Sentences with phrase «crusader in»

It looks a lot like we have someone who is not merely reluctant to commit our nation to action on climate, we have a crusader in The Lodge, who is determined to prevent it.

Kerry has also been a long - time crusader in the effort to try to stop global warming.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Meet Heroina, the latest — and surely cuddliest — crusader in the U.S. - backed war on drugs.

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

The Dark Knight filmmaker, who was one of the producers and writers on the film, is said to be keen for the Hunger Games actor to play the caped crusader in the next instalment, which would pit Bruce Wayne against Clark Kent.

That seemed to be the case for Matthew McConaughey, who won the first of what could well be multiple acting wins for his role as an unlikely AIDS crusader in «The Dallas Buyers Club»; the prize gave him an early - season edge over «12 Years A Slave's» Chiwetel Ejiofor and other contenders.

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!»

Lego Michael Knight, a lone crusader in a dangerous world.

Also straddling big and small screens was Mark Ruffalo, up for best supporting actor in Foxcatcher and the leading actor in a miniseries award as an AIDS crusader in HBO's The Normal Heart.

As Rose McGowan, a vocal crusader in the sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein told Dazed, «a lot of people are benefitting off us being quiet.»

Description: Following Val Kilmer's portrayal of the caped crusader in Batman Forever, the fourth Batman feature stars George Clooney under the pointy - eared cowl, with Chris O'Donnell returning as Robin the Boy Wonder.

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.

New York State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, who's a former federal prosecutor, issued a statement, calling Bharara a «crusader in the fight against political corruption.»

Davis, who had become a leading crusader in the Democratic «war on women,» appears to have failed to win the female vote.

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.

The Post says a reported plea deal between the AG's office and ex-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi gives Cuomo «justified bragging rights as an anti-corruption crusader in his own race for governor.»

He is, as he sees it, a good - government crusader in the mold of Eliot Spitzer.

If I appear to be a crusader in behalf of certain controversial political and economic views, I do so deliberately.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

She was accused by the group, whose named translates as the Group to Support Islam and Muslims, of «preaching Christianity and supporting the crusaders in Mali».

Take Valhalla Rising, which pits Mads Mikkelsen's one - eyed Viking warrior against pagan crusaders in a primordial world conspicuously devoid of women.

These are crusaders in rumpled suits with coffee cups instead of capes, plodding through the boring legwork that comprises so much of real journalism — making lists, finding almanacs in dusty rooms that stink of dead rat, filling out forms at the courthouse, eating leftover pizza in dismally unkempt apartments.

Some of the loudest crusaders in favor of high - stakes testing are parents with students who have disabilities.

Outright and undercover Ram trucks have always been crusaders in pickup innovation.

Princess Lalla Hasna is one of the leading environmental crusaders in Africa.

Princess Lalla Hasna is one of the leading environmental crusaders in Africa.

This reality ought to be enough to stop the anti-fossil fuel (via carbon dioxide emission restrictions) crusaders in their tracks.

Not exact matches

The National Review's criticism of immigration reform apparently doesn't extend to Grover Norquist, the GOP's beloved anti-tax crusader who has spoken out in favor of comprehensive immigration reform.

The self - appointed crusader, for one, would like the world to believe that he is a «dragon slayer,» in Parloff's words, who has set out to expose the dietary shake peddler as a predatory scammer.

By day an office - bound Coral Springs insurance and financial adviser specializing in life, health and risk management, Schachter is not a natural crusader.

that is not the case of the crusaders, the inquisition, the talibans and the suicid bombers who blow themselves in the name of god

So in the example of the crusader, it is meant as a way of opening up a discussion about what Christ's lordship should look like in faithful practice assuming that everyone in this conversation is already committed to the truths we all confess in the creeds.

Lindbeck argues that this statement, Christus est Dominus, is not «true» because the action undertaken here is inconsistent with what Lindbeck understands the lordship of Christ to look like in the character of the actions of the crusader.

In the 12th century, the Knights Templar, a group of Christian crusaders, were accused of worshiping Baphomet in their secretive ritualIn the 12th century, the Knights Templar, a group of Christian crusaders, were accused of worshiping Baphomet in their secretive ritualin their secretive rituals.

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 crusaders were fighting a war of man by man in the natural world.

Just like the medieval crusaders, spanish conquestadors, and other similar events in our history to use Gods name in vain.

Almost forty years later, the by - then prominent founder of the Moral Majority and crusader against gay rights inadvertently confirmed the ubiquity of such segregationist thought in Southern white churches when he was asked to comment on his now discarded and discredited opinion.

Of the terrorists he says, «We hope that they are the first martyrs in Islam's battle in this era against the new crusade and Jewish campaign led by the big crusader Bush under the flag of the cross.»

Secular politicians joined the fray when presenting themselves as crusaders against Haredi imposition served their interests, and the media was happy to sensationalize everything in order to sell newspapers and increase television ratings.

They recognized and analyzed the social, intellectual, and emotional role of faith and the Church in shaping crusaders» mentalities, creating a more rounded understanding of motive, incentive, and cultural context.

The French Marxist Claude Cahen's La Syrie du Nord à l'époque des croisades (1940) placed the social and economic setting of the crusader settlements in a fuller and more revealing light, while Joshua Prawer in Israel was examining and undermining the whole basis of the Francophone neocolonial interpretation.

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.

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.

Pope Innocent found it so difficult to maintain an adequate number of troops in Jerusalem that he actually issued a «crusade bull» in December 1198, imposing an annual tax to provide a fund for crusaders who vowed that they would «remain to defend the eastern half for a year or more.»

The crusaders» attack on Islam provided Muslims with a unity of purpose which had evaded them since the death of Muhammad in the seventh century.

In response to the hostile reception in Constantinople, the crusaders set siege to the city, and in April 1204 they plundered iIn response to the hostile reception in Constantinople, the crusaders set siege to the city, and in April 1204 they plundered iin Constantinople, the crusaders set siege to the city, and in April 1204 they plundered iin April 1204 they plundered it.

«When they arrived at Constantinople in 1203, the crusaders expressed genuine surprise at the hostile reception....

The crusaders not only massacred muslims and jews, they kill any christians who dressed wrong, were of the wrong sect, or just got in their way.

The mass murder in Norway last year was carried out by someone who called himself a Christian crusader.