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

It must be expected to do so, unless it is checked by institutions which call into action opposing interests and forces.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

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.

Such employments call into action the muscles that support the spinal column in an erect position, and the languor or uneasiness is muscular pain.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin