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
Retired from the Presidency, his successor called him, not in vain, to head the army which the threatened French war would call into action.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
Not so without; there was a scene enacting there that would chill the heart of woman, and call into action all the sterner powers of the other sex.
From The Heart's Secret; Or, the Fortunes of a Soldier: a Story of Love and the Low Latitudes. by Maturin Murray Ballou
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 Calvin Cutter
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