Sentence examples for support the crusade from inspiring English sources

The papacy accused Frederick of failing to support the Crusade mounted by Thibaut of Champagne in 1239 and delaying its departure for the East.

It would seem that attacks on the Sprague Dawley rat are situational: when they show a result contrary to the anti-BPA crusade, they are bad; when they support the crusade and deliver precious grant money to universities, they are good.

Rutebeuf wrote verse in personal, even autobiographical mode (though the personal details are probably fictional) on a variety of subjects: his own pitiful circumstances, the quarrel between the University of Paris and the religious orders, the need to support the Crusades, his reverence for the Virgin, and his disgust at clerical corruption.

Although neither France nor Spain supported the crusade and Fitzmaurice was surprised and killed in August 1579, the government was extremely apprehensive.

Unlike the First Crusade, however, the Second Crusade was led by two of Europe's greatest rulers, King Louis VII of France and Emperor Conrad III of Germany. Louis enthusiastically supported the Crusade, but Conrad was reluctant at first and was won over only by the eloquence of St. Bernard.

Da Vinci's Demons Demoralized by the cunning and sheer numbers of their Turkish adversaries, Nico and Zo (Eros Vlahos, Gregg Chillin) turn to an old enemy for support for the Crusade in this new episode.

Like his predecessors, Ugo firmly supported the crusading movement, and it was from his hands that Frederick II took the cross as a symbol of his intention to lead a crusade.

He died and was buried there, despite his previous excommunication (1188) for failing to support the Third Crusade.

In 1188 King Henry II of England called for a tax to support the Third Crusade, following the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187.

In so doing, John Paul -- whose pontificate has been remarkable in many ways, from his globe-circling pastoral travels, to his support for democratic change in Eastern Europe -- is acknowledging the grim side of the church's past, in eras distinguished by forced conversions, support for the Crusades (whose violence fell on Jews, Muslims and Eastern Orthodox), and creation of the Inquisition.

In calling for a church-wide "purification of memory," John Paul acknowledged the mistakes and cruelty imbedded in church history, including the Inquisition, the forced conversions of native peoples in Africa and Latin America, and support of the Crusades, whose victims included Jews, Muslims and members of the Eastern Orthodox church.