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
To do this, he only needed to call into action his tools on the street and in the management.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
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
The pecuniary employments call into action chiefly the former of these two ranges of aptitudes and propensities, and act selectively to conserve them in the population.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
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