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

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

To support the reporter in her lonely crusade to stop the execution, Ms. Walker gives Molly firm convictions against the death penalty.

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

But one should never expect logic from Broadway, as I've discovered in a lonely decadelong crusade for a free market in tickets.

His "remains a lonely crusade," David C. Anderson said here in 1991, "but the powerful lessons of Massachusetts make clear that it is hardly a waste of time."

That remains a lonely crusade, but the powerful lessons of Massachusetts make clear that it is hardly a waste of time.

Mr. Yavlinsky, the Yabloko leader, is leading a lonely crusade against government corruption and has chastised the Kremlin for its brutish military campaign in Chechnya.

The effect is less that of a lonely political crusade than a religious revival, and his language has echoes of the pulpit.