• No one questions the origins of the Crusader sword or the Inquisitor's cloak.

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  • He said the effectiveness of the Crusader, which has no prototype, is a topic that has been under study for five or six years.

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  • The highlight of your visit - apart from Akko's excellent seafood restaurants - will almost certainly be exploring the Knight's Halls, the extraordinary complex of subterranean rooms that made up the bulk of the crusader fortress within the city walls.

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  • It is widely visible thanks to its three church towers and the ruins of a crusader castle built by the Boniface de Montferrat from Italy.

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  • Leave aside the obvious contradiction of a climate change crusader selling to a network largely financed by the petrodollar kingdom of Qatar.

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  • The investigation of the unauthorized release of talking points to Congress on the Crusader artillery program concludes Army Secretary Tom White continued to direct his staff to respond to Congressional inquiries on the program, expressing the Army's continued support for the weapon, even after White was told there was a preliminary decision to terminate the program.

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  • Time magazine in 2002 named Spitzer "Crusader of the Year, " a champion of the little guy.

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  • His supporters mused about what might come next for "the Enforcer, " "the Crusader, " "the Sheriff of Wall Street, " as he has been dubbed in adulatory news stories.

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  • Last September, after the untimely passing of actor Patrick Swayze from pancreatic cancer, actress turned alternative health crusader Suzanne Somers used the occasion to tell a Canadian newspaper that the real cause of his death was Swayze's chemotherapy treatments.

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  • "It's all done on purpose, " says Grover Norquist, an anti-tax crusader and member of the NRA's board.

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  • Akko is a favourite part of many visits to the Holy Land, offering a well-preserved remnant of crusader and Ottoman eras.

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  • In contravention of a public, competitive auction, Crusader conspired to rig the tax lien bidding by allocating certain liens to members of the conspiracy, thus ensuring that the prevailing bidder took the lien with an artificially higher interest rate than would likely have been derived from open competitive bidding.

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  • Mr Cahuzac gained a reputation as a vocal crusader against the use of overseas tax havens.

    BBC: Jerome Cahuzac, file pic from 19 March 2013

  • Mr Cahuzac - who gained a reputation as a vocal crusader against the use of overseas tax havens - quit in March.

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  • "Once a piece of information is out there, it's nearly impossible to obliterate, " says Christine Varney, a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission and a privacy crusader.

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  • Look around and you may see a coffee-table resting on a Greek capital, a tiny Roman mosaic sprucing up the foyer, a spread of Phoenician statuettes and Byzantine coins strewn along the bookshelves or a discreet Crusader cannon in the courtyard.

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  • One day shortly thereafter, Bon Jovi was walking through a dilapidated section of North Philadelphia with housing crusader Sister Mary Scullion, who suggested he fix up one of the houses.

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  • Henry Waxman, a Californian green crusader, has become chairman of the House energy committee.

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  • The Army inspector general is expected Tuesday morning to deliver a report on the circumstances under which the Army last week sent a paper of "talking points" to Capitol Hill defending the need to keep the Crusader program alive.

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  • It sets up a kind of spoof Batman and Robin, as if the Caped Crusader and his spooky lap-dog were not parody enough.

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  • In the tradition of the televangelist, that bond has survived its creator's metamorphosis from austere crusader against corruption to a man who clearly enjoys power and its perquisites.

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  • Or hit the party-filled port city of Bodrum, where cruise ships dock near a Crusader castle.

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  • Stops en route to visit Crusader castles in Karak and Shobak , the natural springs and olive groves of Tafileh, and on to the hidden pink city of Petra , UNESCO Heritage site.

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  • According to the Army statement, the resignation of Kenneth A. Steadman, principal deputy in the Army's Office of Legislative Affairs, followed his decision to accept responsibility for distributing the talking points defending the Crusader to Congress.

    CNN: Crusader controversy results in career casualty

  • In his football and wrestling careers, Nowinski suffered six concussions (that he can remember), the last of which had such severe side effects that he has become a full-time crusader against brain injuries in sports.

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  • The Crusader was scheduled to go into service in 2008 as the Army's next generation of mobile artillery to replace the aging Paladin system.

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  • Ms. DICKSON: I think it's important to understand, and Rob Williams has often been misunderstood, particularly in the early '60s he was labeled as a violent crusader by the press, and that's not a fair or very nuanced representation of Rob Williams.

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  • Not to mention that the crusader against climate change is taking petrodollars from an empire built on oil, the bete noire of environmentalists.

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  • The talking points were delivered within hours of a meeting in which Wolfowitz told White he had 30 days to come up with a plan to cancel the Crusader and put the money saved into advanced technology programs.

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