Biko saw the struggle to restore African consciousness as having two stages, "Psychological liberation" and "Physical liberation".

When he has breathed in enough air to restore full consciousness, he's aware of sharp pains in his knees, and it's clear from the sounds that the others are making that they are suffering the same way.

Frankenstein, desperate to restore active consciousness to his creation, comes up with the idea of obtaining the services of Zoltan, the hypnotist, to reanimate the creature's mind.

It restored national consciousness and became a key factor in the liberation struggle, resulting in the 1876 April Uprising.

The aim of this global movement of black thinkers was to restore black consciousness and African consciousness, which they felt had been suppressed under colonialism.

Research has shown that pet therapy can decrease dangerously high blood pressure and pulse rates for some patients, she added, while for those in a coma, stroking an animal can have the opposite effect, raising blood pressure and pulse rate and helping to restore consciousness.

Northway was killed and Bakewell's right arm was so badly damaged that, despite considerable efforts at rehabilitating this arm through extremely specialised treatment (involving electric shocks designed to restore consciousness) during 1937 and 1938, he was never able to play cricket again, although hopes for his recovery existed as late as 1939.

Decker had taken advantage of Tom's story to 'rest his eyes,' but now gave his head a shake and forced down some coffee to try to restore consciousness.

Previous attempts at deep brain stimulation - Terri Schiavo being one of the patients - failed to restore consciousness.