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 is necessary to call into action, as much as possible, every remaining power and principle of the mind, and to remember, that, "in the wreck of the intellect, the affections very frequently survive."

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

The principle itself seems to me to be capable of being so adapted as to promote internal peace and external security, and to call into action a genuine, enduring, and heroic patriotism.

From Canada and the States by Watkin, E. W. (Edward William)

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