Sentence examples for intellectual crusade from inspiring English sources

It was his pro-capitalist intellectual crusade against Shining Path terrorists in his native Peru that made him one of their top targets; he survived at least three attempts on his life.

One is the social gospel movement, a Protestant intellectual crusade in the early 20th century in America and Canada that applied "Christian ethics" to issues of social justice.

It had become an obsession, what he described as an intellectual and philosophical "crusade against quitting".

At the same time, some of the intellectual consequences of the Crusades came to play an important role in the history of skepticism: Muslim and Jewish scholars and writings came to the attention of Christians working on similar topics.

Her life, she tells Gracie, has become a crusade against "feminists, intellectuals and ugly women": epithets she seems to think apply especially well to undercover F.B.I. agents.

So he has abandoned his decade-long crusade to fix intellectual-property laws in favour of a crusade to fix everything, starting with the "coin-operated experts".In our recent podcast, Mr Lessig talks about his own conversion process and the plans for a "wiki army" that will jumpstart a political sea change: think of the conservative movement, circa 1964.

Smeal laments the fact that abortion has been reduced to an "intellectual debate" and likens Gomperts's crusade to the early stages of the civil rights movement in the United States.

The crusade against the crusaders continues.

Drawing its strength from Methodist lay preachers and Roman Catholic trade unionists, as well as secular intellectuals, it has been a moral crusade or nothing.

In fact, as his column the following day made clear, Dunleavy pursues his pro-cop crusade with little regard for intellectual consistency or balance.

It's always a difficult moment for a modern audience: the crusading reformer turning into an intellectual aristocrat.