call into play

Example Sentences

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Will we devoutly wish for a new risk factor to call into play as we see memory slipping as our dotage arises?

From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2013

Now she would have to call into play all of her climbing ability to keep going up the treacherously steep smooth slates.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Its tenets are firmly based upon a goodly group of sciences, and their utilisation call into play a whole range of arts.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

For the present we will only observe that notwithstanding a certain similarity among the tests of this type, they do not all call into play the same mental processes.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

I thought it highly advisable to call into play the resources of his country, by opening a trade with individual European merchants.

From The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Keppel, Henry