Meanings of galvanise public in English

Global warming is a theft of the future from the children of today: anger and emotion must galvanise public concern.

Fearing that Make Poverty History, a global coalition of development agencies, was failing to galvanise public opinion, he said he embarked on a publicity drive.

In the same way, cronyism has long been associated with Irish political culture but it took the appointment of Hugh O'Flaherty to galvanise public reaction.

It galvanised public opinion against state-sanctioned death squads during the last years of white minority rule.

The rape has galvanised public opinion in the city, and there has been widespread support for the gardaí in their search for the perpetrator.