call into action

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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

The President calmly, clearly, sadly reviewed the facts which compelled him to call into action the war powers of the Government, and constrained him, as the Chief Magistrate, "to accept war."

From Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln by Arnold, Isacc Newton

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

It is, therefore, highly desirable, and more wise, to call into action, as much as possible, the operation of superior motives.

From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society