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Outsiders have the luxury of crusading against the status quo.
Anna Politkovskaya, a crusading investigative journalist, was assassinated on Oct.
"She wasn't necessarily crusading for more ethical TV reporting," she added.
Now the crusading anti-hate empire is plagued by internal conflict.
Some crusading journalists write with a scalpel, others with a scythe.
Or should it adopt the crusading mantle of a redeemer nation?
Dow said he felt like a crusading filmmaker getting the true story.
Were you around for my early days as a crusading local newsman?
Imagine a bunch of these running around, crusading to save the planet.
The book is dedicated to his father, Bert, a crusading antitrust lawyer.
Smalls became a crusading state legislator and United States congressman during Reconstruction.
Chicago commemorates a crusading hero who never got the recognition she deserved.
The same crusading spirit has accompanied Petro throughout his four-decade political ascent.
The ongoing PR campaign is also making Cook look like a crusading badass.
Mr Buhari's government has been learning from other crusading countries, such as Georgia.
Carlson and several other opinion hosts on Fox have been crusading against ESPN.
In the late 1980s, crusading against pornography was a top priority for evangelicals.
For all of our crusading, we ignored the biggest story at the school.
Democratic activists seem mostly motivated by anti-Trump sentiment rather than purist crusading.
Paulson won for her portrayal of crusading lawyer Marcia Clark, then advocated for some other crusading lawyers: Any spare money that anyone may have they should donate to the ACLU … to protect the rights and liberties of people across the country.
Duterte said crusading journalists too ran the risk of being killed for exposing wrongdoing.
But his father became a regular contributor, crusading against public corruption and tax increases.
Solomon (Liam James) wants to do crusading student journalism but is frustrated by censorship.
Supporters of the president find the crusading tone of Mr. Greenwald's work especially grating.
That of the crusading judge leading the Petrobras investigation, Sérgio Moro, has been damaged, too.
In the past decade, since he started crusading for jackfruit, awareness seems to have grown.
"Frisky." Her 1977 affair with the "fearless, crusading" Harold Evans, whom she'd one day marry?
For all his crusading against climate change, Gore reeks of this same kind of establishment politics.
Women were leading the anti-war effort as well as crusading for the right to vote.
But Warren has a sterling reputation for crusading against the influence of the wealthy and power.
Republicans wouldn't have taken over the White House and Congress without such a pure, crusading spirit.
Tasso Jereissati said, referring to the team of crusading judges and prosecutors who handle Carwash cases.
She says she will not stop crusading for a better world until the problem is solved.
A crusading former talk show host who helped bring the case to light has fallen silent.
Did a bear rape attack beat out crusading journalists and Imperator Furiosa for the night's biggest prize?
There was a crusading senator on "Rei do Gado" ("The Cattle King"), a ratings monster from 287.
But the crusading Cold Warrior mentality that it reflects thoroughly and durably infiltrated Cold War American society.
But "porn cop" Michael Weinstein has been crusading for restrictions on the already highly self-regulated industry.
The simple story of a crusading leader who will transform a nation rarely works out that way.
But thinking Mr Assad would genuinely campaign against corruption is like imagining Mr Trump crusading for civility.
The most genuinely unpredictable of the four, Stephen Breyer, is basically crusading to eliminate the death penalty already.
His path crossed Buddhists and crusading warriors, the Bedouin and Venetian sailors, ambassadors, monks, sorcerers, and snake charmers.
His characters' irreverent crusading and euphoric protest, even as death looms, are a fitting tribute to such work.
Music's most famous vegan, Morrissey, has a long history of crusading against the meat eaters of the world.
Some justices have criticised what they see as judicial overreach by the crusading federal judge overseeing the investigations.
Even Bob Nygaard, a crusading private investigator with the peculiar specialty of fortunetelling fraud, had little to offer.
A medievalist might sympathize with Crusading Europeans, for example, indeed believing that "Deus Vult" was a righteous motto.
He has chosen Sergio Moro, a crusading judge who led Car Wash, to be Brazil's next Justice Minister.
And that was a new idea that journalists were crusading and cool and played by Robert Redford. Right.
Mr. Greenwald's crusading reporting, and his searing criticism of Mr. Bolsonaro, have made him a darling of leftists.
Crusading state attorneys general use the power to compel production of sensitive information as a painful financial weapon.
A multiple Emmy winner, The Defenders also features an essential performance by E.G. Marshall as a crusading lawyer.
Finally, anti-war campaigners of all stripes should beware of the potential for mission creep in Trump's crusading rhetoric.
We asked four crusading activists to tell us about the organisations they work with and their hopes for 2018.
What hope they have for accountability comes from Douglas Meléndez, the crusading attorney-general who pushed for the trial.
The pick was an unusual one: Much of Lloyd's career has focused on crusading against abortion, not resettling migrants.
Some will star the Lesbian Avengers, the "caped crusading dykes" who abseiled into Parliament and stormed a BBC studio.
The backstory: Erdogan entered Turkish politics in the 1970s, crusading against the establishment and branding himself a people's politician.
He has told friends he recommended firing Preet Bharara because the crusading prosecutor posed a danger to the administration.
Then, in the 1980s, Jörg Haider reinvented it as a crusading populist party with a strong anti-immigration platform.
In 1916, he nominated a crusading antitrust lawyer and architect of the FTC, Louis Brandeis, to the Supreme Court.
If the attorney general would look to the Prohibition years, he might see the futility of crusading against marijuana.
Tony Pro told a series of obscene jokes about Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was crusading against the Mob.
Boston school official Louise Day Hicks had become a national figure by then, crusading against busing children to integrate schools.
One of the high-profile people burned by Theranos bullshit was Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, a crusading anti-regulation conservative.
At least one prolific bartender and author, Jacob Grier, is crusading to change the conversation away from even mentioning gin.
The scene that day called for a crusading Lady Cornelia Showalter on a mission to save starving residents of Chinatown.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached, into a crusading anti-hate empire dedicated to fighting extremism in the United States.
There are classified memos, abruptly departing FBI agents and crusading congressmen -- all tied to the unfolding Russia probe -- roiling Washington.
The group established itself as a crusading force by fighting racism and exposing extremist groups, taking many cases pro bono.
President Trump is now in his 10th week of crusading against kneeling NFL players and the league for allowing the practice.
And then you meet everyone else: Atlas, crusading everyman; Sander Cohen, amoral artist; Tennenbaum, repentant super scientist; Suchong, unrepentant super scientist.
A crusading Bernie Sanders now faces off again against a more mainstream candidate, one with flaws that give many voters pause.
With her latest investigation into the president's wedding, the crusading journalist has proved she remains a thorn in the president's side.
We were not known in the 1920s as a crusading, this-story-will-bust-the-town-wide-open kind of newspaper.
Bruce E. Cain, a professor of political science at Stanford University, noted that Governor Brown was no stranger to environmental crusading.
His two indictments, plus two related ongoing cases, should land with Sérgio Moro, the crusading federal judge who oversees the Petrobras probe.
Scientists fighting against restrictions on their profession used the language of crusading anti-Communism, defining their work as apolitical and therefore free.
She's living there temporarily while filming "Doubt," a new legal drama in which she stars as a crusading, Yale-educated, transgender lawyer.
" The crusading television news pioneer Ed Murrow made the case in words that still resonate across our republic: "Dissent is not disloyalty.
The hero of "Devil in the Grove" was a youngish Thurgood Marshall, the cagey grumpus in his days as a crusading lawyer.
In the attorney's life, you can see the strange ease with which a sybaritic con man fit in with crusading social reactionaries.
The story's elements included an extramarital affair, family betrayal, stolen nudes, and the crusading reporting of the Washington Post, which Bezos owns.
"20/20" reports on dissension within the Church of Scientology — from those who practice outside its confines to those crusading against it.
Over the past month, Chelsea Clinton has undoubtedly found her voice on Twitter, crusading against the policies of President Trump at every turn.
Will Smith stars as a crusading doctor who takes on professional football for its indifference to the health and safety of its players.
Lula's case will go before crusading anti-corruption Judge Sergio Moro, who has jailed dozens of executives and others involved in the scheme.
His case was instead sent to crusading anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro, who has been the driving force behind Brazil's fight against graft.
The public generally acknowledges and disapproves of the media's ideological crusading, pursuit of viral nonsense from social media platforms, and pack-attack tendencies.
Reports indicate, however, that most (maybe all) of these crusading advertisers simply had their FNC ads moved to other shows on the channel.
As the Apostle Paul was fond of saying, the faith of the ardent, crusading believer rests in the evidence of things not seen.
Mr. Bharara was the crusading United States attorney for the Southern District of New York who prosecuted both Mr. Rajaratnam and Mr. Gupta.
Superintendent Anwar's crusading style and triumphant announcements of terrorists killed or arrested had made him a regular on Karachi television over the years.
The crusading journalists of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune, where Lou Grant was the city editor, were mostly high-spirited and sometimes volatile.
So was another crusading Lingayat, the journalist Gauri Lankesh, who in August published an essay arguing that Lingayatism should be considered a distinct faith.
That has helped give an opening to Moore, a former judge who has made guns and God central to his crusading anti-establishment campaign.
In keeping with an innovative personality that shook up the sometimes stuffy world of the law, the crusading prosecutor, 48, announced his exit on Twitter.
With Burke Harris crusading from the surgeon general post, Gortney says, he and fellow advocates across the country are hoping California can provide a beacon.
A U.N.-sponsored commission in Guatemala has been a key driver of that and other corruption investigations, along with the country&aposs crusading top prosecutor.
Her guide is another crusading misfit, Sarah Belal, whom she introduces with great charm ("one of Pakistan's least successful lawyers…unemployed, depressed" and yet glamorous).
Lloyd, who's spent much of his career crusading against abortion, has faced the glare of the spotlight multiple times during his tenure heading the ORR.
So did Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the crusading Flint pediatrician who first fought city officials to prove that lead levels in Flint were dangerously high.
Daniel Craig stars as a crusading Swedish journalist hired by a wealthy industrialist (Christopher Plummer) to investigate the disappearance of his niece 40 years earlier.
Greider catches some of the crusading tenor of the Trump campaign, but does not take into account the fact that Clinton won the popular vote.
So argued the 20th century's greatest originalist and the Warren court's driving force — the crusading liberal justice Hugo Black, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Thomas E. Dewey made his name as a crusading prosecutor pursuing organized crime before running for governor in 1938, winning the office four years later.
There is a deep well of affection and nostalgia for this version of Sessions among Alabama primary voters — the pre-recusal Sessions, the crusading conservative senator.
Trump's brash and disruptive style -- and, to a lesser degree, anti-establishment crusading -- also appear to be well suited to the mood of the current electorate.
"We knew that we wanted to be married," says Hargitay, 55, longtime star of Law & Order: SVU, on which she plays the crusading Lieutenant Olivia Benson.
Meanwhile, conservative-leaning folks are holding the whole Oscars saga up as evidence that liberals are overreacting, and actually doing harm with their social justice crusading.
This time, Pretor-Pinney — previously cast as a charming English eccentric with a funny website — was presented as the crusading figurehead of a populist meteorological revolt.
Lula's fate is now in the hands of crusading anti-corruption Judge Sergio Moro, who has until Monday to decide whether to indict the former president.
President-elect Donald Trump wasn't specifically mentioned — although Cuomo and fellow democrat New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have been crusading against Trump since he won.
The story of DuPont's polluting problems was also told in a gripping piece in The New York Times Magazine in January, focused on a crusading lawyer.
The success of "Conflict of Interest" (1976), Mr. Whitten's novel about a crusading reporter, led him to shift to a part-time role with the column.
It would be easy to dismiss this film as sweet-natured with hints of biting comedy and a crusading, campaigning message that is equally relevant today.
People will know you're on the war-path against them not only because you have a big mouth, but because you're expert at crusading against people.
The crusading lawyer has been a popular political figure for centuries, and presidents dating back to John Adams gained fame in the courtroom before winning office.
This is, notably, the second Bannon documentary released this year, following "The Brink," a fly-on-the-wall look at his crusading efforts around the globe.
It would be better for both if Mr. Osborne made a clean break from politics and became a great crusading editor on behalf of the people.
She is an amazing amalgam of different elements — highly educated elite meritocrat, Oakland street fighter, crusading, rough-elbow prosecutor, canny machine pol and telegenic rhetorical brawler.
SAO PAULO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Brazil's iconic former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will stand trial on corruption charges, a crusading federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
The subject of their adulation is not a rock star or a crusading politician but Milo Yiannopoulos, 32, an outspoken editor for the far-right Breitbart News.
After crusading for various free speech issues in schools, the Temple is now campaigning to end corporal punishment in public schools by launching the Protect Children Project.
Anti-debt crusading Republican Alan Simpson sounded off on President Donald Trump's spending plans Wednesday, saying the president can't pay for his initiatives without making unpopular cuts.
Activist Bill Downing has spent nearly three decades crusading for relaxed cannabis laws and is greeting the voter-approved measure with a mix of satisfaction and trepidation.
Bolsonaro also said he wants to nominate the crusading anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro to be his justice minister or the newest member of the Supreme Court.
They were created in 1929 to defend the industry against bad press, with sex scandals and on-screen violence causing a stir among the era's crusading moralists.
"The Gentleman," despite its somewhat melodramatic plot about a crusading young journalist triumphing over vicious opposition in a small town, is an early venture into descriptive realism.
Mr. Shelby has stood firm, endearing him to conservative anti-government groups crusading to close the bank — and known to spend freely against politicians who cross them.
Kim, on the other hand, has been separated from her father since 2008, when she left the North, and has a bit more of a crusading air.
We first meet Anthony at home with her loyal companion, called Anne, but also see her in action crusading for women's rights and debating patronizing male politicians.
Public Sacrifice There are untold numbers of crusading Roman Catholics in the annals of world history, but there probably has never been one quite like Mary Brunson.
Woodley livestreamed her arrest to her public Facebook page to bring attention to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a billion dollar project that she has passionately been crusading against.
Authorities suspect there are militant elements in their teachings, and the minister noted that they preach concepts such as crusading and martyrdom — "deviant" concepts that pose security risks.
Under Mr. Rich, the paper is showing some signs of moving in a new direction, or rather an old one, returning to its roots as a crusading tabloid.
Cabral and his wife are already facing a separate trial on graft charges before Brazil's crusading anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro, a trial set to open next month.
Then, in 2014, crusading prosecutors revealed that the state-owned oil company, Petrobras, had funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to officials and parties in exchange for contracts.
Corruption has flown up policy agendas, thanks to the work such crusading groups have done to reveal the extent of hidden offshore wealth to angry voters facing austerity.
The victory had its roots in a crusading press, in resolute reporters and their papers standing up to parochial, self-interested cries of witch hunts and fake news.
He was attorney general until he resigned in September 1964, assuming the role of crusading senator from New York, a reluctantly bitter beneficiary of the Lyndon Johnson landslide.
Just imagine that crusading ESOP candidate putting a simple pair of questions to the electorate: What if you had an ownership stake in the company you work for?
Henry's a black man raised by a white family, who became a crusading criminal defense lawyer after he himself was (perhaps) wrongly accused of killing his adoptive father.
Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will stand trial on corruption charges, a crusading federal judge ruled on Tuesday, adding more turbulence to the country's political landscape.
An ambiguous ending to the story of three intellectually curious children who spent three seasons crusading against a cabal of dummies wouldn't feel satisfying now, to us, as adults.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A former governor of Rio de Janeiro state will face trial on corruption and money laundering charges, a crusading anti-graft judge ruled on Friday.
There was always, after all, something inherently weird about a man who requires nondisclosure agreements from every single campaign volunteer crusading as a defender of open and honest discourse.
That case has now been handed over to Sérgio Moro, the crusading federal judge overseeing the Petrobras probe (not to be confused with the one who blocked Lula's appointment).
He is a crusading ideologue who has shown a willingness to disregard scientific expertise and manipulate conclusions reached by dedicated career staff to serve his pre-determined policy preferences.
Today, Mariska Hargitay plays TV's longest-running character, the crusading Lieutenant Olivia Benson, on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — but even she's experienced a few setbacks in her career.
Republicans had repeatedly attacked Warren as a wealthy elitist, to no effect; Democrats, who first met Warren as a crusading anti-Wall Street professor, had never heard this before.
Even if Mr. da Silva wins the appeal, he said, the case adds to the sense that Brazil's crusading judiciary has changed the rules of the game for politicians.
In the absence of any meaningful government action, perhaps a crusading billionaire could put all the money in his estate toward capturing CO₂ and stashing it in the earth.
Last Thursday evening on his Fox News program Tucker Carlson accused mainstream journalists of crusading for Jones' banishment from the platforms, a move he considers an attack on free speech.
Still, the past few weeks have been reminiscent of Bannon's Breitbart of yore — a crusading, unyielding site taking on the Republican establishment and championing candidates seeking to topple GOP incumbents.
Her crowning achievement was crusading to prevent the Equal Rights Amendment from being added to the U.S. Constitution and it made Schlafly a leader in the modern American conservative movement.
Steady questioning by crusading Judge Sergio Moro on Wednesday uncovered no bombshell revelations to shake supporters' steadfast belief that Lula is innocent and the victim of a political witch hunt.
The group included Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the crusading grande dame of Everglades conservation; Native American tribes; hunters; newly formed environmental groups, and ultimately the administration of President Richard M. Nixon.
The suit, which failed, got Evy and Joseph written out of the old man's will but in the process made Evy's career; she's now a crusading New York City councilwoman.
He was, to my mind, an ideal Republican candidate: a conservative Midwestern governor with a crusading political biography, access to big donors and a record unspoiled by service in Washington.
And yet "Billions" is still the story of the hedge-fund billionaire Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), the crafty, crusading prosecutor out to take him down.
Ms. Pelosi's is a cautious prescription — one that, in addition to frustrating the less patient elements of her party, clashes with her longstanding image as a crusading San Francisco liberal.
Dr. Needleman was working at a community psychiatric clinic in North Philadelphia after medical school when he met a young man who would become a touchstone for a crusading career.
Emma Banville (Helen McCrory), a crusading lawyer, uncovers what appears, in the three episodes available for review, to be a cover-up involving a murder and an American air base.
President Trump could appoint a firebrand conservative who would pick up where Justice Antonin Scalia left off, crusading to strike down assault weapons bans at the state and local level.
Maria Ressa, Philippine Journalist Critical of Rodrigo Duterte, Is Arrested Maria Ressa, a crusading pro-democracy journalist in the Philippines, has been arrested on trumped-up charges by the Duterte regime.
Nothing is what it seems in the exhibition by Ms. Poitras, the crusading journalist and filmmaker made famous (or notorious) by her association with the former government contractor Edward J. Snowden.
In Europe, factions long shut out of the mainstream have thrived on Facebook and started winning elections by crusading against immigration and the power of Brussels, the EU's de facto capital.
He was convicted on the first charge—that he received a beachside flat in return for facilitating a contract after his presidency had ended—by Sérgio Moro, a crusading young judge.
Mr. Avenatti, who spent much of 2018 crusading against Mr. Trump on cable news shows and teasing a presidential run of his own, has called the cases against him politically motivated.
Whether in the United States or even the Soviet Union, their proper ethic was realistic, conservative and prudent, more wary of going to war than their reckless or crusading civilian masters.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will stand trial on corruption charges, a crusading federal judge ruled on Tuesday, adding more turbulence to the country's political landscape.
Apparently Donald Trump isn't too busy crusading against windmills and picking posthumous beefs with former first ladies to start plotting ways to cash in on his presidency once he's out of office.
Having overcome poverty and discrimination to reach the pinnacle of the legal profession, Mr. Barbosa became a crusading figure in the fight against corruption, which is the top concern among Brazilian voters.
And I liked being around her, and I felt a similarity to her, in that I am a very accomplished legal scholar and have spent my life crusading for the middle class.
Damian Lewis is a hedge fund titan, and Paul Giamatti is his nemesis, a United States attorney crusading against corruption, in this series, whose creators include Andrew Ross Sorkin of The Times.
Now on Blu-ray, it stars John Forsyth as a crusading journalist pitted against the forces of organized crime and features a cameo appearance by the mob-battling Senator Estes Kefauver himself.
If it takes a perfect storm to dislodge a congressional leader, then Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and her crusading campaign about class, race, gender, age, absenteeism and ideology proved to be just that.
She went on to lead the affiliate for almost four decades, overhauling it into a crusading organization that broadened its scope beyond civil liberties to encompass matters of racial and economic justice.
Trump has tried to spin these two events into some kind of scandal in which the elder Biden was working to protect the company that employed his son from a crusading prosecutor.
Diarmuid de Faoite plays Cathal, a professed crusading journalist who hacks telephones and isn't overly concerned with the safety of others, including that of his family, if it means getting the story.
Yiannopoulos, a senior editor at the conservative Breitbart News, is no stranger to controversy, but the CPAC's recent embrace of the crusading anti-political correctness provocateur has been discomfiting to some conservatives.
But it falls well short of the crusading vision of government intervention ascendant in the Democratic Party through the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who won the party's New Hampshire primary.
Investigators do not allege the bribes have a connection to any projects directly involving Bannon, but they appear to be exactly the kind of "crony capitalism" that Bannon claims to be crusading against.
If the court had allowed Mr. da Silva to remain free, it would have enraged the crusading prosecutors and judges who have tried since 2014 to stamp out Brazil's entrenched culture of graft.
As the title suggests Taberski, a friend of Simmons, was determined to find out why his fitness-crusading friend retreated into his Hollywood mansion three years ago, never to be seen from again.
Transition Briefing President-elect Donald J. Trump wants to keep New York's crusading United States attorney on board, and is reportedly eyeing the professional wrestling impresario Linda McMahon for the Small Business Administration.
The best-case scenario is another Mike Pompeo, a doctrinaire crusading conservative with a light resume and a very brown nose who has quietly expanded his State Department portfolio beyond its normal scope.
In the years that followed, Mr. McCain reinvented himself as a scourge of special interests, crusading for stricter ethics and campaign finance rules, a man of honor chastened by a brush with shame.
It is a way of illustrating that the fiery crucible is where the weapons of resistance are forged; it is where the mettle of those crusading for justice, equality and progress are tested.
Mr. Pashinyan, a former crusading journalist and opposition leader, had led the massive protests against the government in April, which culminated in the resignation of the former president and prime minister, Serzh Sargsyan.
Bilott's crusading creates trouble at work, where his boss (Tim Robbins) is sympathetic, but not fully supportive; and at home, where his wife (Anne Hathaway worries about Bilott endangering the family's financial stability.
Crusading for Mr. Trump's impeachment, Mr. Steyer used his personal advocacy group to apply pressure on powerful House committee chairmen, like Representatives Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts and Jerrold Nadler of New York.
Crusading for Mr. Trump's impeachment, Mr. Steyer used his personal advocacy group to apply pressure on powerful House committee chairmen, like Representatives Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts and Jerrold Nadler of New York.
It's just this kind of Quixotic crusading against Trump that's allowed him to become the first Republican presidential candidate since Teddy Roosevelt to make a believable stand against the moneyed interests in this country.
When Paul Giamatti is first seen in the new Showtime drama "Billions," his character, a crusading United States attorney named Chuck Rhoades, has been bound and gagged as part of a sadomasochistic sex act.
The actor was initially made aware of Mukuta's grave condition via a Tweet from his nurses at Atlanta Hospice, which actor Zachary Levi saw and retweeted with hope for some "caped crusading" from Affleck.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday that he wants to nominate crusading anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro to either the Supreme Court or to serve as his justice minister.
Ever since crusading lawyer Eliot Spitzer shook it up in 1999, the office of New York attorney general has been a place where ambitious politicians go to take on big public and private projects.
In foreign policy, Bushism began with the promise of restraint but ultimately came to mean hawkishness shot through with Wilsonian idealism, a vision of a crusading America whose interests and values were perfectly aligned.
World Briefing Brazil's highest court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal, ruled Thursday that a federal investigation into the finances of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should be removed from a crusading anticorruption judge.
He has elevated Mizrahi lawmakers to prominent posts, including some who are lightning rods for the left, like his culture minister, Miri Regev, best known for crusading against artists she sees as anti-Israel.
The appointment would have given Lula some immunity from prosecution by crusading anti-corruption lower court Judge Sergio Moro because ministers and elected officials can only be tried by the Supreme Court in Brazil.
Jamie's got nothing but love for crusading lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and whose 2014 memoir is the basis of the critically-acclaimed film starring Jamie and Michael B. Jordan.
This lawsuit might eventually cause one company to clean up its act, but short of millions of crusading Kathleens and court cases, how are we going to clean up the entire plastic-pushing industry?
But leaders of Brazil's groundbreaking anti-corruption drive, including the crusading Judge Sergio Moro who jailed Lula this month, told Reuters that overturning the decision would seriously damage the country's sweeping battle against graft.
Chile long grappled with the task of bringing to justice the perpetrators of crimes committed in that era but crusading judges and more sympathetic authorities have led to an increase in convictions in recent years.
Last year, the police raided the offices of the anticorruption commission, the license of a crusading news organization was suspended and Mr. Najib purged his deputy prime minister, who had been pressing for further investigations.
On June 28th Mr Temer announced that Raquel Dodge, a deputy chief prosecutor, would be replacing Mr Janot when his term ends in September; they will be hoping that she takes a less crusading approach.
Chile long grappled with the task of bringing to justice the perpetrators of crimes committed in that era, and crusading judges and more sympathetic authorities have led to an increase in convictions in recent years.
And while the two of us do not always agree on these issues, we are clear that a non-ideological libertarian neutral is far superior to the crusading progressive that Clinton has promised to be.
Congress has rejected most of the constitutional reforms suggested by a civil-society coalition, and the current president, Jimmy Morales, has tried to oust CICIG's crusading commissioner, Iván Velásquez (pictured above: a protest against him).
Another factor in shifting perspectives was last month's independent veterans' committee vote to enshrine former MLB commissioner Bud Selig, who presided over the so-called "Steroids Era" before crusading for a strict anti-doping policy.
"I should be shocked by the findings of EWG's report, but I am not," Erin Brockovich, the crusading environmental legal clerk and inspiration for the 2000 film starring Julia Roberts, said in a statement Tuesday.
However, this special report will argue that, in the longer term, online crusading and organising will turn out to matter less to politics in the digital age than harnessing those ever-growing piles of data.
But if Bannon sticks around, he is likely to continue crusading for the proposal, even if it draws the ire of fiscal conservatives who have long been reluctant to back major federal spending on transportation.
A crusading federal judge, Sergio Moro, had been in charge of the case against Mr. da Silva, the most powerful figure in the governing Workers' Party and, until recently, a popular and revered figure here.
The popularity of works like "Monument to a Peasant" gave Mr. Rycharski the confidence to explore his gay identity in art, with crusading works that put the church's rejection of gay Catholics in the spotlight.
As the opposition leader crusading to win back the House, Pelosi wants to do nothing to undercut the Democrats' most trenchant campaign argument: that the Republicans are simply too dysfunctional to govern the country effectively.
As Rousseff swore Lula into office, she strongly criticized the release on Wednesday of a taped telephone conversation between them that was made public by Sergio Moro, the crusading federal judge overseeing the Petrobras investigation.
Considering how utterly noxious her husband is, though, it's not easy to think of something that wouldn't elicit accusations of hypocrisy—crusading for any positive societal change would probably go against the president's platform or proclivities.
On foreign policy, too, Cruz's Jacksonian, "bomb 'em all" positioning on the Middle East seems more in tune with the party's post-Iraq war mood than Rubio's tendency toward a George W. Bush-style crusading idealism.
Prosecutors, federal police and crusading federal Judge Sergio Moro have worked out of Curitiba to uncover a vast cartel of construction firms that conspired for years to siphon billions of dollars worth of kickbacks from Petrobras.
The display honors Tesla and his friend Mark Twain; Joseph Keppler, the immigrant who founded Puck magazine; Jacob Riis, the crusading photographer; and Theodore Roosevelt, who as police commissioner had his office a few blocks away.
The announcement marks a disappointing end for Booker, the New Jersey senator, who rose to national prominence in the early 2010s as the crusading mayor of Newark and as an early supporter of President Barack Obama.
The inverse of that charisma is made flesh in Paul Giamatti's United States attorney, Chuck Rhoades, who serves as Axelrod's crusading nemesis, fixated on slaying Wall Street corruption — and propelling himself into political office along the way.
His imprisonment represents perhaps the biggest triumph in the yearslong effort by a team of crusading judges and prosecutors to upend the endemic graft that has long been a staple of politics and deal making in Brazil.
After almost two months of wasted motion, Trump put a frame on the race — Clinton as corrupt insider, Trump as crusading outsider — that could actually beat the former First Lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State.
But his appointment has been overshadowed by taped telephone conversations between Rousseff and Lula that were released by a crusading anti-corruption judge who said they showed the pair discussing how to interfere with his Petrobras probe.
On Thursday, Bolsonaro is due to meet with crusading anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro, who led the "Car Wash" probe snaring big names in Brazil's political class and opening the door for Bolsonaro's tough-on-corruption campaign.
The country's Sports Minister Grant Robertson said it was a "responsible action" to reconsider the name and the Crusaders, after initially saying it merely reflected "the crusading spirit of this community", agreed to at least discuss it.
More important, Mr. Ghani has made headway against the corruption that has served as a potent recruiting tool for the Taliban, thanks to several successful prosecutions of senior officials by the country's crusading attorney general, Farid Hamidi.
In Romania, a crusading anti-corruption prosecutor who was investigating top government officials was fired at the same time as the government advanced legislation to cabin the ability of other prosecutors to pursue cases against political officials.
As Modi began his run for Prime Minister, in the fall of 20023, he sold himself not as a crusading nationalist but as a master manager, the visionary who had presided over an economic boom in Gujarat.
The administration should embrace and further these efforts, especially in the run-up to elections this year, in which several factions are trying to block the candidacy of Thelma Aldana, a crusading former attorney general, for president.
Republicans are favored in deep-red Kansas, but Democrats think they can paint likely nominee Kobach, who has made a career of crusading against voter fraud, as someone who's too extreme for more centrist voters in Kansas.
The cast is unimpeachable, including Jesse Eisenberg as a mentally unstable Lex Luthor, Holly Hunter as a crusading senator, and Jeremy Irons as the new Alfred, replacing Michael Caine in the role of Bruce Wayne's father figure/valet.
SAO PAULO, July 5 (Reuters) - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's lawyers asked on Tuesday that crusading federal judge Sergio Moro be removed from a corruption investigation involving the former president, arguing he had shown a lack of impartiality.
If I wanted to be "Mister Popular" I never would have chosen a career as a crusading journalist, so why should I worry about what brand of telephone every Tom, Dick, and Harry has in his pants pocket?
She has grown to be a beloved person over the past several decades after caring for her husband, Ronald Reagan, as he suffered from Alzheimer's disease and then crusading on behalf of research to cure the devastating disease.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made a fiery defense against corruption charges leveled against him during five hours of testimony on Wednesday in his first appearance before a crusading anti-corruption judge trying the case.
The next day, anticipating a trial, he petitioned the UN Human Rights Committee to intervene, accusing Sérgio Moro, the crusading federal judge in charge of the main Petrobras investigation, of "a lack of impartiality" and "abuse of power".
But his personal vendetta is woven into the far more interesting story of Phil Sokolof, the drywall magnate who spent millions crusading against saturated fat and cholesterol, and convinced McDonald's to swap the beef fat for vegetable oil.
Four years later, he and 23 of his top lieutenants were sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1992 bombing death of Giovanni Falcone, the crusading prosecutor whose assassination made him a martyr of Italy's war against organized crime.
Mr. Taseer was a crusading secular politician and governor of Punjab Province at the time of his assassination, campaigning for changes in the blasphemy laws, which he, like other critics, said had been used to persecute religious minorities.
The list of former activists now in HHS include: Trump's positions on abortion have been wishy-washy, but it's well known that Vice President Mike Pence has been crusading against reproductive rights and access to contraception for years.
In my 2013 campaign for governor, I won endorsements from many moderate Republicans because I campaigned on a welcoming Virginia economy, while my opponent was known for crusading on social issues that scared global companies away from Virginia.
For several years, K2 Intelligence, an investigative firm based in New York, paid him to represent himself as a crusading documentary filmmaker and to spy on activists campaigning to ban the use of asbestos, the dangerous construction material.
Mr. Moro, the most visible law enforcement figure in a sweeping corruption inquiry that began in 2014, has been hailed at home and abroad as a crusading disrupter of a political class many saw as descending into kleptocracy.
Warren, 70, a crusading reformer of the financial system, is in the same generation as Biden, who first ran for president in the 1980s, but campaigns with the relentless energy of a fresher figure on the national stage.
John Wisniewski, the state assemblyman, made a name for himself as the crusading force behind the investigation into the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge and as the chairman of the Bernie Sanders campaign in the state.
That position did not give him extra legal protection, meaning that any investigation and trial of him would be handled by the same federal prosecutors and crusading judge who have pursued the Petrobras graft probe for nearly three years.
It's important to distinguish between these factors, because though the interplay between them has locked out a bunch of Sanders supporters, they're different rules that serve different purposes, and many Sanders supporters are, tellingly, crusading against the wrong one.
Brazil's top three papers also reported late on Monday that Lula was expected to accept a ministerial position in the coming days, after a crusading federal judge was given jurisdiction to rule over money laundering charges presented against him.
Reform advocates expressed optimism that the yearslong impasse on this issue would at last break now that Mr. Sessions was no longer crusading against a deal — at least not in his capacity as the nation's top law enforcement official.
With the accumulated gravitas he's earned over the course of three decades, Smits plays Elijah Strait, an elite, revered Memphis civil rights attorney who's recently added his canny, crusading and once-estranged daughter Sydney (Caitlin McGee) to his firm.
They have been blunt about their distrust of Mr. Mulvaney, a founder of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus whose political career was shaped by crusading against the type of deal the White House and Congress are now seeking.
Now in his fifth season as the detestable President Underwood on Netflix's "House of Cards" (released on May 26), Mr. Spacey will revisit a nobler role in "Clarence Darrow," a one-man show about the crusading civil-rights lawyer.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Supreme Court decided on Monday to return a corruption investigation into former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to a crusading anti-corruption judge who is presiding over cases in the sprawling Petrobras graft scandal.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to take a corruption investigation into former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva away from a crusading federal judge, as pro-government protests across the country eased pressure on President Dilma Rousseff.
The trove has a colorful history, having been obtained in a hotel-room raid on a visiting businessman that may or may not have been coordinated by a crusading anti-Facebook journalist, who has stubbornly refused to comment on the matter.
The crusading science journalist best known for his beef with Big Sugar is heading back from four days at a nutrition conference, where he spent time advocating for a new study into the role of diet in obesity and diabetes.
That is a dress that is designed to show off your girliness, and, you know, God bless her, show it off, but don't then tell us that you're crusading for an equal place for women at the table because you're not.
It was a crusading press that energized congressional investigations which stunningly revealed CIA complicity in the deliberate obstruction of numerous cases, and led to the formation of a well-funded Justice Department office to hunt and remove Nazis from America.
Lula's appointment on Wednesday, which sparked protests in several cities, means only the Supreme Court can investigate him, placing him beyond the reach of a crusading judge heading Brazil's biggest ever graft probe into corruption at state oil company Petrobras.
These fights are often run through the filter of the internet, and even more specifically, through the filter of trolling (in the above-linked interview with Bill Maher, Yiannopoulos directly refers to himself as a "virtuous troll" crusading for speech).
Howell Begle, a Washington lawyer who found a second career crusading on behalf of underpaid black R&B stars of the 1950s and '60s, leading to industrywide royalty reform and the creation of the charitable Rhythm & Blues Foundation, died on Dec.
GUATEMALA CITY — President Jimmy Morales of Guatemala on Friday shut down a crusading anticorruption commission sponsored by the United Nations that has pressed a number of high-profile investigations, including one pending against the president himself related to campaign financing.
The advertising reporter in me feels obliged to mention that we didn't hear the crusading against Facebook and YouTube that was part of the NBC presentation earlier in the day and was a staple of all the networks' upfronts last year.
Carolyn Konheim, whose sons' soot-specked white snow suits transformed her from a high school history teacher into a crusading New York environmentalist who targeted water and air pollutants, congested streets and other scourges of modern urban life, died on Nov.
That would eventually segue into Act III, and her marriage to political firebrand Tom Hayden, with the great irony that she produced her moneymaking workout video largely -- about as capitalistic an action as one could undertake -- to fund their crusading.
Anselmo Henrique Cordeiro Lopes, a crusading federal prosecutor in the capital, Brasília, opened an investigation in the weeks before the American election into $40 million in investments made by two relatively small Brazilian pension funds in the Trump Hotel Rio.
"The Post," starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep (who was nominated for an Oscar for the performance on Tuesday), may conjure up newspaper dramas like "Deadline — U.S.A.," the 1952 film noir about crusading journalists that starred Humphrey Bogart and Ethel Barrymore.
No matter what the board decides, Monday's revelations were an embarrassment for North Carolina Republicans, who spent years crusading against fraud — and were openly accused on Monday of underwriting misdeeds with tens of thousands of dollars in pass-through payments.
Since the campaign, they've become a crusading odd couple of sorts, setting aside other political differences (Painter is a lifelong Republican, although he voted for Hillary Clinton) to forcefully and repeatedly decry Trump's refusal to divest himself of his business interests.
"After a cataclysmic event, it takes a while for the collective unconscious to bubble to the surface," said Brian Koppelman, one of the creators of "Billions," a new Showtime series about a hedge fund titan under investigation by a crusading United States attorney.
In July 2017 Sergio Moro, a crusading young judge, convicted Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a popular former president, of corruption, sentencing him to nine years in jail for receiving a beachside apartment from a construction magnate who obtained padded government contracts.
My first exposure to the appropriation of the language of crusading came from Saddam Hussein, who routinely called George H. W. Bush the "Chief Crusader," an epithet he re-applied to George W. Bush in the later continuation of the Iraq war.
It took years for the internet's demand for Deadpool to convince studio executives to pull the trigger, even with the crusading of star Ryan Reynolds, whose leaked studio test footage became the linchpin of the internet effort to make a full-length film.
BANGALORE, India — A court in western India on Saturday ordered a member of a right-wing Hindu sect held in connection with the 2013 murder of Narendra Dabholkar, a physician who spent his adult life crusading against spiritual practices he considered fraudulent.
A born provocateur with a keen sense of public relations, he took over as the executive editor in 21975 and immediately set about transforming Ramparts from a sleepy intellectual journal to a slickly produced, crusading political magazine that galvanized the American left.
In "Feathers: Fashion and the Fight for Wildlife," opening on April 6, the New-York Historical Society revisits the treaty's origins, when crusading environmentalists successfully battled to regulate the fashion industry's craze for plumed accessories, including the early-twentieth-century fan pictured here.
Her prose has a swift, natural fluidity that reveals a holistic view of humanity; on a single page she brings together close readings of novels, historiography, etymology, political crusading, and philosophical meditations that themselves would be at home in a (great) novel.
That is a dress that is designed to show off your girlie-ness, and, you know, God bless her, show it off, but don't then tell us that you're crusading for an equal place for women at the table because you're not.
It was a sprawling oration, citing the historian Nell Painter, the Constitution, the crusading journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the lyrics to "Strange Fruit," and the speech that King delivered in Montgomery, in 1965, at the end of the march from Selma.
The response from the 53-year-old Mr. Moore, who had just lost his own effort to win a judgeship, was infused with the kind of crusading righteousness — his critics would call it sanctimony — that would later fuel his rise to national fame.
Anyone who really cared about those miners would be crusading to protect their health, disability and pension benefits, and trying to provide alternative employment opportunities — not pretending that environmental irresponsibility will somehow bring back jobs lost to strip mining and mountaintop removal.
Robert H. Boyle, a Brooklyn-born sportswriter and angler who became the unofficial guardian of the Hudson River as a crusading conservationist and a founder of a widely replicated watchdog group called Riverkeeper, died on Friday in Cooperstown, N.Y. He was 22000.
It helped that Mr. Forcade, with his anarchist leanings, found a savvy partner who knew how to navigate the establishment: Michael J. Kennedy, a crusading New Left lawyer for the likes of Timothy Leary and Huey P. Newton (and later, uncharacteristically, Ivana Trump).
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's Federal Police announced this week that it would shut down a crusading anticorruption task force, drawing a rebuke from prosecutors who warned the move could throttle investigations that have exposed systemic corruption among the country's political and business elites.
As a crusading conservative in a Democratic state with deep financial woes and one of the most underfunded pension systems in the nation, he attacked public-sector unions, demanded term limits for politicians and called for lasting changes to the pension system.
Damian Lewis struts his stuff as a cocksure hedge fund titan, and Paul Giamatti is his nemesis, a United States attorney crusading against Wall Street corruption, in this new series, whose creators include Andrew Ross Sorkin, the editor of DealBook for The New York Times.
The perils of becoming an ideological party are often framed in terms of culture-war issues, with Beto O'Rourke's promises to seize guns and tax churches (sadly doomed to unfulfillment, with the expiration of his campaign) the liberal equivalent of Michele Bachmann's crusading zeal.
Crusading intellectuals like Jane Addams and John Dewey came to epitomize this type: privileged members of society who put their talents to work devising new ways to help the poor or to educate children, aiming to liberate the human spirit to reach its full potential.
It's not the first time Texas has tried to wriggle its way out of the US. Fringe movements have been crusading for the cause since 1869, causing the Supreme Court to step in and rule that states actually don't have the right to secede.
The voter registration drive led her to join the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an integrated group — co-founded by the crusading black activist Fannie Lou Hamer — that challenged the seating of the state's all-white delegation at the 2300 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.
Once again, the film shows Gore crusading to save the planet, but this time, he doesn't have to show animation of rising seas flooding the site of the World Trade Center in New York; he can show actual footage of that happening during Superstorm Sandy.
Many fans were shocked to discover that Atticus Finch, the crusading lawyer who fights for racial equality in "Mockingbird," is depicted in "Watchman" as an aging racist and segregationist who clashes with his daughter, a grown-up Scout, over her support for civil rights.
"We laugh at Qatar, which wants to air-condition soccer stadiums, but we've been heating the air in winter for 10 years," said Jacques Boutault, the Green party mayor of Paris's 2nd arrondissement, who has been crusading against heated terraces for over a decade.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has convinced crusading anti-graft Judge Sergio Moro to become his justice minister, the two said on Thursday, delighting supporters and enraging critics by hiring the jurist who jailed Bolsonaro's chief political rival.
And Mr. Hallinan, the crusading progressive incumbent, was going low: Ms. Harris could not be trusted to prosecute city corruption, he suggested, because of her relationship with Willie Brown — the outgoing mayor, peerless local kingmaker and Harris supporter whom she had dated years earlier.
But the added layer of risk in getting onstage with Jorge Ramos, the immigration rights-crusading Univision news anchor and moderator of a candidate forum at the convention, also played a role in the campaign's discussions about skipping the largest single state gathering of Democrats.
"City of Sedition" is also an intriguing case study of New York's perpetual identity crisis, a metropolis "rarely of one mind," inhabited by Tammany thugs and the "shoddy aristocracy" of war profiteers, crusading journalists and abolitionists, Copperheads, Know-Nothings, humbugs and, of course, literary bohemians like Whitman.
Mr. Sparks was the crusading editor of The Rand Daily Mail, the major voice of liberal opposition to the white Pretoria government and a champion of majority rule, when he revealed that the apartheid opponent Steve Biko had been beaten to death by the police in 1977.
Now a joint-investigation by the news team of crusading Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui and respected weekly magazine Proceso has found evidence that the religious union between Peña Nieto and Rivera was only possible because leading church figures allegedly lied to help her annul her previous marriage.
"The White Devil's Daughters" also spotlights several men who played an important role in the struggle for civil rights and equal opportunities for Chinese and Chinese-Americans, most notably Ng Poon Chew, a crusading pastor turned newspaper editor who was a lifelong supporter of the Mission Home.
Her life and work is rooted in tradition — evident in a career spent crusading to preserve the Chinese design techniques that were nearly lost — and she is happy to discuss why she designs wedding gowns (marriage "is very important to the whole world and all humans").
Trump, with his tent-revival meetings, is crusading not only against Clinton and against Obama but against immigrants, against Muslims, and, in the end, against every group of voters that has fled the Republican Party, as he rides with his Four Horsemen: Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.
CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) - Embattled former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appeared in a federal court on Wednesday and gave a five-hour deposition, his first direct testimony before a crusading, anti-corruption judge on graft charges that he dismisses as a political witch hunt.
The largest donors to the various anti-weed political groups around the country include a billionaire casino tycoon, a woman who believes in reefer madness, a drug-crusading former U.S. ambassador, cops, prison guards, booze merchants, and a pharma company that sells the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
Here's another character who would be the crusading hero of dozens of other TV shows and here is a somewhat cool character, less interested in the facts of Naz's case and more interested in the idea that she has what she needs to put him behind bars.
Stone packs an impressive spectrum of characters and viewpoints into 210 fast-paced pages: from Manny, the son of wealthy black professionals who tells Justyce he's being overly "sensitive" and confesses that he's "scared of black girls," to SJ, Justyce's civil rights-crusading Jewish debate partner (and guilty crush).
On social media, some residents suggested this week that the 9,500-pound Forrest statue be replaced by one of Ida B. Wells, the crusading African-American journalist who was run out of Memphis for writing editorials against the lynching of three prominent black businessmen in the early 1890s.
It is especially spartan when compared with the fact-based "Just Mercy," which, while not exactly a legal thriller, does involve a dose of courtroom theatrics of the sort one might expect from a movie about a crusading lawyer's fight to exonerate a man falsely accused of murder.
Given the paucity of details from Trump and the sometimes contradictory nature of his remarks, it did not immediately appear that he was about to offer the crusading style of leadership that would be needed to grant his fellow Republicans political cover to jolt Congress into significant action.
An Inconvenient Truth was still seven years away, Leonardo DiCaprio was more focused on his work with the "Pussy Posse" than with crusading for Mother Earth, and we were all wearing those huge Rocket Dog foam flip flops without any concern for their environmental impact (they're back, by the way).
The Daily News has been consistent for years in its crusading coverage of both police brutality and gun violence (see the cover it was planning to run on Friday before news from Dallas broke), and it doesn't shy away from uncomfortable images it believes are in service of that coverage.
To many, he represents the old-school dovish liberalism of those who fought for democracy in the 1980s; as he spoke in Gwangju, a huge banner was unfurled above the crowd with pictures of two crusading liberal presidents, Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Dae-jung, whose legacy he promises to uphold.
"All these negotiations are extremely complex and they take a long time to finalize because they involve many facts, many people," Lima said on Thursday in an interview at his office in the southern city of Curitiba, where federal police, prosecutors and a crusading judge have led Brazil's anti-corruption fight.
But Democratic National Committee officials explained during the meeting how corporations can help foot the bill for the convention, regardless of who the nominee is, addressing some lobbyists' worries that a crusading left-wing nominee like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren could try to reject corporate money, embarrassing convention sponsors.
"I think it is at least as plausible that Phineas Fisher is a Russian operation maybe through a cutout than it is that he/she/it is what he/she/it purports to be, which is a politically motivated morally crusading super talented hacker," Menn said in an interview for Motherboard's podcast CYBER.
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who rose to fame representing the pornographic film actress Stephanie Clifford and positioned himself as a crusading critic of President Trump and fierce advocate of women's rights, was arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of domestic violence, a spokesman for the city's Police Department said.
In reality, O.J. Simpson's attorney Johnnie Cochran was many things at once, wrapped up in one immaculately tailored package: a smooth-talking litigator, crusading redeemer of racial injustice, fiery orator sermonizing to juries, master media manipulator, and down-and-dirty legal brawler who'd stop at next to nothing in service of his client.
Vance has positioned himself as a leader in fighting violence against women, from sending money to other states to spur the testing of rape kits detectives had let languish, to crusading against human trafficking by targeting men who allegedly buy sex and the web sites sex workers once relied on for advertising.
Separately, on Friday, a crusading member of India's Parliament, Subramanian Swamy, called in a court complaint for an investigation into allegations from a government report that Mr. Tata in 233 used a front company to apply for a telecommunications license, potentially circumventing the limits on the number of licenses one investor could hold.
There are statues of Washington and Lincoln, Jefferson and Churchill, and a monument to students who fought for the Union — a point of pride at a college that was founded by abolitionists, visited by the crusading former slave Frederick Douglass and open to black students and women from its founding in 25.
Lula had already been charged twice for various counts of corruption in connection with a massive anti-graft investigation centered on state oil company Petrobras, known formally as Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Sergio Moro, a crusading anti-corruption judge in southern Brazil, has ruled that Lula will stand for at least one set of those charges.
There are no good guys here, just shades of antihero: Giamatti's crusading US attorney is working on the side of justice in the legal sense, and his targets are billionaire scum, but the ways he tries to bring them down is so corrupt that it's unclear who exactly you're supposed to be rooting for.
David Fincher's 21 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — which starred Rooney Mara as Salander, the autistic hacker, and Daniel Craig as the crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who join together to solve a murder — was meant to be the first of the Larsson movies, but the next two books proved too difficult to adapt.
From embracing the feminist message of the new Beauty and the Beast, hiding Maya Angelou books along N.Y.C.'s subway to spread positivity after the presidential election and crusading for women's equality as the U.N.'s Women Goodwill Ambassador, the 26-year-old actress has made monumental change with everything she sets her mind to.
The son of a Christian mother and the son-in-law of the former dictator Suharto, Mr. Prabowo has transformed himself this election cycle into a crusading populist and devout Muslim in a last-ditch effort to woo nationalists, hard-line Islamists and the large number of poor Indonesians who struggle to make a living.
The photos Battaglia took during her career — in the early 2000s,in semi-retirement, she turned to art photography — are fearless, striking; scenes of the aftermaths of senseless murders and spontaneous, on-the-move portraits of crusading anti-Mafia political figures like the prosecuting magistrate Giovanni Falcone, who was murdered by the mob in 1992.
But Ms. Gillibrand, a former corporate lawyer, has been criticized by opponents as a politician without a firm ideological bearing of her own, having transformed from a pro-gun, conservative upstate congresswoman with deep ties to Wall Street financiers to a crusading liberal who rails against guns and refuses corporate political action committee money.
Later, we meet 20th-century black "breakthrough" figures, like Charles Diggs Sr., Detroit's first black congressman and proprietor of the wonderfully named House of Diggs funeral parlor; George Crockett Jr., a crusading labor and civil rights lawyer and his wife, Ethelene Crockett, who was Michigan's first African-American obstetrician; and Ed Davis, the country's first black auto dealer.
In Sorcha McDonagh's translation of the pseudonymous Jean-Luc Bannalec's enchanting THE FLEUR DE SEL MURDERS (Minotaur, $24.99), Commissaire Georges Dupin ponders the disappearance of a crusading investigative reporter named Lilou Breval while contemplating a meal of pan-fried Breton sole, a specialty, "along with langoustines, prawns, scallops, delicious sea bass, and squid," of the port of Le Croisic.
Assange and Wikileaks Depending on a reader's preconceptions, she or he will interpret Raffi Khatchadourian's article about the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, a ghostly global activist hiding out in a foreign embassy, as a portrait of either a self-involved, two-faced traitor to his own ideals or a crusading hero of the populace ("Man Without a Country," August 21st).
Trillions of robots crusading across the stars, dismantling entire civilizations; heroic last stands and desperate escapes; rebel probes known as "Drifters" trying to warn, evacuate and defend the systems in your path; and all the while this mysterious image of the paperclip, transmitted across the galaxy by the last warnings of dying empires, slowly becoming recognized as a symbol worse than the swastika.
Mr. Finney went on to play an eclectic array of movie roles, from the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in Sidney Lumet's star-studded version of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" in 1975, to the pugnacious lawyer Edward L. Masry, who hires the crusading title character (Julia Roberts) in "Erin Brockovich" (2000), Steven Soderbergh's tale of a power-company pollution scandal.
In the future from which the woman claims to come, 15 years later, lurid pictures of the cartoonist's beheading will be streamed to the world, galvanizing anti-Muslim extremists and bringing about a dystopia in which the Swedish government now forces citizens to sign a loyalty pledge or face social exclusion, and white nationalist vigilantes called "Crusading Hearts" are given free rein to harass and intimidate.
Despite its post-Watergate image as a crusading publication, in the Pentagon Papers era the Post often went out of its way to be sympathetic to power: When Bradlee discovered that his deceased sister-in-law Mary Meyer's diary detailed her affair with John F. Kennedy, he handed the document over to James Jesus Angleton of the CIA rather than break the story in the Post.
It took prosecutors a while to figure out how to use RICO effectively, but by the mid-1980s, federal investigators in the Southern District of New York were hitting their stride under none other than the crusading United States attorney Rudy Giuliani, who as the head of the Southern District brought charges in 1985 against the heads of the city's five dominant Mafia families.
A former top official at the Justice Department, a onetime prosecutor with a tough, crusading style, and a police-embracing mayor who ran New York on a law-and-order platform, Mr. Giuliani — both in office and as a private citizen — has spent the better part of his career stridently defending the country's crime-fighting class and fiercely lashing out at those who attack it.
But if Warren has appeared entirely self-assured in diving into the policy positions that she has been crusading for in Washington for years -- "All right!" she cheered when an audience member in Sioux City began asking about internet regulations -- her tone has changed when faced with questions about the 2016 election, a kind of riddle that she and so many other Democrats are still struggling to unwind.
Sylvia left CBS in 1977 to work at ABC News and was among the first anchors of its new magazine show "20/20," where she continued to distinguish herself with award-winning, crusading investigations like reports on exploding gas tanks in cars, and was named by TV Guide as "the most trusted woman on TV." Toward the end of her career, she worked at PBS with Bill Moyers.
On the legacy of the press You folks should always remember you are heirs to a grand crusading tradition that dates back to Ida B. Wells, exposing the horrors of lynching; Jacob Riis, the misery of Manhattan slums; Lincoln Steffens, municipal corruption; Ida Tarbell, the machinations of standard oil; Upton Sinclair, the scandalous meat packing industry; Rachel Carson, the dangers of pesticides; Woodward and Bernstein, exposing Watergate; and "The New York Times" and "Washington Post" publishing the Pentagon Papers.
The extent to which the neocons and their moralistic, crusading Wilsonian mission overtook the Republican foreign policy establishment, beginning in the 1970s, was so nearly complete that it can be hard to remember that a much different sensibility had previously governed the party, one reminiscent of Mr. Trump's own positions: wariness about foreign intervention, championing of protectionist trade policies, a belief in the exercise of unilateral military power and a suspicion of global elites and institutions.

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