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• n  the act of mobilizing for a common purpose
  the bell was a signal for the rallying of the whole neighborhood
• n  the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort
  he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack
• v  gather
• v  call to arms; of military personnel
• v  gather or bring together
• v  return to a former condition
• v  harass with persistent criticism or carping
• s  rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort
  a rallying cry

• A disgraced starlet is emerging as an unlikely rallying point for South Korean feminists.
• The effervescent Brown undergrad provides both motivation and inspiration for team USA, rallying spirits during the tension-filled team meets, as she did at last year's World .
• She prefers to remain behind the throne, walking with the peasantry, rallying the people but leaving power in the hands of her gray-haired viziers.

• rally
• beat up
• drum up
• call up
• mobilize
• mobilise
• muster
• summon
• come up
• muster up
• rebound
• tease
• razz
• rag
• cod
• tantalize
• tantalise
• bait
• taunt
• twit
• ride

• demobilize

News & Articles

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• What Rally? Stocks Skid in Afternoon Trade
  After rallying early in the day, the markets slid far into negative territory in afternoon action as malaise set in across Wall Street.
  June 12, 2013 - FOX Business
• Mississippi Mayors Kick off the First-Ever Let’s Play Challenge
  Mayors of 27 cities and towns across Mississippi are rallying their residents to pledge to play for a chance to win a new playground for their community through the Mississippi Mayors’ Let’s Play Challenge.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Egyptian police accused of destroying security papers acquitted
  CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court on Wednesday acquitted all police officers and officials accused of destroying documents of the internal security agency whose brutality was a rallying point for the revolt that swept Hosni Mubarak from power. The 41 acquitted include the former head of the state security apparatus, Hassan Abdel Rahman, who is also on trial with Mubarak and others for complicity ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• President Bush in Boston Globe
  ...in this Persian Gulf country, about 150 miles from the shores of Iran, Bush said Tehran threatens nations everywhere and that the United States was "rallying friends around the world to confront this danger before it is too late."
• Barack Obama in DW-World.de Türkçe
  It is a rallying cry for our enemies,Obama said. "It sets back the willingness of our allies to work with us in fighting an enemy that operates in scores of countries. By any measure, the costs of keeping it open far exceed the...
• Joe Girardi in New York Times
  Guys are just rallying behind Alex on their own,Manager Joe Girardi said. "This is what they're choosing to do, and I think it'sa wonderful thing. It's not something that we're banging on the drums saying, 'Let's have some support.' Anyone...