But equally, drawing up lists of enemies can have a galvanising effect on the other side, too.
Might competition from China have an equally galvanising impact on the United States?
But it seems that Mr Clinton may have been spared that galvanising message.
Given a single transmission system, the currency could help achieve greater integration, galvanising the European economy into becoming fully competitive.
The air-raids have had the predictable effect of galvanising support for the resistance and steeling Lebanese resolve to tough it out.
Most of my listeners whom I meet and talk to are fantastic and galvanising and interesting and we can debate things forever.
So far it has had the desired effect in galvanising some of the world's top players who had previously failed to gel.
The Holy Father's first visit to Poland in 1979, a year after becoming Pope, was widely credited with galvanising opposition to the country's Communist government.
With Arafat and his galvanising effect gone for ever, the evolving Palestinian leadership would be less able and probably less inclined to confront Hamas head-on.
For reasons that include left-over imperial guilt as well as new anxieties about terrorism, the really galvanising arguments are sparked by this knot of issues.
Just as Ford and General Motors can push their suppliers into doing business with them through online exchanges, so can governments, thus galvanising thousands of small firms into becoming e-businesses.
In addition, the CWU said it would be galvanising support from every single MP, across all trade unions and putting forward its case to the public through adverts in all the main newspapers.
Such quiet manoeuvring inside the principlist camp suggests a fear that either they, too, could find themselves split, or that the reformists will, despite Mr Khatami's absence, actually succeed in galvanising new voters.
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That message is less politically galvanising than bank-bashing.
Far from galvanising supporters of West Bank and Golan settlers into a united opposition, this approach, its proponents claim, by presenting one sweeping choice, would unite the moderates and isolate the hard core of anti-peace ideologues.
In 2005 Beckham played a part in helping London win the right to stage the 2012 Olympics and the FA is hoping he can have a similarly galvanising effect in persuading Fifa to allow England to stage the World Cup for the first time since 1966.
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