Of course, a tough economy helps attract people to professions they might not have otherwise considered, as does a crusading time when Wall Street has become a symbol of greed, arrogance and irresponsibility.
In the 1920s, sunbathing first became a public health crusade (this time promoting it).
Apart from the university's efforts, the alumni themselves have increasingly refused to join the anti-Singer crusade, taking time to study the philosopher's work and discovering that his views are not as radical as they originally thought.
In 2001, she took on her crusade full-time after being forced to abandon her career as a actor on account of her persistent symptoms.
Just as more moderate voices took control of mainstream Christianity in the centuries after the Crusades, the time has come for similarly moderate voices to take control of mainstream Islam.
Druze migrated to Syria, Lebanon, and eventually to Palestine between the 11th and 13th centuries during the Crusades, a time when the Jewish population in Palestine was at a minimum.
The Albigensian Crusade, the first time Christians mounted a religious war against other Christians, was nothing but a naked land grab by the French nobility.
Perhaps the right to pop your own zits is not the ultimate feminist crusade of our time.
The First Crusade had successfully conquered Jerusalem, and those who had returned home before completing the journey were often shamed into going on crusade a second time; some of them, like Stephen of Blois, were killed on their second journey.
Instead of continuing to pursue this pointless and distracting political crusade, it's time for the House to get down to the hard work of rebuilding the middle class and moving America forward.
