Sadly, most congressmen have less faith in policy crusades than they have in their ad men.
She is a senator who lacks a senior politician's gravitas, an insider who crusades like an outsider.
Hurwitz says his legal crusades erased many lucrative business opportunities over the years, though he won't name them.
Now he seeks to help coordinate varying local crusades to let all the branches know which pleas work the best.
During the Crusades, the nobility and peasantry of Europe abruptly crossed the known world and fought for places they had only ever read about.
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His good sense of humor and relaxed manner make him a suitable government envoy to Silicon Valley and elsewhere as he crusades for self-regulation.
The courses - in topics as varied as British cinema, the Crusades and Christmas customs - are held at the Centre for Community Engagement (CCE).
With the insurance business suffering through one of its periodic price-cutting crusades, revenue also fell 31%, representing the first such drop for the Stamford, Conn. firm in two years.
Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum, urged business leaders and politicians to launch personal clean-up crusades to regain confidence lost through debacles such as the Enron scandal.
Mr. Connell was the author of 19 books, including two book-length poems, a biography of Spanish painter Francisco Goya and a historically detailed novel about the Crusades, "Deus Lo Volt!"
He launched a litany of complaints about the Church that I'd come to hear over and over: it was the most reactionary force in the world, anti-Semitic, misogynist, homophobic....the Vatican...the Crusades...
Country-club Republicans care about pocketbook issues, not social crusades.
The EPA and NLRB wage regulatory crusades against businesses.
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While he crusades to hold Wall Street to the highest standards, the evidence suggests Spitzer has toed the gray lines that separate truth from hypocrisy and divide the honest from the unethical.
It was a victory won by countless Americans who refused to accept the world as it is, and against great odds, waged quiet struggles and grassroots crusades until finally change was won.
His crusades against crime and quality-of-life annoyances served his larger ambition, which was to root out the assumptions that had built New York into a welfare city-state always at the edge of crisis.
During the Crusades, which was the last time that western civilization had to cope with a sex ratio like the one we have today, the surplus women went to (or were sent to) convents.
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Unlike the PAN, whose leaders seem obsessed with causes and crusades -- for Fox, defending Mexican immigrants in the United States, and for Calderon, the drug war -- the PRI kept the trains running on time.
Through the decades, however, the masses have responded most intensely not to calculated appeals to their self-interest (though that didn't hurt) but to selfless, if not self-sacrificing, crusades for what is seen to be just and righteous.
The Roman Empire eventually crumbled, but some of its banking institutions lived on in the form of the papal bankers that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire, and with the Knights Of The Temple during the Crusades.
As for Bono, investing in a publication that celebrates capitalism and consumption may seem to sit awkwardly with his crusades against world poverty, including a trip to Africa with Paul O'Neill, America's treasury secretary at the time.
James White's four-color monthly, the Payson Patriot, zaps the town's government for overspending, crusades against domestic violence and ferrets out the cheapest supermarkets (a comparison-shopping article found Wal-Mart beat competitors like Safeway for a basket of staple items).
One imagines, too, that a host of security agencies have taken a cue from the waybills and are busy assembling lists of names associated with the Inquisition and the Crusades in an effort to identify terrorist packages more quickly.
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Thibaud, Count of Champagne, is said to have brought chardonnay to champagne on his return from the Crusades, and the Taittinger family not only owns his palace, dating from 1240, but is among the handful of winemakers who most notably amplify his vine's legacy.
In 1986, in one of his last crusades as cofounder and chief of the Center for Law in the Public Interest, he played a key role in pushing passage of the whistleblower law, which made it easier to prove wrongdoing and lifted informants' payoff to as much as 30% of the booty.
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