The phrase "activate by" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when specifying a method or condition under which something should be activated or triggered.
Example: "The system will activate by pressing the red button located on the control panel."
Alternatives: "triggered by" or "initiated by".
The desk also contains a setting called "active mode," which you can activate by hitting a button on the front of the desk, which will put it into "Whisperbreath" mode — meaning that the desk prompts you to move after you've been sitting for too long with a gentle, one-inch rising and falling motion.
Choose "more activation options" and then choose "activate by phone".
The sigK gene is first expressed as an inactive pro-σk factor, and then cleaved to activate by a membrane-localized protease, SpoIVFB, whose activity is induced by SpoIVB, the signaling protein produced in the forespore [ 57, 58].
Each dot corresponds to an audio sample, which you activate by hitting a button with your thumb.
He has hidden a bomb in an air vent, which he will activate by cell phone, just as another train is passing from the opposite direction.
Perry Hoberman's "Cathartic User Interface" presents a giant panel of computer keyboards that viewers activate by throwing balls whose random hits produce irritating messages: System Failure.
PPARγ activity is strongly activated by 12∶0 and 18∶2 and weakly activated by 18∶1 and 16∶0 [16∶0
In addition to Agam\Orco+Agam\Or65 (activated by eugenol), we tested Agam\Orco+Agam\Or27 (activated by L-fenchone), Agam\Orco+Agam\Or28 (activated acetophenone), Agam\Orco+Agam\Or31 (activated by geranyl acetate), Agam\Orco+Agam\Or39 (activated by 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one) and Agam\Orco+Agam\Or48 (activated by 2-nonanone).
The brake is activated by backpedaling.
They are activated by your attention.
Earthlink's software, however, must be activated by users.
