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How to use the word Crusades in a Sentence?

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Mr. Rogan's priority has always been engaging in these national partisan ideological crusades and ignoring the business at home in the district. And I don't think people value that.

Shifty Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We know that Richard the Lionheart went to fight in the Crusades, but we dont know much about the ordinary soldiers who lived and died there, and these ancient samples give us insights into that.

Chris Tyler-Smith

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Our findings give us an unprecedented view of the ancestry of the people who fought in the Crusader army. And it wasn't just Europeans, we see this exceptional genetic diversity in the Near East during medieval times, with Europeans, Near Easterners, and mixed individuals fighting in the Crusades and living and dying side by side.

Marc Haber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Jerusalem was at the forefront of the medieval world at the time of the Crusades.

Ilya Berkovich

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Billy Graham was, in my view, the most important evangelist since the Apostle Paul. Billy Graham preached Christ, not himself, not politics, not prosperity, what Billy Graham taught us is all summed up in the invitation hymn sing at Billy Graham crusades across the nation : ‘ Just as I am, without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me, ’.

Russell Moore

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He was impressed by the level of spirituality within the Muslim community and saw something he'd never seen before, it was a transformative experience, and he came back completely against the Crusades.

Imam Mohamad Bashar Arafat

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would like Ukraine to lead the crusades, our mission is not only to kick out the occupiers, but also revenge. Moscow must burn.

Dmytro Korchynsky

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Remember that during the crusades and the inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ, in our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. ...So this is not unique to one group or one religion.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ, in our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. Michelle and I returned from India — an incredible, beautiful country, full of magnificent diversity — but a place where, in past years, religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs — acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhiji, the person who helped to liberate that nation.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The triumphs of the crusades were the triumphs of faith. But faith without wisdom is a dangerous thing.

Steven Runciman

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.

Med Jones

added by seattle29
13 years ago

Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

James Burke

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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