crusade

Few scam victims ever get their money back, but Kaul’s dogged crusade appeared set to pay off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Hearst used his newspaper empire to crusade against animal experimentation and cruelty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Vitamin C was filed away with other “alternative” remedies, and Pauling’s late-career crusade was widely seen as a sad mistake.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

He has continued this crusade, recently endorsing a $20 minimum wage and speaking out against the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

His job became a single-minded crusade against the Household Finance Corporation.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The campaign takes a page from other Rust Belt cities, including Detroit and South Bend, that have undertaken big blight elimination crusades, with varying degrees of success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

Using the imagery of crusades, he assailed “the late unholy war with the Indians” and the “wicked crusade against the peace of Mexico” during the 1830s.

From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024

Toward the end of the thirteenth century, the Catholic Church began what could be called a series of domestic crusades within Europe.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025

The Sarkisyans have crusaded to have the Pilot Life ruling overturned and to spare others their daughter’s fate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

His team said several Moscow churches refused to hold the funeral for the man who crusaded against official corruption and organized massive protests.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2023

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

In this case, it was someone who became so utterly obsessed with an obscure idea that he spent the final years of his life crusading for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

Roberts won a lead actress Oscar in 2001 for playing a crusading real-life legal clerk in “Erin Brockovich,” a role that perfectly combined her acting strengths and star wattage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 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

In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann