crusade

In 2014 the Times’s editors launched an editorial crusade for full legalization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Now, under mounting international pressure, authorities are on a crusade to rid the country of that reputation.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

But that crusade was also fueled by nostalgia.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

Strickland, who is Hilton’s campaign chair, swears that he and his former colleagues didn’t plan to take their crusade statewide, but “when you do a great job, other opportunities present themselves.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

The Chicago Tribune made fare reductions a crusade and openly attacked the railroads.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

When Richard the Lionheart led crusades to the Middle East they were funded by crippling taxes at home.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

He is a traditionalist Roman Catholic who crusades for the traditional Latin Mass and enjoys discussing medieval philosopher-theologians and ancient texts.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

These are ventures — often one-person crusades — that celebrate fast food, Finnish folk art, Skid Row, skateboarding, vertebrate zoology and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

“As their crusades to spread fear and division became more blatant,” remarked Lear in his autobiography, “so did my desire to sabotage their efforts through ridicule.”

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2023

I was up in my room at college, studying about Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless for my history exam on the crusades the coming Monday, when the hall phone rang.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Hutchinson said residents have responded in force to his call for emergency sidewalks repairs, just as they did when he crusaded for a crackdown on widespread illegal dumping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

This is only one of dozens of ways in which Kennedy has crusaded against standards in science and health.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025

In addition to convicting Nazi war criminals, he crusaded for an international criminal court.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2023

Rep. Jolene Unsoeld, a champion of open government, crusaded for the initiative as a state legislator.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The American Academy of Pediatrics began crusading against juice for kids.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

It’s a story of crusading feminism, but it’s not overtly political.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

The items reportedly also include documents from the Teutonic Order -- a Catholic brotherhood of crusading knights active in the Middle Ages.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

What the Bullmers and company should have known is not to bring a crusading journalist aboard a boat where so much skullduggery is on the itinerary, and so many spoilers in the cargo hold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Maybe, in a month or two more at Jerry’s, I might have regained my crusading spirit.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich