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

Almost any game not prejudicial to health serves to call into action the moral forces we strive to cultivate.

From Vocational Guidance for Girls by Dickson, Marguerite Stockman

These impulses may not reach the level of consciousness, but they call into action co-ordinated mechanisms by which complicated muscular movements are effected.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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