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Ms Flint said a swift contest could provide a "galvanising" effect which would boost Labour in the polls and attract new funding from supporters.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

"galvanising" prominent African athletes in the African diaspora to contribute funds.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

"galvanising" impact of the US civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

A trace of that outlook can be galvanising, but after a history of one major honour for England, collected at Wembley, gut feeling should be suppressed more than is the case even now, when top‑flight fixtures will see several millionaires take the field who are still in the mood to scowl and scrap.

St George's Park is no panacea for English football, but it's a start | Kevin McCarra 2011

It is the galvanising effect on those around him that makes Silva vital to City's prospects of prising the Premier League crown from Old Trafford and from now on, with Tottenham Hotspur to come in the league on Sunday and the second leg with Liverpool at Anfield later this month, there is no obvious room in the calender for further respite.

David Silva back from a break to freshen Manchester City's title run 2012

Keep on winning and a little galvanising arrogance seems fair enough, part of the theatrical machinery that spins itself around all career champions.

Barcelona are just as processed as the premier burger on the menu | Barney Ronay 2011

What galvanising views greet fell walkers who bypass the crags on these gable-ends.

Country diary: Border End Tony Greenbank 2010

A chapter centred on the barons' war of the 13th century weaves together several channels of thought and inquiry deftly, and ends with a lovely, galvanising confluence: the Hastings train passing over the compacted bones of the men who fought at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, set in chalk downs built from the slow accumulation of the plates and shells of tiny marine animals.

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review 2011

"The ladies who lunch" was coined as the sung title of a song of galvanising self-disgust written for Elaine Stritch's uber-sardonic Joanne in Company.

Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim – review David Benedict 2010

But instead of galvanising the fight against harpoon whaling in the Southern Ocean, the aftermath of the attack has brought a bitter war pitting conservationist against conservationist.

Conservationists row over ship hit by Japanese whaling vessel Robert Booth 2010