Sentence examples for crusade like from inspiring English sources

Only later were those participants dubbed Crusaders—"those signed with the Cross". In fact, many developments with regard to the First Crusade, like the bestowing of the cross and the elaboration of Crusaders' privileges, did not occur until the late twelfth century, almost one hundred years after the event itself.

But for a minute... his daft old crusade, like he said, it had a kind of dignity.

Levin's crusade, like Schiff's, is to get us to see Haydn as being on a par with Mozart, as opposed to being his more modest precursor.

A Billy Graham crusade, like the one that gets under way tomorrow night in Queens, is a decidedly more complex undertaking, requiring, oh, several million painstakingly assembled ingredients.

The financial crisis has helped to teach people the dangers of excessive debt, but there's probably going to have to be a public crusade — like the ones against littering and smoking — to hammer the point home.

Some say the decline in applicants could point to a loss of luster for the program, which rose to prominence through the idea that teaching the nation's poorest, most needy students could be a crusade, like the Peace Corps.

Mr. McCarthy, the lawyer, said, "Kind of Crusade-like, isn't it?" On Tuesday morning, the group was joined by their pastor, the Rev. Edward C. Hathaway, who has been in the parish for three years.

In these images, shot on the Isle of Skye, members of the tribe gather wool, line up for Crusade-like marches and perform mysterious rituals that imply wrathful gods.

Check out an online exhibit on the history of the suffrage movement like "Crusade for the Vote" from The National Women's History Museum, discuss some of the questions in "Actions That Changed the Law," resources from Project Citizen, and read documentation from the "first convention ever called to discuss the civil and political rights of women" in New York state, 1848.

The acts of the Crusades, like the facts of slavery, happened.

To the nineteenth century, the Crusades, like most things medieval, were exotic, heroic, and spiritually fine.