The midcampaign staff review underscores the difficulties Mr. McCain is having in trying to build his Republican presidential campaign around his crusades for tighter ethics rules and pledges to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
Rumours of his father's cowardice during the First Crusade, however, continued to circulate, and a desire to avoid the same reputation may have influenced some of Stephen's rasher military actions.
If he's following the crumbs of dessert back to pre-Crusades diets, it's because he stopped eating sweets to avoid middle-aged spread.
It also indicates that in order to avoid conflicts, states should avoid moral crusades or ideological confrontations, and look for compromise on the basis of satisfaction of their mutual interests alone.
When he received news that year of the Eighth Crusade led by King Louis IX of France, Baibars left for Cairo to avoid a confrontation.
Adil had just published this issue of Nia Zamana when his crusading journalistic enterprise came to an abrupt end - and he was lucky to avoid sharing Rehman's fate himself.
True, last Dec. 31 we celebrated in every time zone, stuffed the earth with time capsules and vowed fervently to avoid the worst errors of the thousand years past, such as crusades, foot binding and wine-in-a-box.
Gerald claimed about 3000 recruits for the crusade from his and Baldwin's efforts in Wales, although he also suggested that Baldwin mainly embarked on the tour to avoid his dispute with the Canterbury monks.
Sounding like a crusading district attorney, Gossage said any players who had used performance enhancers "need to come clean and put an end to this" to avoid further tarnishing the sport.
We need a national crusade to get homes built.
