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
There may have been another difficulty,—that children so young exercised only her patience, and could not call into action the higher powers, nor make her forget herself as she always wished to do.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
It is, therefore, highly desirable, and more wise, to call into action, as much as possible, the operation of superior motives.
From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society
It must be expected to do so, unless it is checked by institutions which call into action opposing interests and forces.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
