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
Not so without; there was a scene enacting there that would chill the heart of woman, and call into action all the sterner powers of the other sex.
From The Heart's Secret; Or, the Fortunes of a Soldier: a Story of Love and the Low Latitudes. by Ballou, Maturin Murray
The result of this treatment is to call into action several buds at the upper part of the stock.
From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.
Knowing that to argue with Brian was only to call into action the slumbering fires of his fatal malady, I turned the conversation by asking him why he called his favourite dog Chance?
From Roughing It in the Bush by Moodie, Susanna
