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

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.

I am aware that some naturalists lay prodigious stress upon the thousands which they can call into action by a dash of their pens.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith

The state of society which exists in every country at an early period of its settlements, is well calculated to call into action every native mechanical genius.

From Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer by Hartley, Cecil B.