1901 Polit. Sci. Q. 16 5 The act provided for a thoroughly organized corps of policemen,..a force of reserves stationed at the police headquarters, and mobilizing arrangements for suppressing serious tumults.

1918 Amer. Econ. Rev. 8 227 The mobilizing of energy-giving sugar in the circulation.

1931 Mod. Lang. Notes 46 136 This laborious searching of the Browning scriptures is supplemented by such a mobilizing of all the critical forces that every debatable issue is pursued to the last ditch.

1972 Statistician 21 353 The practice of communicable disease notification whose function was quite explicitly the mobilising of resources to meet defined acute needs.

1996 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 90 428/2 Hastily thrown up in the course of mobilizing.., most movement organizations fade when the wave of concern that led to their formation begins to recede.

1944 J. L. Brereton Case for Examinations i. 1 Examinations fulfil a double function—they are a mobilising force in education, and they provide a means of testing its results.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 74/2 Ketonuria was rarely seen, presumably because of the lack of pituitary fat-mobilizing factors.

1974 B. Pearce tr. S. Amin Accumulation on World Scale I. 18 The absence of any mobilizing effect of foreign investment in an underdeveloped country prevents this investment from playing that role of catalyst of the accumulation process.

1983 Endocrinol. 113 2294 Our studies show that low magnesium concentration impairs the skeletal response to calcium-mobilizing hormones in vitro.

1991 European Sociological Rev. 7 184/2 The presence of the idea of exploitation of one ethnic group (or region) by another in Yugoslav political parlance may be attributed to its strong mobilizing appeal.