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

Their military strength may be ascertained by a comparison of their courage, their arts and riches, and their obedience to a supreme head, who might call into action all the energies of the state.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

To do this, he only needed to call into action his tools on the street and in the management.

From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)

"They who make me wish to appear the most amiable and good in their eyes, must possess in a degree," she would exclaim, "the graces and virtues they call into action."

From Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Wollstonecraft, Mary