The Venetians, who had also joined the crusade, could not persuade Lekë Dukagjini, Skanderbeg's lukewarm ally in northern Albania, to join until the pope intervened.
First, crusading could not have worked any better in our world than it did in the past.
But if Castro had chosen among the cousins for one to champion his crusade, he could not have done better than Juan Miguel.
Duke Robert Curthose, the eldest of the three brothers, who by Norman custom had succeeded to his father's inheritance in Normandy, was returning from the First Crusade and could not assert his own claim to the English throne until the following year.
Sitting in his office more than three years ago, Ryan could not have foreseen how successful his crusade to reinvent the Republican Party would be.
The operation could not easily be defined as a Western crusade.
On TV once I saw this person who is crusading against sexual definition, and you could not tell if this person was male or female completely asexual.
Spielberg recalled the line in Raiders that said, "It's not the years, it's the mileage," and felt he could not tell the difference between Ford during the shoots for Last Crusade and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
But the crossbow proved useful in the Crusades against the infidel and, once introduced, could not be eradicated in any event.
Philip Augustus led French contingents on the most fully international of the great Crusades (1190 91), although, having once demonstrated his energy in that work of piety, he could not afterward be persuaded to renew his vow.
