crusade

His crusade against Delta and Bastian is tame compared with his last airline feud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

He has continued this crusade, recently endorsing a $20 minimum wage and speaking out against the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Now, under mounting international pressure, authorities are on a crusade to rid the country of that reputation.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

When he launched a crusade against an outbreak of malaria, Celia inoculated schoolchildren.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

The institution has a lot of baggage, as any organization with nearly two millennia and a few crusades under its cincture is bound to have.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025

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.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The Sarkisyans have crusaded to have the Pilot Life ruling overturned and to spare others their daughter’s fate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

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

O'Rourke has long crusaded against big money in politics, and he made a point of not accepting money political action committees in 2018.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

But the anti-drug crusading president thought that he, too, had been “treated very unfairly” and deserved a break.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 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

Horace Mann, the crusading head of Massachusetts’ school system, warned in 1839 that there were just not enough schools.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2024

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