Crusade for

crusade for (someone or something)

To strongly support someone or something and encourage others to do the same. Many people in our small town are crusading for that big construction project because the closest store right now is 10 miles away.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Crusade for someone or something

to campaign or demonstrate for someone or something. I can hardly crusade for the defeat of a friend. Ed went on a crusade for Eric, hoping to get him elected.
See also: crusade
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • crusade for (someone or something)
  • crusade
  • crusade against
  • crusade against (someone or something)
  • campaign for
  • campaign for (someone or something)
  • campaign
  • campaign against
  • campaign against (someone or something)
  • carry the torch
References in periodicals archive
It is not merely a crusade for right and law against wrong and brute force--though it is all of that--but it is a struggle for the vital interests of this country.' Other than omitting an appeal for divine support, these are all points shared with the earlier crusades and this represents an idealised, secular version of the medieval forerunner.
The call of the Crusades: an idea promoted by Pope Urban II at the end of the 11th century continues to resonate in modern politics. Jonathan Phillips traces the 800-year history of 'Crusade' and its power as a concept that shows no sign of diminishing
Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America.
In his well-researched work, Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ, John G.
Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America
The result was a curious and variable combination of crusade and mission rivaling the complexity of the crusade for Jerusalem.
The popes and the Baltic Crusades, 1147-1254
Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights is the amazing true life story of Clarina I.
Revolutionary Heart
The scheme forms part of Charles Clarke's "crusade for educational opportunity", launched yesterday with promises to help working parents with child care.
The Education Secretary told delegates: "I believe with all my heart that the crusade for genuine educational opportunity throughout life is an inspiring crusade for our party and for our country.
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Bright, 81, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, July 19, 2003, in Orlando, Florida.
Died. William ("Bill") R. Bright
to Our Blessed Mother and the Family Rosary Crusade for for the formation of the public opinion of the Brazilian people in order to have the valor to bring about the revolution of March 31." (53)
Therefore, a Crusade for family prayer is necessarily a Crusade against communism.
Anti-communism, Patrick Peyton, CSC and the C.I.A
Unfortunately for him, the Slavs did not like slaving and drove the Master Race back to Berlin in their own Crusade for a Communist Workers' Paradise.
Eisenhower, as allied Commander-in-Chief, called his World War II campaign against the Fascist powers a Crusade for Democracy.
No Holy War. (Language Corner)
The school board allows elementary, middle and high school students to attend the crusade for 90 minutes a day and distributes permission slips for parents to sign, Tracy said she was once given extra schoolwork as punishment for not attending the crusade.
Appeals Court OKs Student-Led Prayer Plan in Florida
Mr Shiels, who died on Boxing Day, was thought to have been the last living person to have taken part in the famous crusade for jobs.
Tribute to the last Jarrow marcher
De Mezieres wanted the two kings to bury their differences and set out on crusade for the East together.
The vanishing vision: late medieval crusading