Sentence examples for failed crusade from inspiring English sources

Some of the more startling facts are set out by US Russian studies professor Stephen Cohen in his book Failed Crusade, a savage indictment of western blindness to what has been inflicted on the one-time communist world.

He escaped to Illinois with his baby and mail order nanny, leaving his murder charges and failed crusade against liquor and sin behind him.

His other books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography; Rethinking the Soviet Experience; and Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia. Post-Communist Russia

Packaged as an airport bestseller, "Killing Pablo" recounts an important chapter in the story of how America's demand for drugs and its failed crusade against them have helped to plunge Colombia into chaos.

He might best be known for his failed crusade to ban gay men from playing in the NFL, a proposal that he made after the St. Louis Rams signed a gay college player, Michael Sam.

But for most Americans, the failed crusade in Vietnam eviscerated the delusion that we had a sacred duty to export American ways -- by force if necessary -- to a recalcitrant world.

He helped lead two failed crusades for far-reaching clean-energy ballot initiatives in 2016 and again in 2018.

In the first several chapters (constituting Part 1), Rose slowly introduces us to the world of William of Norwich, the cult that sprang up after his death, and the larger world full of failed crusades and rampaging knights intent on eking out a sense of victory, even at the expense of whole peoples.

As grand master, Herman began to shift his order's Christianizing and military activities away from the limited opportunities left in the Middle East in the wake of the failed late Crusades and toward the expanding pagan populations of eastern Europe.

For all of its violence and destruction, the Albigensian Crusade failed to remove the Cathar heresy from Languedoc.

Searching for an explanation, St. Bernard turned to Scripture and preached that the Crusade failed because of the sinfulness of Europe.