crusade

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

From Barron's

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

From Salon

Following her first stint as an elected representative, she continued to crusade for various causes, including civil liberties and better social-welfare programs for women and children.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even after Blanc arrives, he’s confounded to find himself occasionally standing on the sidelines, a bystander in Jud’s moral crusade to herd his congregation toward righteousness.

From Los Angeles Times

He changed the course of American letters with his crusade against censorship by publishing works including D.H.

From New York Times