During the Republic, the cult of local or neighborhood tutelaries sometimes became rallying points for political and social unrest.

Vacation pictures of the missing people were posted, and shots of the intact towers became rallying points.

John Paul's visits to Poland became rallying points for both the faithful and galvanized opposition to the Soviet regime.

Having lost so much support among Muslim voters, Labour ministers have a strong partisan interest in not taking potentially inflammatory actions that become rallying points against them.

They become rallying points for crusaders.

Their mosques have become rallying points for the insurgency.

Soon, Mr. Kennedy arranged forums that became rallying points for opponents Columbia had collected as it rose to prominence.

IN the first half of the 20th century, revolutionary posters became rallying points for political protests in Spain and Russia.

Yet even as he tells it, some of the most powerful moments when these sites became rallying points happened without prompting.

Mosques became rallying points because of the loudspeakers in their minarets.