1.   Among his lonely crusades was an effort to block an otherwise automatic congressional pay raise.

2.   But she thinks there has been progress since she began what often looks from a distance like a lonely crusade.

3.   Changing attitudes and demographics have turned cremation from a lonely crusade into a big business.

4.   For seven years, Burton Smith has been leading a lonely crusade to reinvent the supercomputer.

5.   Since then, he has become the leader of a lonely crusade against the congressional pension.

6.   This brings up the lonely crusade of Colman McCarthy, the former Washington Post columnist who once was a syndicated voice.

7.   Every week for nearly four years, they have protested in a lonely crusade against a war that has shattered many of their lives.

8.   A bar on foreign political groups would strike at the heart of the Democratic Party, which has launched a lonely crusade against the Provisional Legislature.