extreme right have similarly been jettisoned.
"It will galvanise international attention, " said a senior official from a western charity, speaking on condition of anonymity about the embargoed announcement.
But the most likely outcome is an economy not quite weak enough and a crisis not quite large enough to galvanise spineless politicians.
Mr Chirac has even barred Mr Barroso from campaigning in France, for fear that his ultra-liberal image might serve to galvanise the no vote.
"The health secretary coming out in favour of reigniting this debate will galvanise the caucus that exists in Parliament, cross-party, on this issue, " he said.
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But the campaign for the referendum could quickly galvanise it again.
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Part of the campaign was based on trying to galvanise public opinion, in part by using graphic photos sourced by Noah member Anonymous for Animal Rights.
Attempts by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, to float big ideas to galvanise the government are also seized upon as an early pitch for the top job.
Like Dowie, Laws believes the shock of last weekend's defeat at Turf Moor, in which they conceded four goals in the first 20 minutes, might galvanise his side.
Under pressure from Mr Obama, who argued that progress on the Palestinian issue would help galvanise an Arab coalition to confront Iran, Mr Netanyahu has since adjusted his positions.
For although the elimination campaign put research funding on the back burner, it did, with its promise of an achievable goal, galvanise efforts in the clinic and the surgery.
"It's a short-term signing, but it's something I think will help us galvanise very quickly, because there's a lot of games to be played in the Football League, " he added.
However, as can often be the case with new managers taking over at struggling football clubs, simply the introduction of a fresh face can be enough to galvanise a beaten team.
But even without that incident, Mr Arafat's show of strength would have served only to fortify the charges made in the statement, and to galvanise what had been a quiescent opposition.
Mr Cameron added that he hoped to "galvanise collective international action" on tax evasion and wanted a renewed focus on "transparency, accountability and open government" around aid given to poor countries.
There is no denying that Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev have the right to galvanise their supporters to take on the scourge of corruption, despite their spotty ideologies and kooky prescriptions for social reforms.
Indeed, a big reason why western governments have been so twitchy about Montenegro's possible secession, even under democratic procedures, is that they fear that any Balkan border changes might galvanise people trying to impose them by force.
Mr Robertson, the SNP's Westminster leader, said the campaign would first seek to galvanise backing among party members, before aiming to win support for independence among people from other parties, as well as those with no political affiliation.
But that kind of energy and certainty has helped to galvanise a community which now has a chance to put itself in the fast lane while other areas wait for government-funded schemes to come up with the goods.
Grayson sought to galvanise his squad with the addition of loanees from higher leagues, but the recruits have struggled, most recently forward Gary McSheffrey, who has failed to live up to the expectation that greeted his arrival from Birmingham in January.
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