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The report challenges the core principles of a faith-driven administration and of a president whose political gospel led him to a sharp departure from the culture of conflict resolution in favor of a crusade based on raw power.
Yet the anti-Obamacare crusade has just been dealt a crushing blow, owing to the refusal of some Republican senators to vote for the replacement legislation.
The problem with the US drive to have key stakeholders join its anti-Iran crusade is that some of them live in neighborhoods where Iran is an important factor.
They were brutally suppressed, but the sanctions nonetheless provoked an internal battle within Qadaffi’s coterie that pitted hard liners committed to the anti-Western crusade against pragmatists who promoted integration into the global economy.
Sanusi’s crusade began with allegations that major government bodies were staffed by corrupt and incompetent officials.
That is a path in which Putin clearly has no interest, as he leads Russia’s latest crusade, after its 2008 war with Georgia, to recover a part of its lost empire.
His career as a union leader took him away from agriculture and into politics, where he stood out for his criticism of the United States, whose anti-drug crusade meant the eradication of a cash crop for poor peasants.
The real conflict ignited by the terrorist attacks is not between Islam and an American-led, Judeo-Christian "crusade."
So the "Solidarity" movement in Poland was understood rather in terms of civic protest rather than as a crusade of collective moral action.
In India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who once enjoyed a strong reputation for integrity and intelligence, has been similarly paralyzed, acting erratically in the face of an equally demagogic populist movement – the anti-graft crusade led by a fasting activist, Anna Hazare – which just ended in a frantic and uneasy compromise.
He mounted an energetic and creative crusade.
Moreover, combating climate change must again become a moral crusade, which entails appealing to people’s emotions.
The Republican-backed crusade against a key agreement negotiated by a Democratic president, with his party’s overwhelming support, has threatened the bipartisan foundations of Israel’s cause in America.
Putin sees his own crusade to save Russia from disintegration and separatism as similar to Alexander’s.
Consider, for example, the League’s international agenda, which advocates a crusade against immigration and a return to more traditional values.
Trump, for his part, has made freeing the pastor a personal crusade, most likely as a sop to his evangelical base in the run-up to the US midterm elections this November.
Ever since September 11, 2001, the United States has been engaged in a crusade against the forces of evil in the Muslim world.
Instead of focusing the Bank’s attention on helping the poorest countries to improve their infrastructure, he launched a crusade against corruption.
Their answer is a revived Western world, led by the United States, engaged in an armed crusade for democracy.
Aware of this, the “nationalist international” driven by US President Donald Trump and his ideological fellow travelers has mobilized anxiety and alienation to launch a (somewhat paradoxical) crusade to globalize their particular anti-globalization discourse.
Spooked by a perception that the Western powers had overreached in Libya by stretching a limited mandate to protect civilians into a regime-change crusade, and seeing another slippery slope in Syria, the Security Council failed even to condemn the regime.
The real problem, however, is that officials like Moro have transformed judicial action against corruption into a moral and political crusade, for which they are willing to bend the law.
That has also been the result of Bush’s ill-conceived democracy crusade in the Arab world.
It wouldn’t be the first time a politician used a domestic political crusade or a foreign policy adventure to divert attention from his economic failures.
Both have reaffirmed their commitment to reducing carbon dioxide emissions under the Paris accord, and both object to Trump’s obstructive crusade on behalf of the coal industry.
In the rest of the continent, the other left - the one deemed reliable by Wall Street and London bankers - will not join Chavez’s postures, but neither will it join a crusade to unseat him.
On global issues, it has not backed the US in the Iraq war, it does not tolerate American disdain for multilateralism and it is unwilling to join the anti-terror crusade.
And make no mistake: even if the ISIS-associated international attacks seem random, the group’s global crusade does have a strategic logic.
Turnbull, the urbane but arrogant former journalist, lawyer, and investment banker, whose deposition of Abbott in 2015 triggered a crusade of sustained internal hatred which finally drove his own ouster last week, was initially popular – and apparently as liberal in his instincts as Abbott was reactionary.
Perhaps the most famous investigating magistrate of all, Spain’s Baltasar Garzon, is usually portrayed as waging a borderless crusade for justice.
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