How To Use Standard-bearer In A Sentence
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The Standard-BearersHere are some of the prophets and pathfinders who helped clear away the last of the old formality, fustiness and frou-frou.
Design Literacy: A Primer
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Florence write and establish their final condemnation of noblesse living by rapine, those 'Ordinamenti della Giustizia,' which practically excluded all idle persons from government, and determined that the priors, or leaders of the State, should be priors, or leaders of its arts and productive labour; that its head 'podesta' or 'power' should be the standard-bearer of justice; and its council or parliament composed of charitable men, or good men: "boni viri," in the sense from which the French formed their noun 'bonte.'
Val d'Arno
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Mr. Sistani, the true hero of Iraq's survival and incipient renaissance, is the standard-bearer of the traditional Shiite view of politics called "quietism," which rejects the clerical rule invented by the Ayatollah Khomenei in Iran.
Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy
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Farrakhan was a poor standard-bearer for the causes of African-Americans.
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Malaysia's sultans are considered standard-bearers of traditional dress and the baju kurung itself was refined and popularized a century ago by a sultan.
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It gave bipartisan cover not just to Hillary but to Santorum as well - legitimizing one of the Senate's ultraconservative standard-bearers.
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If Mitt Romney is the nominee, the GOP standard-bearer will be a native Michigander whose father was governor.
Flipping States; Retiring in Texas; Tempting Ben Nelson
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An unlikely standard-bearer for the Republican party, McCain will offer a stiff test for the Democratic nominee.
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Mr Everhart wants Caltech to be the standard-bearer for excellence in scientific research of all kinds.
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Rodrigo later rendered such distinguished services in the war in which Sancho became involved with Aragon that he was made alferez (standard-bearer or commander-in-chief) of the king's troops.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Rhee, whose resignation is effective at the end of the month, moved to turn the page and widen her stature as a national standard-bearer for education reform.
Gray vows to continue reforms in D.C. schools
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As the current standard-bearers for mankind, we must also bear the heavy burden of being its worst incarnation yet, and that, with the inexorability of time, things can only get worse.
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Farrakhan was a poor standard-bearer for the causes of African-Americans.
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A soldier, martyred at Antioch, Jan. 353, with Bonosus, a fellow soldier, of the Herculean cohort; they were standard-bearers, and refused to remove the chrismon (monogram of Christ) from the standard, as had been ordered by Julian the Apostate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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vinyl siding has become the standard-bearer for cheap, insubstantial construction
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But an expression seasonably uttered determined the matter whilst still undecided; for when a meeting of the senate, a little after this, was being held in the Curia Hostilia regarding these questions, and some troops returning from relieving guard passed through the forum in their march, a centurion in the comitium cried out, "Standard-bearer, fix your standard! it is best for us to remain here.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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He's a cultural icon, a standard-bearer for the dispossessed yet still proud black urban youth.
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Face of new opportunities, we will develop, heritage and play a standard-bearer of silk culture, make our unremitting efforts to carry the Chinese silk culture forward.
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Loftus-Cheek does not just play as a young man trying to make a career at a big club but the standard-bearer for a generation.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is the final standard-bearer of a generation who knew life outside pristine academies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Politico reports that the possibility has "roiled" Obama-land, with unnamed Obama-ites expressing "a sense of ambivalence about giving a top political plum to a woman they spent 18 months hammering as the compromised standard-bearer of an era that deserves to be forgotten.
Secretary Of State Hillary: Some Obama Backers Fret, But Obama Camp Sees Her As Team Player
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Nor fared he thence to the Frisian king with the booty back, and breast-adornments; but, slain in struggle, that standard-bearer fell, atheling brave.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
