Sentence examples for crusade force from inspiring English sources

Alexius received Peter cordially and advised him to await the arrival of the main Crusade force.

When they saw the size of the Crusade forces and the resolve of the men, the Turks began to flee.

The main Crusading force, which departed in August 1096 as Urban directed, consisted of four major contingents.

In that hypothetical Hollywood movie, Margaret Humphreys would be a crusading force of nature.

In 1218 he joined the Crusading force from the West in an expedition against the Egyptian port of Damietta.

With the fall of Trebizond came the end of the Roman Empire; the Palaeologan dynasty continued to be recognized as the rightful emperors of Constantinople by the crowned heads of Europe until the 16th century when the Reformation, the Ottoman threat to Europe and decreased interest in crusading forced European powers to recognize the Ottoman Empire as masters of Anatolia and the Levant.

Over a series of Sundays, he launched a crusade to force airlines to forgo charging passengers for their carry-on luggage.

This emboldened other presidential candidates, Senator John Kerry and Representative Richard Gephardt, to speak out against the liberals' crusade to force Israel to abort its clean-out of terrorist nests.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani fired yet another salvo in his long-running crusade to force the Board of Education to trim spending on central administration, with his aides announcing late yesterday that they intend to play a more active role in reviewing and proposing school spending cuts.

Less well known is the billionaire's crusade to force farmers to confront it.

Haaretz routinely posts editorials that, penned by an American official, would send AIPAC on a crusade to force his resignation.