| Mostly, crusading politicians get frustrated and give up or learn the ropes and work within the existing system. |
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| She said that, as somebody who has been crusading to get insurance premiums down for drivers under 25, she was appalled at such comments. |
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| He was a pioneer conservationist, crusading to save Georgian London from the developers and responsible for saving Carlton House Terrace. |
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| His military expertise and amiability helped to keep the crusading army together. |
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| This was a crusading order that conquered the Baltic and subjugated the people of Brandenburg-Prussia. |
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| You're crusading against a lot of the violence that some of the other hip-hop artists celebrate. |
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| He was ridiculed and reviled, but this did not deter him for one second from crusading on behalf of society's outcasts. |
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| Such clashes put him in a fighting mood about the needs of the disabled, and he has been crusading for various causes ever since. |
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| The most ambitious crusading expedition of the later Middle Ages had ended in humiliating failure. |
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| She does not conceive of herself as a crusading advocate but is laid-back and open-minded in discussing araciality. |
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| His anti-corruption crusading, run-ins with management and police during strikes, and political ties made him a ripe target. |
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| Even judged as a piece of crusading journalism, it was curiously unpolitical. |
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| Foreign policy conservatism has become colored by triumphalism and crusading zeal. |
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| The story is a glowing portrait of a crusading humanitarian on a difficult mission to save his native land. |
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| His crusading attitude towards children's food may partly explain the format of his new book, Jamie's Dinners. |
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| And, it seems, that for all his crusading on behalf of workers, he isn't the best boss to work for. |
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| And he is crusading to force brokers to reveal how they are paid to sell certain funds. |
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| Why is it left to this small public company to be crusading in this area against the establishment? |
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| But it still strikes me as a bizarre issue to be crusading on behalf of. |
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| Cue damaged teenagers, heartbroken parents, and crusading lawyers who blow the whole story open. |
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| This more or less turns the crusading ethic on its head: the killer of evil is shedding his own blood, not the blood of others. |
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| The result was that Europe quickly lost its taste for crusading. |
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| Were my grandparents secretly crusading to end world hunger? |
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| As well as ensuring an independent source of co-operative news, the paper prides itself on its crusading role. |
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| The question arises,then,whether basic freedoms and rights have made any significant progress in the past ten years of liberal crusading. |
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| Bishops might preach at church consecrations or at the translation of relics, or go on occasional preaching tours, particularly to promote crusading fervour. |
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| A devout presbyterian and crusading liberal, he struggled mightily to put his grand ideals into practice. |
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| And If Tygart was the crusading general, Hamilton, the cyclist to his left, was one of the casualties. |
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| Today's crusading newspapers trace their origins back to the harsh early days of the 1979 revolution. |
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| The Crusade is literally what we've been doing for the last two years, crusading around the planet and getting our music out to everyone. |
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| It lagged in its early days because of the too-great enthusiasm of its crusading supporters who killed public interest by their exaggerations. |
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| More likely this is just some more short-sighted moral crusading leading into what is likely to be a shocking defeat for the current government at this year's election. |
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| Critics suggested darkly that he had never really intended to join the crusades, and was simply intending to profit from the crusading tithes. |
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| In his newspapers Pulitzer combined exposés of political corruption and crusading investigative reporting with publicity stunts, blatant self-advertising, and sensationalistic journalism. |
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| In the capitol of Kampala, Ssempa is known for his boisterous crusading. |
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| Local publications are the beneficiaries, and financial success has helped some develop strong reporting instincts, even taking up the crusading role the Review once had. |
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| I would rather stick with gentle, modest and pragmatic Tintin than the testosterone-laden, crusading, musclemen heroes so dear to Anglo-Saxon culture. |
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| Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's crusading finance minister from 2003 to 2006, is back in her old job after a stint as a managing director of the World Bank. |
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| After the fall of Montségur, as soon as the crusading armies had done their work, the Dominican Inquisition started acting ruthlessly in the area. |
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| It goes back to when the current Prime Minister was crusading against the Canadian Wheat Board since his days as chairman of the National Citizens' Coalition. |
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| After crusading for thirty years, bringing pressure to bear on health authorities and educating parents, is was possible to announce that the year 1953 passed with only 132 cases of diphtheria reported. |
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| Attempts at new international balances such as the enlarged G8 or the messianic crusading perception of the various superpowers of their role lead nowhere. |
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| One of the things I'm kind of disappointed about with Canadian culture is that our Canadian culture is stuff like Stargate SG-1 and programs about crusading coroners and sitcoms set in New York but produced in Canada. |
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| Its consequences may not even be what crusading journalists intend. |
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| Since her first one-woman exhibition at the Centre culturel de Lachute in 1975, Louise Kirouac has never ceased crusading for the protection of the environment through her painting. |
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| Wilson's crusading was, however, coupled with hardnosed realism. |
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| The war invigorated the search for energy and Royal Bank's Calgary manager, Ernie McLean, took a crusading role in briefing Royal Bank on the day-to-day financial needs of the oil patch. |
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| The major appeal of those who were crusading for the elimination of patronage was that as long as the foregoing practices continued, the civil service could never become efficient. |
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| This marked the end of Richard's crusading career and was a calamitous blow to Frankish morale. |
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| This ended the last significant crusading effort in the eastern Mediterranean. |
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| Henry saw Sicily as both a valuable prize for his son and as an excellent base for his crusading plans in the east. |
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| When word reached Philip that Richard had finished crusading and had been captured on his way back from the Holy Land, he promptly invaded Vexin. |
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| Roger seems to have felt the slight, and this might explain his later reluctance to go crusading. |
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| Patrick O'Donoghue has landed a job as a helicopter pilot crusading against Japan's cruel slaughter in the Antarctic Ocean. |
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| Amid a huge feast in the neighbouring hall, reminiscent of Arthurian legends and crusading events, the assembly took a collective oath to defeat Bruce. |
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| In August 2010, Craig was cast as crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist in David Fincher's 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. |
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| Crusading for them was an act of love and charity by which, like the Good Samaritan, they were aiding their neighbors in distress. |
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| Crusading newspaperman versus reactionary publisher was a stock trope of the first half of the twentieth century. |
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| My money is on Crusading Carly to oust the jejune and pointless Barbara Boxer. |
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| As Western Europe entered the 16th century, the age of Crusading began to come to an end. |
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| From 1234 Gregory IX encouraged further Crusading, but again the Bosniaks repelled the Hungarians. |
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| The collapse of the papacy's moral authority and the rise of nationalism rang the death knell for Crusading, ultimately leading to the Avignon Papacy and the Western Schism. |
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