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  • And, The New York Review of Books published a scolding article in 2005 making the case that during the same period that he was making those jokes, Roberts marshaled a crusader's zeal in his efforts to roll back the civil rights gains of the 1960s and '70s -- everything from voting rights to women's rights.

    Pot kettle black - poli 2009

  • But NBC's The Cape is the first TV series to turn that part of the masked crusader's costume into his main source of power.

    The Cape: Not Just an Accessory for Superheroes Anymore 2011

  • Minelli, a bespectacled Swiss lawyer, has helped turn Zurich into a suicide capital with his crusader's zeal for the right of "dignity in death," and the group helps over 100 people each year to kill themselves.

    Human Ashes Found In Lake Zurich: Dozens Of Urns Buried In The Mud 2010

  • By having Robin at Batman's side, but not privy to all the caped crusader's thinking, the comics writers could highlight how good or bad things looked at the moment.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • CHAPTER TWO she had expected someone -- a woman from the village she had just passed through, perhaps -- as faded and neglected as the house to open the door, not this enormous, elegant man with his dark crusader's face, dressed, her quick eye noted, with all the care of a man about to stroll down St James 'to his club, instead of roughing it in this back-of-beyond spot.

    You Don't Take Names Ajay Nair 2010

  • By having Robin at Batman's side, but not privy to all the caped crusader's thinking, the comics writers could highlight how good or bad things looked at the moment.

    Reasons for Robin, #1 and #2 2008

  • Minelli, a bespectacled Swiss lawyer, has helped turn Zurich into a suicide capital with his crusader's zeal for the right of "dignity in death," and the group helps over 100 people each year to kill themselves.

    Human Ashes Found In Lake Zurich: Dozens Of Urns Buried In The Mud 2010

  • I believe the crusader's quote was actually that the "Yuppies are running the whole damn city."

    Sweetest Ta-glue: Putting the "Sade" in "Crusade" BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • They can't wait to pontificate on the virtues of itsy-bitsy, low taxing, low spending government, but then whenever they get their hands on the damn thing they drive up the national debt like Yahweh himself told them it was their personal holy crusader's mission to party hearty at the public's expense (“I command you to choose a hockey mom from amongst your number, and cause her to buildeth a bridge to nowhere!”).

    Printing: Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children 2009

  • They can't wait to pontificate on the virtues of itsy-bitsy, low taxing, low spending government, but then whenever they get their hands on the damn thing they drive up the national debt like Yahweh himself told them it was their personal holy crusader's mission to party hearty at the public's expense ( "I command you to choose a hockey mom from amongst your number, and cause her to buildeth a bridge to nowhere!").

    Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children 2009

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