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crusade as in: a crusade against pollution
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She is crusading for women's rights.
crusading = campaigning or working for
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Their one chance for life was in union, and so the struggle became a kind of crusade.† (source)
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That night, lying in bed, Roy felt a stronger connection to Mullet Fingers, and a better understanding of the boy's private crusade against the pancake house. (source)crusade = effort for a cause thought important
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I'll call it The Children's Crusade. (source)Crusade = a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
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I got that bruise in Birmingham after the Children's Crusade.† (source)Crusade = a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
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Of the subsequent Communist Party siege of Paradise Pickles & Preserves, led by Ayemenem's own Crusader for Justice and Spokesman of the Oppressed.† (source)Crusader = someone who campaigns or works for a cause in which they passionately believe
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Images from old history flip through his head, sidebars from Blood and Roses: Ghenghis Khan's skull pile, the heaps of shoes and eyeglasses from Dachau, the burning corpse-filled churches in Rwanda, the sack of Jerusalem by the Crusaders.† (source)Crusaders = people who campaign or work for a cause in which they passionately believe
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Today he was fighting their battle, he was fighting the same enemy they had fought for ages, as far back as the eleventh century ....when the enemy's crusading armies had first pillaged his land, raping and killing his people, declaring them unclean, defiling their temples and gods.† (source)crusading = campaigning or working for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
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He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.† (source)crusaded = campaigned or worked for a cause that was passionately believed to be important
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It was the Children's Crusade down there.† (source)Crusade = a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
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By the time she was in high school, she was a crusader for Girls Learn International, and the group was gathering chapters around the country.† (source)crusader = someone who campaigns or works for a cause in which they passionately believe
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And I haven't even mentioned friars, crusaders, or witches.† (source)crusaders = people who campaign or work for a cause in which they passionately believe
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In fact, my white fans were going to cheer for me like I was some kind of crusading warrior: Jeez, I felt like one of those Indian scouts who led the U.S. Cavalry against other Indians.† (source)crusading = campaigning or working for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
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I remember when I was a child, Billy Sunday brought his holy-revival crusade to town.† (source)crusade = a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
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Crusades as in: First Crusade to Jerusalem
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Resentments date back to the Crusades.
Crusades = any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East
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One of the goals of the West in The First Crusade was to recapture Jerusalem after 461 years of Muslim rule.Crusade = the first military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East
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As though they are noblemen in grandstands viewing fortress warfare in the years of the Crusaders. (source)Crusaders = European Christian fighters in one of the military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries invading the Holy Land in the Middle East
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The real Saladin had united the Muslim world under the Ayyubid dynasty and recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders. (source)Crusaders = European Christian fighters of invasions of the Middle East in the 11th to 13th centuries
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"Imbuing violence with holy meaning," wrote the historian Iris Chang, "the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition."† (source)Crusades = the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East
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A sculpture fashioned by knights of the Crusades from gold and jewels as tribute to a king, it is an emblem of the church and the monarchies—those rapacious institutions that have served as the foundation for all of Europe's art and ideas.† (source)
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That's part of what the Crusades were about.† (source)
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The Crusades.† (source)
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And in the Bible it says Thou shalt not kill but there were the Crusades and two world wars and the Gulf War and there were Christians killing people in all of them.† (source)
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In the first row, he recognized Mother Slaughter and Josiah Worthington, and the old earl who had been wounded in the Crusades and came home to die, and Doctor Trefusis, all of them looking solemn and important.† (source)
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Combating mitigation has become one of the great crusades in commercial aviation in the past fifteen years.† (source)
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The first record of this unusual arrangement was when Virgil Butler had been contracted as servant, bodyguard and cook to Lord Hugo de Pole for one of the first great Norman crusades.† (source)
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Mackay had a low opinion of all Crusades.† (source)
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Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham's newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius.† (source)
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