call into action
Example Sentences
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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 Merriam, George Spring
Every nerve, which despair can call into action, is excited in one giant effort, and a scream of anguish seems just to have quivered on those marble lips.
From Views a-foot by Taylor, Bayard
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 Veblen, Thorstein
