crusade

In 2014 the Times’s editors launched an editorial crusade for full legalization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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 unlikely vehicle is not some glamorous investigative exposé or Pulitzer-winning newsroom crusade.

From Salon ● May 13, 2026

Maybe it would help the boy understand Roy’s reluctance to participate, even though he sympathized with the owl crusade.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

But as “The Perfect Neighbor” crusades toward its inevitable end, the film’s empathy depletes.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025

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

These are ventures — often one-person crusades — that celebrate fast food, Finnish folk art, Skid Row, skateboarding, vertebrate zoology and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

Toward the end of the thirteenth century, the Catholic Church began what could be called a series of domestic crusades within Europe.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

This is only one of dozens of ways in which Kennedy has crusaded against standards in science and health.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025

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

In Miami, he crusaded for the arts, helping the city become an international cultural destination.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

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

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

In this case, it was someone who became so utterly obsessed with an obscure idea that he spent the final years of his life crusading for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

Roberts won a lead actress Oscar in 2001 for playing a crusading real-life legal clerk in “Erin Brockovich,” a role that perfectly combined her acting strengths and star wattage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 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

She could keep trusting Mom and Dad, and keep being my whining, chess-playing, crusading Charlemagne.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia