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
I am aware that some naturalists lay prodigious stress upon the thousands which they can call into action by a dash of their pens.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith
They merely call into action the stock of strength which food has already implanted is the body.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
Knowing that to argue with Brian was only to call into action the slumbering fires of his fatal malady, I turned the conversation by asking him why he called his favourite dog Chance?
From Roughing It in the Bush by Moodie, Susanna
