crusade

Vitamin C was filed away with other “alternative” remedies, and Pauling’s late-career crusade was widely seen as a sad mistake.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Although they broadly agreed that these statutes created a limited set of rights, they never embraced their conservative colleagues’ crusade to strip private parties of any meaningful way to enforce them.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

The crusade to prevent skin-cancer deaths, Mr. Jacobsen argues, has fostered an absolutism about the risks of sunlight that permeates the media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

But that crusade was also fueled by nostalgia.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

Meanwhile, clergymen, college presidents, and other self-appointed spokesmen for communal standards of morality seized upon the Burr-Hamilton encounter to launch a crusade against dueling throughout most of the northern states.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The campaign takes a page from other Rust Belt cities, including Detroit and South Bend, that have undertaken big blight elimination crusades, with varying degrees of success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

When Richard the Lionheart led crusades to the Middle East they were funded by crippling taxes at home.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

He is a traditionalist Roman Catholic who crusades for the traditional Latin Mass and enjoys discussing medieval philosopher-theologians and ancient texts.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

They were involved in peace crusades and helped to organize public schools so that the children of those less affluent could become upwardly mobile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

I was up in my room at college, studying about Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless for my history exam on the crusades the coming Monday, when the hall phone rang.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Hutchinson said residents have responded in force to his call for emergency sidewalks repairs, just as they did when he crusaded for a crackdown on widespread illegal dumping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison Friday, Russia’s prison agency said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

Paul Morantz, a California lawyer who crusaded against brainwashing self-help gurus, crooked psychotherapists and menacing cults, including one that nearly killed him with a rattlesnake, died Oct.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022

After World War I, the Catholic Church crusaded worldwide for moral renewal.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022

He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

It’s a story of crusading feminism, but it’s not overtly political.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

A serious survey of the Israel-Palestinian conflict would be highly beneficial to everyone, but it would have to examine arguments made by both sides—that’s the difference between real academic instruction and political crusading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

The items reportedly also include documents from the Teutonic Order -- a Catholic brotherhood of crusading knights active in the Middle Ages.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

“We are very different,” says Mackey of her crusading governor, on a video call from London, where she is currently in production on Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

Maybe, in a month or two more at Jerry’s, I might have regained my crusading spirit.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich