call into action
Example Sentences
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Instead of Smith and Juneau troopers calling friends and neighbors to help, there’s a set procedure and process to call into action.
From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2016
Operation Counter Punch, in Central Europe, will call into action all NATO's air strength together with the national air-defense systems of Britain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
These impulses may not reach the level of consciousness, but they call into action co-ordinated mechanisms by which complicated muscular movements are effected.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
There may have been another difficulty,—that children so young exercised only her patience, and could not call into action the higher powers, nor make her forget herself as she always wished to do.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
This virtue at once combines many moral excellences, and seems to call into action some of the best qualities of our social nature.
From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Ballou, Maturin Murray
