How To Use Crusade In A Sentence
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It brings prestige to Scotland on a shoestring, and a great deal is done by people for whom it's a crusade, not a job.
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Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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They had already experienced discrimination in the army while fighting the "crusade for freedom".
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee.
From October to Brest-Litovsk
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Well, I am afraid the crusade was rather a fizzer.
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Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse.
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Will it remain perverted forever by what it†™ s become, or will the truth ring free and clear and the legend of the Crusader be born anew?
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The princes of the West assumed the cross in order to appropriate to their own use the tithes which, for the defrayal of crusade expenses, they had levied upon the property of the clergy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The Empire Crusade was designed to cause the maximum trouble for the Conservative leadership.
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He harnessed his new-found zeal to a crusade against vice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Campus Crusade for Christ (known as "cru" on college campuses) has been providing weekly "God's Basic Training" programs to the U.S.
Blackwater Founder's Visions of Christian Supremacy in Iraq
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At sea the crusaders maintained a naval blockade, breached by daring blockade-runners or professional swimmers who delivered messages to the besieged garrison.
Times, Sunday Times
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St. Jacques, a heroic fighter involved in the Crusades, was the exact double of Ogoun Ferraille, a powerful warrior spirit.
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In addition the crusaders used light cavalry and horse archers in large numbers to harass the enemy, to scout, and to supplement the knights.
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The Portuguese monarch praises in round terms the edifying zeal of the primate, but wisely confined himself to his own crusades in India, which were likely to make better returns, at least in this world, than those to Palestine.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
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Two of the wounded crusaders abandoned the tower, but the third one defended himself all day so cleverly from the Turkish attacks that on that occasion he knocked down two Turks at the entrance of the walls with broken spears.
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Battle for Antioch in the First Crusade (1097-98) according to Peter Tudebode
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In 2004, the Republicans will be a prowar party led by a would-be crusader.
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That followed public outrage at his soft justice crusade last year.
The Sun
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His accomplishments belong outdoors in military feats as vassal of the King and crusader for God.
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Crusaders fifth Dubliner John Cleary has gone into junior management down south.
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Amongst the most famous of these crusader orders were the Order of the Knights Templar.
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Engelbart was embarking on a crusade to augment human capabilities by applying new technologies and developing ways to interact with that technology.
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It inspired her to write, and it's been a personal crusade since.
Times, Sunday Times
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Playboy, which has long lived in some of television's seediest precincts, is on a crusade to win over women with more female-friendly shows.
Playboy TV's New Proposition: Bring in Women
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Her commitment to a great cause degenerated from a crusade into an obsession.
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Sabbatarianism, with the Lord's Day Alliance, a Canadian invention, in the van; then the gradual tightening of the laws against sexual irregularity, with the unenforceable New York Adultery Act as a typical product; and lastly, the general ploughing up and emotional discussion of sexual matters, with compulsory instruction in "sex hygiene" as its mildest manifestation and the mediaeval fury of the vice crusade as its worst.
A Book of Prefaces
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But over the centuries, the fate of this now legendary vessel, the so-called Holy Grail, has come to haunt stories ranging from Arthurian legend to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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When soldiers returning from the Crusades introduced wind technology to Europe in the eleventh century, the windmill helped usher in the Industrial Revolution.
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The company makes the Crusader, a self-propelled howitzer that operates like a tank.
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It devotes nearly a chapter to Walsh and his crusade, and Lance chips in a few choice words about the man too.
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Today, it is another kind of crusade, to protect the sacred places of the earth wherein dwell freedom and justice, and good faith and mercy, and humane and Christian civilization.
The Present Challenge to Canada
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This crusade is unwinnable because she is uncatchable, she is unstoppable because she is intangible.
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It was then the task of the converted to go amongst other sinners, wherever they might be found, and crusade to save souls.
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There is no escaping the fact of the Crusader's savage butchery - of Jews at home and of Muslims abroad.
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In 1204, the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople and huge amounts of artistic treasures were taken to the West in the form of plunder, to fill cathedral treasuries and decorate cities across western Europe.
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Automatons, illiterates and indigents of every shape and size, don't stop but aid this cruel crusade participate in their own demise.
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Change can only be achieved by the people in a combined effort with demonstrations, petitions, personal crusades, and newspapers being brave enough to report fraud and embezzlement, that will lead ultimately to the guilty parties being put in the "slammer" for a very long time.
Pestiside.hu
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By not taking on this issue head-on to explain why this intervention has nothing to do with the colonial past or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, neither of which asked for military intervention as Libyans have, Obama allowed Gaddafi's crude anti-imperialist and anti-crusader propaganda to stand.
Joe Lauria: "Time and Space" for Libyan Rebels
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Theoretical science has been slowly driven from the universities by the new crusaders of Postmodernism.
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Similarly, in eastern Europe and the Baltic, crusaders constructed a range of fortresses from wooden blockhouses to the great monastery castles of the military orders.
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Mr. Sembiring claims legal authority for his various crusades from sweeping antipornography legislation passed in 2008, a law that has become a powerful tool for advancing Islamic values in a religiously diverse but secular, majority Muslim state.
RIM on the Ropes
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The medical profession did not contribute to the new crusades nor was there any resurrection of the medico-moral alliance.
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Pointing this out is sometimes all it takes to launch the conservation crusade.
Times, Sunday Times
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But with the group's focus on eliminating tax breaks, such as mortgage-interest deduction, antitax crusader Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, became a frequent critic.
Senate 'Gang' Hashes Out Deficit Plan
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C. Everett Koop, the U.S. Surgeon General at the time, crusaded against smokeless tobacco and sparred with Mr. Bantle.
U.S. Tobacco's Chief Made Dipping Hip
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His crusade against the government apathy towards ex-soldiers and their families is continuing even at the age of 81.
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However, there has been little to compare to the crusades and religious wars in medieval and early-modern Europe.
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The emotional drive behind the anti-chain crusade is an understandable mistrust of big corporations allied with the knee-jerk snobbery that is never far from the surface in American cultural life.
Two—Make That Three—Cheers for the Chain Bookstores
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In two of the chapels there are some fine altar-pieces by Holbein and one of his scholars; and a very large crucifix of silver and ebony, which is kept with great care, is said to have been carried with the Crusaders to the Holy Land.
Views a-foot
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In 1204 the Crusaders and Venetians attacked Constantinople and sacked the city.
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Major Cain, in opening the exercises and introducing the speakers who were to follow, praised in highest terms the undaunted spirit of the North Carolina troops, "who like crusaders have battled in a just cause and returned covered with glory and honor".
Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina. 1917-1919
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And his servile easily bewitched audience of clodhopper crusaders will carry on as before.
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At the time of his election he had been a crusader in the Holy Land to which he had accompanied Prince Edward - the future King Edward of England.
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Although poachers attacked and killed the leader of antipoaching patrols in the region, the crusade has drawn worldwide attention and helped antelope herds to triple in size to 60,000 animals from 1998 to 2008.
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Schools across the country have joined the crusade against violence.
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They retook Jerusalem in July 1099, creating Crusader states which would last for almost two centuries and bequeathing an enduring legacy which continues to influence the Christian and Islamic worlds today.
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The left-footed Daniel Carter is a certainty at fly-half and the All Blacks will have seen how the Crusaders cleverly used MacDonald's right foot to complement Carter.
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The Crusaders also left a legacy to the Arabs, as did those other invaders who came and went.
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Because he was a king, Conrad continued to play a role in the Second Crusade, but the imperial army was annihilated and the Germans did not contribute significantly to what followed.
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This was the proclamation of the first crusade, an enterprise calculated to unite Christians in the present-day lands of France, Germany and Italy, and far beyond.
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The marchers distributed handbills to onlookers, pedestrians, commuters and motorists inviting them to the crusade at sites nearest to their homes.
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Let's take you quickly live out to the space shuttle Discovery and show you what's going on right now as the so-called caped crusaders, those are the guys in white with the cap there.
CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005
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He seems to be running a one-man crusade against cigarette smoking.
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The swarms that followed the first crusade were destroyed in Anatolia by famine, pestilence, and the Turkish arrows; and the princes only escaped with some squadrons of horse to accomplish their lamentable pilgrimage.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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At the back of the church a great stone crusader sat up on his tomb and, with much rasping of stone, thumbed his nose at the vicar.
CHARMED LIFE
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I think it's also worth mentioning the somewhat blind crusade for copyleft that Cory is on, where anything that remotely smacks of Big Corporate Copyright is slapped down.
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The "anti poverty, anti-corruption" crusades that so enamor the middle classes and the World Bank will not meet the challenge of poverty.
Walden Bello: Does Corruption Create Poverty?
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The Vatican began its crusade to defrock Father Bourgeois in November of 2008 with the threat of excommunication.
Michele Somerville: A Frock Does Not A Priest Make
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Returning Crusaders are thought to have introduced jams and jellies to Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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This cape crusader is set to stay firmly on fashion's most wanted list.
The Sun
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They panegyrize his crusade to alter, rewrite, or ignore past events to make them consistent with his current "reality".
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Before the election, the local media successfully crusaded for change in government policy that would provide free antiretroviral treatment to the poor.
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By night, he is Axle Grinder Man, a caped crusader who prowls the streets in a blue catsuit and gold boots, ‘liberating ‘clamped cars.’
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Not surprisingly, the baronial movement took on some of the characteristics of a crusade.
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Presenting Hav as a fascinating nexus of East and West, a teeming entrepôt of cross-breeding cultures, Ms. Morris describes the architecture with great relish: There are mosques from brief Arab rule during the Crusades, Russian onion-domed palaces, colonial remnants from the post-Napoleonic "Hav Britannica," and "the most cheerful of follies," a multistoried pagoda built by 15th-century Ming Dynasty traders.
Visiting a Land Beyond Fodor's Reach
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He will promise a new crusade to help thousands of offenders turn their back on crime.
The Sun
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One was East Harlem's Rep. Vito Marcantonio, a Depression-era communist in all but party card, who crusaded for the poor of all colors.
The Mecca of Black America
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He says because George Bush, the president, has declared a crusade, what he called a crusade, against Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan, Iraq, that he cannot accept these U.S. lawyers.
CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2008
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In a straight fight the crusaders usually won; in skirmishes, the Saracens often overcame their more numerous opponents.
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What goes amiss in the smoker's crusade to defend themselves is the rights of the people who don't want to be subjected to smoke.
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But when his audience is less religious, he suddenly turns into a pro-abortion crusader.
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The first Crusade took three years to reach the Holy Land.
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But it's the right that has led this bitter crusade to doubly punish criminals.
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That followed public outrage at his soft justice crusade last year.
The Sun
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Not to mention the Illiad (an intermural squabble among the Olympian Gods), the Hundred Years War (is God a Catholic or a Protestant?), the Crusades, and every clash of civilizations from the Bronze Age to the Gunpowder Age.
Rep. John Lewis Compares McCain To George Wallace
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Champion jockey Kieren Fallon continues his excellent week with yet another winner, just getting up on Happy Crusader to snatch a last-gasp victory in the nursery race.
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He crusaded for free food stamps to combat hunger and malnutrition in children.
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Innocent declared that he was prepared to lead the crusade personally.
JEM SULTAN: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe
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With his chart-filled television advertorials, Perot galvanized the nation with his crusade for fiscal responsibility.
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Another origin dates from the time of the Crusaders, who played a game of dice named after their place of encampment, the castle Hasart.
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Since this was in the nature of prophesy, the papal legate was able to insist that this showed clearly that the Church should be leading the Crusade.
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The aim of today's happiness crusade seems to be to politicise the quest for self-fulfilment.
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My review of Neil Gaiman's Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? deluxe edition hardcover is up at Tor. com.
Lou Round the Web (Lou Con Smash)
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I found Grey's silent scrutiny unsettling, too, and tried to turn the talk to home topics, but the lads didn't care for the great crusade against smoking, or the state of the Thames, or the Jews in Parliament; 8; 'they wanted the blood of Cawnpore and the thunder of Lucknow, and it was a relief when Grey sent them packing, and suggested we take our cigars on the veranda.
THE NUMBERS
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In the eyes of ordinary folk, the crusade was a holy war for the sake of war.
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In the event of the crusaders proving hostile, the Emperor hardly had the means of resistance.
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The Byzantines got in first and raised their flag, and they refused to let the Crusaders sack the city.
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But while they urged wayward men to dwell on their tearful, praying mothers, crusade leaders marginalized the women in their midst.
Christianity Today
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More significantly, these agents have become crusaders for the issue and while mobilising support among the young, and largely lumpen groups, have spearheaded a hate campaign against the religious minorities.
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Also patron of crusaders, kings, and parenthood. Feast day, August 25.
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A space of ground large enough to accommodate perhaps thirty tents according to the Crusaders 'rules of castrametation, was partly vacant --- because, in ostentation, the knight had demanded ground to the extent of his original retinue --- partly occupied by
The Talisman
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They may be more circumspect about public encouragement these days but they continue to sponsor and facilitate his freelance crusade.
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He legitimated the cultivation of lyrical tropes, as the poet used them to enrich what is otherwise a lofty epic poem on the First Crusade.
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Wars in the name of political ambitions and crusades for fanatical religious faiths are all part of man's history to this day.
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Sadly, leftists believe defending media violence makes them hip crusaders for freedom; no, it only it makes them pawns, dupes, slaves.
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The Crusade received very substantial financial backing for the organization of the march from the right-wing military and political parties.
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I mean, _I_ like to read him, and fantasize about Russia launching a crusade to liberate Constantinople from the Turks, but I doubt that most of the hipsters would enjoy reading him.
Matthew Yglesias » Against Craziness
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He tried without success to attack the Frankish strongholds while the Crusader army was pinned down in Egypt.
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He ran a relentless crusade against the poison antidote formulated by Mithridates, the King of Pontus, Asia Minor, in the first century BC.
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It was well for the success of Mac's first crusade that his hearers were gentlemen and sober, so his outburst was not received with jeers or laughter but listened to in silence, while the expression of the faces changed from one of surprise to regret and respect, for earnestness is always effective and championship of this sort seldom fails to touch hearts as yet unspoiled.
Rose in Bloom
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Therefore, the Civil War must be a religious crusade to regain the Almighty's favour.
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Sometimes, especially at National Review, the animus against braininess has overlapped with a crusade for traditional manliness - the idea being that book learning is for wimps.
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Barry Goldwater even embraced the title extremist ( "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"), George McGovern's anti-war crusade offered an unapologetically leftist platform, and Walter Mondale proudly promised in his convention speech that he would raise the nation's taxes.
Dissecting Leftism
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The second, more generous attitude is represented by Suger, the 12th-century abbot of St. Denis who served as regent for Louis VI while the king was away on a crusade.
Hidden Treasure
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Look you, my son --- this Crusade, as you call your wild enterprise, is like a large dromond parting
The Talisman
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One of the swords turned into a Christian Crusader's broad sword.
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It is a religious crusade for him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now he has called on other schools in the town to unite in a crusade against violence and drug abuse.
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The crusade against child obesity is likely to produce, not healthy outcomes, but miserable children and anxious parents and epidemics of dieting and eating disorders.
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He preached a crusade against John Asen of Bulgaria, granting extensive privileges to King Bela IV of Hungary to get him to make war on the Bulgars, but the Mongols were arriving and the Hungarians had to fight them instead.
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In the crusade to change behaviour, scientific studies that suggest there is a genetic component to weight problems can prove counterproductive.
Times, Sunday Times
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And since the late 1990s, she seems to have been pursuing a single-handed crusade to save the diva from extinction.
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The Sixth Crusade was led by Emperor Frederick II.
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It took two terms of an intelligent commander-in-chief, and another moral equivocator, former law professor Bill Clinton, for the Republicans to search again for an unequivocal moral crusader with not a whole lot going on upstairs.
James Marshall Crotty: Why Republicans Embrace Simpletons and How It Hurts America
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He strode forward haughtily, taking his steps slowly with head thrown back, and as Frank gazed at him with heart throbbing painfully and heavily under the stress of his emotion, he could not help thinking how noble and fierce a warrior the Baggara looked, with his simple white robe, and how dangerous an enemy with the curved dagger in his girdle, and long, keen, crusader-like sword hanging from a kind of baldric from his right shoulder.
In the Mahdi's Grasp
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Terry @14: I always like to remind hawks that the Arabic word for "crusade" is Jihad.
Making Light: Intelligence in, intelligence out
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At the coronation of his successor, Richard I, the same year, Chief Justiciar Glanville was present, and when that prince took the cross, Glanville joined him, contributing a large sum towards the crusade.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The happiness crusaders argue that their campaigning will help create more caring, altruistic and trustful communities.
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On these missions, the Crusaders carried little or no munitions to increase their maneuverability and airspeed in dodging the SAMs that were released.
Wallace, MIchael W.
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Pope Innocent thundered angrily in letters, specifically forbidding the Crusaders from attacking Zara.
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If the Western imperial church hadn't burned heretics and crusaded against Christians who objected to the Crusades, we'd have a lot more who aren't obsessed with the crucifixion.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: The Ideological Roots Of Christian Terrorism
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It's the tale of Malcolm, an art school drop out who persuades his hapless friends to join his cockeyed crusade against the system.
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Bertha, “an assured one; and he will little thank any who obstructs my free passage to him;” and therewithal showing a little case, in which the signet of the Count of Paris was enclosed, “I will trust it in your hands,” she said, “if you promise not to open it, but to give me free access to the noble leader of the crusaders.”
Count Robert of Paris
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The Turks are rampaging across Asia, the first Crusaders are at the Empire's gates, and warfare is about to break out.
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And he crusaded to boost minority enrollment in honors classes until it matched the percentage of minorities enrolled in the school.
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In time the French Crusaders received papal absolution for their part in the business at Zara, but the Venetians did not.
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Through April 21 There was medieval armor for the departing Crusaders; otherwise, we were in fairy-tale land, especially given Ms. Damrau's oversize violet and fuschia costumes.
A Naughty Romp From Rossini
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'Hashashseyn' of the Crusaders 'days, whom we speak of as Assassins?
It Happened in Egypt
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I did not get to the crusades or inquisitions in the alloted time.
October 18th, 2009
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
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If Micheál Martin (who's on a bit of a personal crusade against fags) had successfully implemented his ban, would this hung over and rather lairy crew have forsaken their twenty packs?
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This, coming after that crusade resulted in a showcase for his inarticulation and inability to win an argument with even a complete idiot who equated not welcoming girls to the Boy Scouts with not allowing gays to marry.
Fourfour:
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Ukraine's "orange revolution" was supposed to be an anti-corruption crusade.
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They don't like the public being reminded that it was GOP stalwart Phil Graham's crusade for the dismantling of the Glass-Steagall Act, that was put in place after the Great Depression to protect the financial system from this kind of rapacious Republicanism, that was, in large part, the hole in the greed dam that put the economy where it is today.
Brian Ross: Why Republicans May Be Barack's Best Buddies at the Stimulus Luau
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He harnessed his new-found zeal to a crusade against vice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Castle of Otranto, written in 1764 and set during the Crusades, is considered to be the first English-language
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: Questions
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Just ask Scratchman, the goofy action hero who crusades for truth, justice and the Texas Lottery.
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So it was that his invasion of England, where the church was schismatic, was officially a crusade and a papal banner flew over the Norman knights at Hastings.
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The caped crusader's original big-screen outing is a real treat for fans of the television series.
The Sun
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August at the convention of treason he took the material where and as he found we see him trying hard to bring the money power of the union into his service, we find him extorting large sums for his political campaigns from the so-called despisable trusts, since then we became accustomed to look upon every man of wealth and the great industrials corporations who have been and are today of incalculable value and benefit to our national welfare, as nothing more or less than contemptible criminals, whom he offended in the most profane language during his crusade against them, if they refused to become a part of his machine.
The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
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He will promise a new crusade to help thousands of offenders turn their back on crime.
The Sun
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Automatons, illiterates and indigents of every shape and size, don't stop but aid this cruel crusade participate in their own demise.
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Returning Crusaders are thought to have introduced jams and jellies to Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus we have four distinct types of people involved in the incident as bandwagon accusers: (1) the cynical avaricious/profiteering sort, (2) the naive but self-centeredly good-intentioned true-believers, (3) the revolutionary murderers/crusaders, and (4) the cowardly.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Administration’s Response
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I came back convinced that there were only two American foreign policies, either isolationism or a crusade.
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These extremists are not the first to kill in the name of God; the cruelties of the Crusades are amply recorded.
Barack H. Obama - Nobel Lecture
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The Skyhawks, lugging a full bombload, seldom made more than 350 knots, and the sleeker, more powerful Crusaders were hard-pressed to remain with the formation.
On Yankee Station
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CVG - As substantially as the audiovisual splendour that gives you the opinion of existence in a actual war, the nearly unceasing consort of AI-controlled aggroup family makes the game's events see important … For the stunning single-player crusade lonely this is a mettlesome worth effort rattling agog about.
Www.awesomeblogs.com
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Nonetheless, I'm somewhat sympathetic to their crusade against horrible animal living conditions.
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And she's getting some assistance from the close-out crew there, so-called caped crusaders with her parachute and all the other things that you need to have attached to you before you go flying the space shuttle.
CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005
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There are both striking parallels and important differences between the contemporary war on drink and drugs and the old temperance crusade.
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The most prominent of these was Sultan Saladin, the 12th-century defeater of the Crusaders and liberator of Jerusalem.
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Their goal, stated repeatedly from the prophet muhammed and the Crusades he started and over the last 1300 yrs is Global Sharia Rule:
Yes, Faisal Shahzad must get Mirandized. | RedState
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And the surreal and brutal slaughter, violence and bloodletting equals the Crusades.
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The first of early Crusades were part of a religious revivalism.
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But John has no interest in crusades or foreign campaigns, is likely to make England the central jewel in his crown.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Thanks to fountains of chai, insomnia, neurosis, random bursts of manic energy, well wishes from the well wishers, angels of serendipity, and surreal twist of fortuity, "The Domestic Crusaders" was born and finished as a present to myself on my 23rd birthday.
Wajahat Ali: 'The Domestic Crusaders': Making History With Muslim American Theater
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In 2003, as a state assemblywoman, she crusaded against Proposition 54, which would bar government from collecting racial data.
The New Chinese Exclusion Act
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The Order of the Knights Templar was formed during the crusades when many knights and squires set out for the Holy Land.
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A group of Bradford friends are planning an ambitious 3,222 mile charity crusade around the UK - in a set of four clapped-out old Ford Fiestas.
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And that pornography is not a "neurotoxin" that damages the brain as some anti-pornography "crusaders" claim: "As for the persistent perception that pornography breeds crime against women: aggressive men don't need porn as an incentive to be violent.
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This experience launched Las Casas on his lifelong crusade against mistreatment of Indians, as exemplified by two institutions known as the encomienda and the repartimiento.
Bartolome de las Casas: father of liberation theology
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Yet he was drawing them together in almost a religious crusade.
Christianity Today
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Ebulliently trilingual, he crusades for sylvaner as if world peace were at stake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Medieval England was to gain a great deal from the Crusades.
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Money solved that problem, as it was to solve many others to come in the crusade against polio.
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With the terrified rats fighting back, a crusade is launched.
Times, Sunday Times
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Orders of chivalry had their origins in the religious orders of the Medieval Church, and in particular those created in the Holy Land during the crusades.
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This cape crusader is set to stay firmly on fashion's most wanted list.
The Sun
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Many of these exiles launched a relentless crusade of anti-Catholic propaganda and subversive literature against Mary, which the government was obliged to suppress or refute as best it could.
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He's devoted years of thought and action to foreign policy, and in decades past has courageously crusaded against national security corruption, including the CIA's connection to contra supporters involved with drug dealing.
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But the outcome only serves to emphasize the sadistic element in the popular doctrine of the crusade.
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Crusades, war against Russia, Serbia and others are the effect, the culprit is the ideology of globalization which has adopted the worst of communism, NS and capitalism. hardtruth
Tell Obama: Dump Gates « Antiwar.com Blog
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Robbie Casey hurled a high ball into the middle, the Crusaders' keeper John Connelly came for the ball but spilled it.
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Some Crusaders stayed on, to be granted various fiefs.
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The movement often took the form of a religious revival and was referred to as a crusade: one teetotal group was even included with the churches by the religious census of 1851, along with temperance Wesleyans and temperance Christians.
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The cross has been carried at the head of crusades and pogroms, even as it was offered to the weak as a model of how they ought to accept their suffering.
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This right of a married person to bonk on demand could take priority over other duties and was such serious business that, until a decretal from Pope Innocent III (1198-216), a man needed his wife's permission to go on a Crusade because without him home she might be led to commit adultery.
Jane Minogue: The Ever-Changing Definition of Marriage
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True, they crusaded to take women out of politics, but they did so in order to open up other areas of public life to women.
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Print Fall from grace for Maldives' democratic crusader Mohamed Nasheed was elected in 2008 on a platform of democracy and change Just over three years ago, supporters of then President Mohamed Nasheed lined up along the seawall in the capital, Male, waving flags to usher in what they called the "dawn of democracy".
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The town's aggressive crusade against firework louts has been hailed as the must successful in years.
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The caped crusader with her massive handbag is a new comic book heroine.
The Sun
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I told them both about my crusade to spread the word of sustainability and debunk the mythos about long-haired, granola-eating folk that surrounds it.
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It is a religious crusade for him.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this regard, he is not an armchair liberal, his crusade against hatred, neo-Nazism etc seems to be an integral part of his public identity.
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How many knew or worried about their dead relatives' organs until they were stirred up by showboating politicians, chancing lawyers, and medical crusaders?
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the Crusaders tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
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He lent me several copies of a periodical with the clamant title of The Clarion, which was just taking up a crusade against the accepted religion.
In the Days of the Comet
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Medieval representation of Frederick Barbarossa as a crusader,(Sentencedict) the role in which he met his death.
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He caught the public imagination as a crusader against corruption.
