crusade

Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn described the push to keep the fight in Britain as a "two-man crusade".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

I stopped my social crusade to fit in among the popular students in my class.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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 institution has a lot of baggage, as any organization with nearly two millennia and a few crusades under its cincture is bound to have.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025

Instead of a powder puff, there was a chamois leather bag with powdered chalk in it, scented with attar of roses from the crusades.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison Friday, Russia’s prison agency said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

Paul Morantz, a California lawyer who crusaded against brainwashing self-help gurus, crooked psychotherapists and menacing cults, including one that nearly killed him with a rattlesnake, died Oct.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022

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

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

Horace Mann, the crusading head of Massachusetts’ school system, warned in 1839 that there were just not enough schools.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2024

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