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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mobilise.

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Examples

  • This campaign call mobilised hundreds of South Africans into the streets in opposition to war, and countless more pledged their support in their homes, or in their cars.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • This campaign call mobilised hundreds of South Africans into the streets in opposition to war, and countless more pledged their support in their homes, or in their cars.

    Address to the "Stop The War" Campaign Opinion-Makers Function 2003

  • On aid, he says Britain "mobilised" the G20 in favour of a free trade area in Africa.

    Politics live blog - Monday 15 November Andrew Sparrow 2010

  • Contacted by a reporter, he then suggested that the Tories were behind the article and said that they were "mobilised" against his investigation "in a wholly corrupt way".

    Quick! Quick!: It Was "The Conservative Party" Wot Didn't Do It 2008

  • And the term "mobilised" implies that they were sent out by others.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • And the term "mobilised" implies that they were sent out by others.

    BBC and the Taliban 2006

  • It would have been foolhardy to release the deceased as he would have "mobilised" and came back for revenge, the committee was told.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Such, e.g., is presumed to have been the case in the United States 'attack on Spain during the McKinley administration; but the more that comes to light of the intimate history of that episode, the more evident does it become that the popular war sentiment to which the administration yielded had been somewhat sedulously "mobilised" with a view to such yielding and such a breach.

    An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen 1893

  • I was the same as a member of the Labour Party in Glasgow at the time we were "mobilised" to help support the strike.

    Word Magazine - Comments 2009

  • Ordinary Afghans, only five per cent of whom want the Taliban to return to power, should be reassured and 'mobilised' to resist the insurgents.

    The Latest From www.politics.co.uk 2009

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