What is "mobilize"

Usage examples of "mobilize".

Every military unit in and around Hamburg was mobilized and at least 35,000 men were soon hard at work in the bombed city.

Just as glucagon mobilizes the glycogen reservoir in the liver, bringing about its breakdown to glucose, which pours into the blood, so the parathyroid hormone mobilizes the calcium stores in bone, bringing about its breakdown to calcium ions in solution, which pours into the blood.

And when those efforts begin to produce results, the innovator has to be ready to mobilize resources massively.

And as for a Bethlarii attack after all this time, the Duke would have been mobilizing the army, not pacing anxiously to and fro.

Perhaps before it is over, the outer forces will have mobilized the swarming, pullulating masses of China and India against the body of the Western Civilization.

The problem of imperial administration is thus to manage this process of integration and therefore to pacify, mobilize, and control the separated and segmented social forces.

The principalities are mobilizing, and agents of the Virga Home Guard have been seen nosing around, even here.

Once trapped in the node, the bacterium is handled by antibodies or, if that fails, by white cells mobilized for battle.

The Saudis mobilized their armed forces, began training volunteers, broke off diplomatic relations with Britain and France, banned the refueling of their ships in Saudi ports, and embargoed oil shipments to both countries.

The hydronium ions came in a sudden wave, catching the dividing cells off-guard Buffer systems were mobilized to neutralize some of the initial reactive particles, but there were too many to combat.

Though they were undoubtedly a minority in the relentlessness of their revolutionary convictions, the militants were capable, on days of crisis, of mobilizing armed crowds of tens of thousands.

Thanks to the brief warning, most of the settled systems managed to mobilize to meet the Shardies attack.

General Aguinaldo had mobilized his entire division and, with help from the army, a thorough search and surveillance operation encompassing all the territory within a hundred-kilometer radius of Mount Amethyst was mounted.

TANU strained to mobilize Tanzanians behind the Arusha principles, this homespun socialist vision evoked a spontaneous outpouring of enthusiasm from the outside.

Given the level of extreme hostility between the state and federal governments, Falkner guessed that his outfit might be ordered away from Oxford to remove them from any federal efforts to force James Meredith into the university, and to prevent any unauthorized attempts by state officials to mobilize the Guard to support Barnett instead.