Sentences with phrase «crusader from»

The Cathedral has old tombs; a crusader from the 1200s, the Mompesson Tomb - Sir Richard and wife Katherine, died in the 1600s.

How is Boko Haram any different then the xtian crusaders from back in the day?

Pope Boniface VIII issued a bull intended to stop crusaders from sending their bones home for burial.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

Not exact matches

Thus began Price's transformation from classic entrepreneur to crusader against income inequality, set on fundamentally changing the way America does business.

After running for the Alliance leadership as the moderate who would preserve the party from the moral crusaders clustered around Stockwell Day, Harper reached out to social conservatives and took a tough stance against gay marriage.

It was said that «the best of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with swords and horses that has developed into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!

The dominant influences on general understanding in this vein derived from the contrasting romantic visions of the great French popularizer and Crusade enthusiast Joseph - François Michaud (1767 — 1839) and of Walter Scott, whose novels Ivanhoe and The Talisman contrasted the crude violence of the crusaders (especially the Templars) with the sophistication of the Arabic world they invaded.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

«It is true that he sees himself as a crusader and some sort of Templar knight,» said Marcus Buck, a political science professor at Norway's University of Tromso, referring to an online manifesto that Breivik appears to have authored and which draws inspiration from medieval Christian crusaders.

Islam at the beginning held the sword only when it was necessary to survive the wars launched against it by the Pagans of Mecca beside the Persians who then were worshipping fire... Any way remember that we never came closer to the West until the launched their first attacks against Muslims by the crusaders that came from the west towards Jerusalem... Such acts has drove Islam to adopt the policy that says «Attack is the best means of defense» to push the crusaders further back.

That is why the crusades, despite their failure, can be considered one of the outstanding achievements of the medieval Church... As long as Christianity endures on earth, as long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribed by the crusaders with their blood.

Peter starts his own church where antisemitism is taught and crusaders kill nonbelievers causing others to convert saving them from the fires of hell.

Details of that backstory emerge slowly during several days of sightseeing that include contemplation of Hieronymus Bosch's Last Judgment and Bruges's most important relic, a phial of the congealed blood of Christ brought back to Bruges from the Holy Land by a local 12th century crusader; as well as varieties of self - destructive behavior that betray in different ways Ray's internal anguish.

Guess old Islam was the first to be a cause for your unity from the dates of the crusaders... Then in modern history there came the «Nazi's» then came the «Communists» but today you have the «New Islam»... they were those who united you and got you to abolish slavery and made of you equal as it is today in Black and White!?

followers of Jesus will be beheaded, and praise those that die for his sake, not the churches sake... we live in a world of half truths, scriptures stolen from the gospel by crusaders and power hungry men, he'll bent on u's not knowing our true father..

Thus the dream of today's young American man, reared in the religion of the gridiron, is not very different from that of the young Roman legionnaire or the young medieval crusader or, more important, of the young European immigrant to the new world, his own ancestor.

Characterizing Giglio as an anti-gay crusader based on a single video from twenty years ago seems unfair, especially when he has spent so little time addressing this in his ministry.

That is why the crusades, despite their failure, can be considered one of the outstanding achievements of the medieval Church... As long as Christianity endures on earth, as long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribedby the crusaders with their blood.

Standing O from this blogger and lunch reform crusader!

Schneiderman's swift fall from grace was shocking because of his legacy as a crusader for women's rights.

If Spitzer had come to Albany as a crusader, cleaning out the ethically compromised and ridding the state of the Republicans who could slow his agenda, Cuomo signaled from the start that he was willing to work with the powers that be, so long as their powers didn't get in his way.

And voters should know that he is far from the liberal crusader some of his critics, then and now, hard - line ideologues themselves, make him out to be.

Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State, CP Donald Awunah who made the disclosure in Yenagoa on Tuesday, used the occasion to commend IGP Idris as a courageous apostle of democratic Policing who has ensured a paradigm shift from reactionary - traditional policing, to a driver of the «change» mantra in Police and a crusader in Police reforms.

Valerie, in a lengthy article full of barbs targeted at both the former President Rawlings and Martin Amidu asked the former to resign from the party because he had «become a so - called crusader, sinking lower and...

Valerie, in an article on Wednesday asked Martin Amidu to resign from the party because he had «become a so - called crusader, sinking lower and lower in the NDC as...

Valerie, in an article on Wednesday asked Martin Amidu to resign from the party because he had «become a so - called crusader, sinking lower and lower in the NDC as he seems to rise higher in the NPP.»

Estimates of the carbon footprint vary wildly, but Christopher Goodall, a businessman turned climate crusader who calculated the impact of everything from miniature refrigerators to vacation travel for his book How to Live a Low - Carbon Life (Earthscan, 2007), puts it at three pounds of CO2 per pound of cotton.

The large number of abnormalities appearing so soon after the accident «would indicate that these children almost certainly received a very high dose of thyroid radiation from inhaled and ingested radioactive iodine,» antinuclear crusader Helen Caldicott wrote in a post on her homepage.

Anti-vaccine crusaders seized on his association with it to imply that his advocacy stems from his financial interest in vaccines and ties to pharmaceutical companies.

Cancer crusaders: Awards from Johnson Cancer Research Center help undergraduates join fight against cancer

Vani shares her own story and health journey from being an over-stressed and over-worked corporate employee with a poor diet to being a crusader for real food.

From the outside, this tale of two elementary - aged friends who convert their mean principle into an underwear - clad caped crusader in order to fight a villain known as Professor Poopypants seems like a mindless onslaught of potty humor.

Taking footage from Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and putting it through the filter of Edgar Wright's frenetic Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, the results show that there's a lot of unexpected joy and lightness in Nolan's otherwise grim and gritty take on the caped crusader.

A few characters, like Skeeter's ailing mother (Allison Janney), are given a trajectory from racial obliviousness to semi-enlightenment, but for the most part, whites in this movie are either pure - of - heart crusaders or sneering bigots.

Contrast this with one of last night's late - night picks, In Search Of The Ultra Sex (C --RRB-, a collage of scenes from»70s,»80s, and»90s pornos (and, uh, Samurai Cop) combined to produce a very, very loose narrative about a team of galactic crusaders sent to find something called «the ultra sex» and cure the plague of horniness that has gripped mankind.

Anyway, superhero team - ups are all the rage these days, so it was inevitable that some bright spark would think of putting the most recent caped crusader, Henry Cavill from «Man of Steel», up against the reigning Dark Knight.

In the scene that Will Smith will be most remembered for from this biopic / drama, his Dr. Bennet Omalu (a Pathologist from Africa who comes to America and becomes a crusader in the area of traumatic head injuries in football) repeatedly asks a reluctant colleague to «Tell the Truth!»

Hello from Los Angeles, where we're getting to know the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, taking note of Guild nominations for some caped crusaders (hi there, Wonder Woman!)

«He was an uncompromising crusader who lifted himself up from humble beginnings to become, for a time, one of the most celebrated men in America,» narrator Keith David says while setting the tone for «Jackie Robinson.

A rumpled Owen is Salinger, some kind of ill - defined crusader for justice with a badge from Interpol and a dark past from Syd Field, while Watts as ADA Elly, who spends her first scene with a Boston / Newark accent and the rest with her standard - issue Yank.

While weakened from exposure to kryptonite, Superman is brutally beaten by Lex's henchmen who also hold the caped crusader's face under water and push him to the edge of a cliff.

From science documentaries to films involving a certain caped crusader, Morgan Freeman has seemingly done it all and shows no signs of slowing down.

But on other controversial issues, he was often a lone crusader who failed to win critical support from the school board.

From that position, she has become one of the country's most influential crusaders at a turning point for charter schooling.

From then on, Lin became a crusader for higher - educational opportunities for women and also decided to devote himself to battling for social justice.

Renard, heir to Ravenstow, is a crusader in Antioch, a place far removed from the cold Welsh Marches of his birth.

His dissections of the dumbing down of food TV, the sellouts by big - name chefs who will endorse anything, and his reduction of Alice Waters from an icon to a clueless and naïve crusader for locally produced, organically grown lunches for inner - city kids are still as hilarious, as scatological and as spot - on as ever.

Michele Lazarow — a Hallandale Beach city commissioner and activist who has helped pass numerous laws across Florida preventing pet stories from selling dogs that come from puppy mills — recounts the dreadful experience she had in 2004 after buying her dog, Alfie, from a pet store, which misrepresented where the dog had come from, thereby launching Lazarow on the path of crusader to make such transactions illegal.