Fight for a cause

Usage examples of crusade.

An-Nassir, the emperor of the Almohades, responded to the effort of the Pope by organizing a crusade in Moslem Africa.

The antidrug crusade on television and in magazines suffers from a lack of focus.

She broke the story of his antidrug crusade and continued to trumpet it despite intense criticism.

The government gets their tax money, the lawyers get their fees, smokers get a product they love, and the antismoking lobby gets a crusade to feel superior about.

When, in 1226, Avignon sided with the count of Toulouse against Louis VIII during the Albigensian Crusade, the French king razed the bridge.

The Kill-the-Bees crusade claimed that 100 million bees perished - a figure most observers thought inflated.

Arant idea or that the God-made ectogenetic machines on which the Arant heresy arose had probably existed and been destroyed during the terrible crusade.

If Gijon is become no longer a trade port but rather a naval basin, marshaling port, and embarkation facility, then there is scant need to defend it with land fortifications, not with the intelligence abroad in Europe that all of the larger ships of the navy of England either were destroyed fighting each other in the early days of the civil war that preceded the crusade or were scuttled to prevent capture by one or the other side years agone.

And he, I take it, means to have Gijon attacked and razed before any Crusade can from there be launched?

SEVENTEEN The Bill of Rights FOR JOHN Diefenbaker himself, probably the headiest moments of the Diefenbaker Years came on July i, i 96o, when he rose in the House of Commons to deliver a sixty-two-minute address that eloquently climaxed the chief legislative crusade of his political life: the adoption of a Canadian Bill of Rights.

But some hobs live with families whose grandfathers or even farther back had gone on Crusade, and picked up using opium that way.

With the Crusade underway at last, such travel is greatly restricted, and most of it is controlled by the Knights Hospitaler, which makes things especially difficult, for recently they have given preferential escort to clergy and other religious.

In his intercourse with the Latins, Alexius was patient and artful: his discerning eye pervaded the new system of an unknown world and I shall hereafter describe the superior policy with which he balanced the interests and passions of the champions of the first crusade.

South of France, although any records confirming this would have been destroyed during the systematic devastation of the Languedocian culture that accompanied the Cathar crusade.

God only knew what over the blades of the Amazon sword plant, settling on the Madagascar lace where the recent wave of immigrants seemed to have thinned considerably since their arrival as a glittering turquoise discus passed trailing a shred of black skirt from its jaws and the sea horses, gliding past the walls of the castle with all the diminutive rectitude of the knights of King Richard the Lionhearted raising the siege at Acre, only for it to fall once again to the gleaming ranks of the Saracens a century later ending the last Crusade and, with it, the kingdom of Jerusalem, were now nowhere to be seen.