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    1. but this is a crusade, buddy boy


    2. Give us our freedom and join with us in Holy Crusade


    3. The result of their crusade was all too apparent to Alec's generation


    4. Morte many years ago to join the Crusade to the Holy


    5. ‘He told me about joining the Crusade, but not why


    6. The rebellion’s leader, an ex-Legionnaire himself, had become violently disillusioned and lead in no small part by his pride to carry on a crusade


    7. It never for one minute occurred to me that we might have killed his mates for I was on a crusade now to avenge my friends


    8. money started the latest Iraq war rather than seeing it as a crusade


    9. General Ludlow has carried out a crusade against disease and dirt in Havana, undoubtedly the filthiest city in the world


    10. and starts a crusade, knowing that it wil not make him rich and that a painful death

    11. Emancipation transformed the war from one of self-preservation to a great crusade for justice


    12. I remember disgracing myself with some evangelical brothers some years ago in Aberdeen when a crusade was promoted in the city entitled “Christ the Answer”


    13. After that it ground against its Christian [Byzantine] adversary with little effect until the first Christian Crusade in the 11th century caused them a temporary setback” (Encyclopedia Americana; Mohammed)


    14. After that it ground against its Christian (Byzantine) adversary with oscillating consequences until the first Christian Crusade in the eleventh century caused them a major if temporary setback, and the Mongol invasion in AD 1228–1245 caused them the loss of all their territories north and east of their desert homeland


    15. 30, the following can be found: “In the year 1394, eight years before Bajazet’s misfortunes, Pope Boniface the Ninth proclaimed a Crusade, with ample indulgences for those who engaged in it, to the countries that were especially open to the Ottoman attack” (bolding mine)


    16. He kept urging me to write to the Khakhan and convince him to join Europa in a crusade against the Ottomans to free the Holy Land


    17. Besides it appeared very unlikely to me that he could get Europa to undertake such a crusade for us to join


    18. As it happened, the crusade against Christianity was fashioned some two decades prior to the sixties uprising, but was eagerly adopted by the rebels


    19. He concludes that no one is willing to pay the enormous cost of reducing the CO2 emissions said to cause global warming to the degree that the frantic global warming crusade would require


    20. “Be still my child, remember it may be the mightiest, the fastest that wins the feud, but it is the sharp of wit, the thinker that is triumphant in the omnipresent crusade

    21. Crusade, widespread massacre of Jews was rare in the west


    22. The princes’ crusade was much more successful: On July 15, 1099, they captured


    23. 7) and the Third Crusade (1189–90) produced similar massacres, motivated as much by


    24. The legal status of the Jews and their security remained unstable as the result of the First Crusade


    25. I believe this because the ACLU is the single most powerful weapon possessed by the Jewish Left in their crusade to destroy America as we know it and to rebuild it into a Communist state


    26. "Or of the Children's Crusade


    27. A progressive linking of the great crusade


    28. He is not on any kind of crusade, and jealously guards his knowledge from others


    29. Patron Saint of their party, and began a crusade to


    30. their Patron Saint, and went on a crusade to put his

    31. “There is, however, one crusade that we are


    32. “Captain Gulliver, it was to further this crusade that


    33. as their Patron Saint, and went on a crusade to put


    34. “Captain Gulliver, it was to further this crusade


    35. In their fancy clothes, the television Evangelists were on a crusade for a God that needed them


    36. In recent years he has expanded his writing and works with another author, Jim DeFelice, to continue his bestselling crusade


    37. Roman church, which is why the crusade was called


    38. What's more, the progress reports he regularly sent to Vanaprastham about his own crusade at Tihar insensibly lightened Gautam’s burden of guilt by degrees


    39. The echo in the gallery that followed seemed to have led him to the crescendo of his crusade


    40. He thought about stopping this whole crusade and settling down to a steady job or rejoining the Army

    41. John Ritchie closed the file and thought about Sam Ferris who, over the years since the end of the war, had become a one man crusade to bring Beck to justice


    42. His reason was candid; his motives, loudly proclaimed, gilded his actions with something of the glamor of a crusade


    43. When the FDA approved Dominex’s new sedative, Sandra Jenkins had gone on a crusade with Carol Freeman


    44. Does the practice of targeting killings as implemented by the Israelis against them in the early twenty-first century constitute an act of war or a form of ethnic cleansing? Were the American attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq justified by the World Trade Center attack? What was the fatality ratio? Ten thousand to one? How can that be justified? Was it in fact a crusade against Islam as some of the contemporary critics claimed?”


    45. few volunteers signed on to join the crusade in its early stages


    46. Hector continued his crusade for health


    47. uncouth, and needs to repent and join the crusade


    48. , the Mages of Ashmirmok began what was known as the Forefather’s Crusade, wiping all groups with ties to the old nations


    49. ? See church buses from white congregations offering rides to African Americans during the bus boycott! Imagine someone like Billy Graham holding a prayer crusade for King outside of the Birmingham jail


    50. With the end of World War II, a period of over fifty years passed in which journalists had depicted war as an honorable pursuit, a gallant adventure, a noble sacrifice and a glamorous crusade against the enemies of freedom












































    1. He crusaded a bit on making any abandoned area he found as accessible and public as possible


    2. Even a man of the cloth would surely find that blood was thicker than water, but would it inspire him to abandon all that he held sacred and that for which he had crusaded, having devoted his entire life to the cause, in order to avenge the wrong that had been done to his family?


    1. During the beating that I had taken that previous night, the words of Robbie’s boss stuck firmly in my head, words about Crusades and vengeance


    2. of his great crusades


    3. Not that this stone was really that old, for this world, probably built in the mid to late 40's; between the fall of Rome and the Crusades in European history


    4. Francis, their leader, boldly preached the gospel to the Sultan of the Muslim armies during the crusades


    5. time of the Inquisition and Crusades


    6. The crusades, too, though, by the great waste of stock and destruction of inhabitants which they occasioned, they must necessarily have retarded the progress of the greater part of Europe, were extremely favourable to that of some Italian cities


    7. was during a time like this - the crusades


    8. However, by the middle ages, with the crusades and interaction with the Muslims, there was a renewed interest both in hygiene and medicine


    9. During the crusades, especially, with many men off at war, women ran the taverns, made the ale, and ran the government


    10. She went on the Second Crusades as the leader of her troops - reportedly riding bare-breasted as an Amazon

    11. At first blush, the Crusades would appear to be an unlikely equivalent to the prime movers of the past, but maybe it has only been made to be seen like that because of the “bad press” the Crusades have gotten from media outlets of the modern era


    12. These outlets have given the impression that the Crusades were unwarranted invasions by aggressive mercenary armies, whose only aim was the looting and pillage of the traditional lands of others


    13. The Crusades did lift the onus of persecution of Christian pilgrims for a time


    14. 2009, titled “What Really Led to the Crusades?” p


    15. ” The apocalyptic think they are avenging the Crusades, in the name of Allah


    16. is now Israel, then there was England - in the shape of the so called crusades,


    17. How about the Crusades, Galileo, and the


    18. With the passage of the crusades, two new threats to the Jews appeared in the form of the blood libel and the desecration of the Host


    19. missing in those of the Crusades: Jews were not given the option of conversion


    20. His work was lost to the West in the chaos following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but was retrieved from Arab sources just before and during the Crusades

    21. forced out of Germany at the time of the crusades and after, they took Yiddish with them to Poland-Lithuania


    22. during the Crusades or the Inquisition, which is an approach still used today


    23. crusades, and violence in the name of God never stopped since 2,000 years ago


    24. In the case of crusades, religious leaders have often


    25. army to draw its swords and do the same as Western nations did during the crusades


    26. They are still going on crusades in the


    27. wage wars as far back as the crusades


    28. Tonight he would start on something oriental to balance the completed reading of The Crusades that still left wondrous images of valour and dedication in his mind


    29. Its crusades and violent inquisitions came out of this thinking that prevailed through the middle ages


    30. Often times living people were killed just for this purpose and this triggered countries to launch massive crusades to hunt down all necromancers and kill them

    31. Moody (1837-1899) preached the Gospel to millions of people at evangelistic crusades held around the country and in England


    32. How would you have challenged him on lynching and missions, if you were a vanguard leader during his lifetime? If he were alive and holding crusades today, would you want Moody to preach against abortion for the sake of the thousands of babies being murdered each week? Would you expect him to take a stand against these murders even though he would alienate many members of a political party? Would it matter that those alienated would never receive the Gospel from him after he took his stand against abortion? To stop abortion, should he try to change the hearts of the individual mothers seeking them or should he use his international platform for political activism? Would you speak up and burn bridges along with him or remain silent?


    33. holy lands and was waging crusades in the name of God


    34. Many of these raids later became known as the holy crusades


    35. And The Band Played On, the story of the early crusades against AIDS and The Rat Pack, a biographical documentary on Frank Sinatra and his cronies


    36. He’d followed Forrest’s corporate crusades since he was old enough to understand the meaning of the word traitor


    37. “Getting rid of her, as you put it, is not an option! Lady Annabelle has recorded history in its truest form that dates back to the Crusades


    38. You may have heard about the Crusades


    39. in the many crusades that were carried out within our national


    40. The Crusades began in 1096, but the zeal of the Christians was in no way matched by

    41. But subsequent crusades were not nearly so successful, largely because Christian infighting never subsided


    42. same as those of the Mongols, and on the way to confront the Mongols in the Levant they were allowed safe passage by the usually hostile Christians still holding territory from the Crusades


    43. The crusades, however steeped in a


    44. Alexander the great, the crusades in the holy land, accounts of ancient Greece


    45. Al of the atrocities during the crusades were perpetrated by non


    46. Crimes like the senseless massacres of the Christian Crusades, committed in the name of the Christ and sanctioned by Rome


    47. crusades were all segregated


    48. The descendants of those Jews that converted to Islam, or to Christianity thanks to the Crusades, are now what you call Palestinian Arabs, Mister Shomron


    49. Jihad, the Crusades, the


    50. Testament advocating the crusades and never were






































    1. He says when President Reagan helped scatter the USSR by crusading there for religious tolerance, that that was as much a turning point as the Berlin Wall coming down


    2. were crusading were acting on what they saw as their moral


    3. Mary Jane still isn’t legal, but congress is working on new laws, mostly inspired by some crazy old crusading bat who’s going town-to-town shouting about how pot isn’t that bad


    4. She had been crusading relentlessly against drugs – 196 anti-drug journalists had been murdered in the six years since her death…


    5. I went into cities, and we did massive campaigns for men, crusading to get men to stand up


    6. crusading zeal against our oppressors


    7. I’d always assumed she was nasty, what with all the moral crusading, but maybe she wasn’t


    8. the crusading warriors arrived from the northwest


    9. The crusading wars continued for almost two centuries


    10. In the same way that some children grow up wanting to be crusading lawyers, Caitlin had decided that she wanted to help reform the financial system

    11. With all these favorable circumstances, when but a hint from the British Ministry in favor of these people might have released them, yet being so delicate a subject that it has not been touched by them, shall we, who have been crusading and exerting every nerve for the releasement of our seamen, and with all our efforts have been unsuccessful, shall we start on a fresh crusade for these men, when the efforts of the Government in the other cause, in so noble, so just, and so humane a cause, have as yet proved unavailing? Shall we engage in a contest for these people, who are acknowledged justly to be in the power and under the sentence of the courts of another nation, whilst the honest American tar, guiltless of harm, is writhing under the lash of every boatswain on board a man-of-war? If you will go on and reform the whole world, begin with one grievance first; to use a homely phrase, do not put too many irons in the fire


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    Synonyms for "crusade"

    campaign cause crusade drive effort movement agitate fight press push warfare attack

    "crusade" definitions

    a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end


    any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims


    exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for


    go on a crusade; fight a holy war