crusade
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Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn described the push to keep the fight in Britain as a "two-man crusade".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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
To many Frenchmen, the war was a crusade to save justice and liberty.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Some righteous crusades can only be won by angry women.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
The first record of this unusual arrangement was when Virgil Butler had been contracted as servant, bodyguard, and cook to Lord Hugo de Fole for one of the first great Norman crusades.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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
The American Academy of Pediatrics began crusading against juice for kids.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
But the anti-drug crusading president thought that he, too, had been “treated very unfairly” and deserved a break.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 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
The six-fingered man was probably crusading in Asia.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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