• "When they look at the war, they don't consider it a crusade for democracy, " he said.

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  • The club was almost bankrupt but he became part of our crusade for promotion.

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  • And many pronounced themselves impressed by the hero's crusade for justice and honesty in Pakistani society.

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  • He has started two organizations: the International Crusade for Holy Relics USA and the Apostolate for Holy Relics.

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  • Frank Marshall Davis saw GM as a sinister force, and was unrelenting in his anti-GM crusade for years to come.

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  • This is not a plea for a press-driven crusade for gun control.

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  • Hence the crusade for technology: Ross is a businessman, first and foremost, so he needed to find a way to lure spectators back in the field.

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  • Things got even livelier when a third giant of the crusade for better corporate governance Ralph Whitworth, an activist investor joined in the argument on Mr Ross Goobey's side.

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  • This longstanding European fear that an American-led crusade for democracy in the Middle East could end up replacing bad regimes with worse ones, or just with violent anarchy, has been reinforced by the war in Iraq.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • But for Jim Swire and John Mosey you get the feeling the verdicts, whatever they are, will merely mark the end of one process and the beginning of another stage in their crusade for truth and justice.

    BBC: Living with Lockerbie

  • The Great Commission Foundation of Campus Crusade for Christ, an Orlando evangelical group, is seeing bigger gifts than last year, in part because "we have these conversations" with donors, said Bob Hawkes, executive director of the group.

    WSJ: Fiscal Talks Spur Charitable Giving

  • There is nothing worse than a formerly promiscuous aunt now on a crusade for moral rectitude playing the harpy and scold in the sick room, elbowing the doctor aside to upbraid the patient with inappropriately timed, self-righteous sermons.

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  • In practice, however, far from revealing that the pursuit of human rights abroad was futile, Mr Reagan's presidency showed that it was possible to have your cake and eat it ie, you could crusade for rights while enhancing your national power and interest.

    ECONOMIST: The bloodhounds of history

  • Two months after a rousing crusade for tough anti-corruption laws led by former army driver turned Gandhian activist Anna Hazare caught the government on the hop, his core team - a motley group of activists, lawyers and former government officers - is mired in controversies.

    BBC: Will India's anti-corruption campaign implode?

  • It was a "quiet crusade" for Clements to identify and treat mental illness among prisoners, he said.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Although some congressional Democratic strategists are ambivalent about Gore's legal crusade, for fear of a backlash in the 2002 elections, party activists are so strongly behind Gore that it's not in the interest of congressional leaders to be anything but fully supportive in public.

    CNN: Bush's Contested Lead

  • Mr Davis's crusade is (for Mr Cameron) a worrying return to priorities other than taking and wielding power.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • If they are looking for a crusade, the Bengal Tigers really could use some help.

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  • And with Mr Alvarez's resignation, the Alliance has lost the standard-bearer for its crusade against corruption.

    ECONOMIST: Argentina

  • Most Americans do not become members of a church to sign up for a crusade or to sit in judgment on miserable sinners.

    ECONOMIST: Therapy of the masses

  • The 15-year-old became an international symbol of courage after she was shot by Taliban gunmen last fall for her crusade about girls going to school.

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  • But then the entire anti-smoking crusade descends into farce for me.

    FORBES: E-Cigarettes Should Be Promoted, Not Banned

  • Late on a snowy evening, Alexey Navalny, a lawyer and blogger known for his crusade against the corruption that pervades Russian business and government, sat in a radio studio in Moscow.

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  • Mr Bove, who has become a folk hero in France for his crusade against globalisation, told the court that the attack was aimed at highlighting the injustices of the world trading system.

    BBC: France's farm crusader jailed

  • Having wrenched Labour to the centre of politics, Mr Blair has every reason to deny Mr Livingstone a platform for this damaging crusade back to the left.

    ECONOMIST: Is Tony Blair a Dalek?

  • Goodman and his National Center for Policy Analysis have been on a lonely crusade to get somebody anybody interested in Social Security privatization for well over a decade.

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  • Bloomberg has become known nationally for his personal crusade to rid the city of things he deems harmful and unnecessary, such as salt, trans fats and the ability to smoke.

    FORBES: The Final Year Of Mayor Bloomberg's Term Is Poised To Be The Most Dangerous

  • Burger's crusade comes at an awkward time for hospitals: It's hard to find nurses these days.

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  • Mr Morgan shows that, however real it once had been, the communist threat was already under control when the senator for Wisconsin launched his crusade.

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  • Dame Stephanie said she was on a "crusade" to find skilled work for women who had left the workplace to start families or look after relatives.

    BBC: Teleworking: The myth of working from home

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