Standard Bearer

There was the Sunni vote, and it went to a Shiite standard-bearer, former prime minister and CIA favorite Ayad Allawi — 91 seats in a parliament of 325 members. ❋ Fouad Ajami (2010)

If Mitt Romney is the nominee, the GOP standard-bearer will be a native Michigander whose father was governor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So after two years of conservative ascendancy, the most likely Republican standard-bearer will be Romney: the man the party rejected four years ago for being too moderate and insufficiently authentic. ❋ Unknown (2012)

And Viz slakes my thirst with the second volume of Oishinbo, the standard-bearer of culinary manga. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Siemens, which replaced nearly all of its management board in the wake of the scandal and since has hired hundreds of compliance officers, is now widely considered a corporate standard-bearer in its anticorruption efforts. ❋ Vanessa Fuhrmans (2011)

He is a great presence to have in the dressing room and for me, he is a standard-bearer for the entire world of football. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is a standard-bearer for a system of moral values. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1964, Republicans had to choose between Mr. Goldwater, standard-bearer for the party's hard-core conservative base, or a handful of more moderates such as Henry Cabot Lodge, William Scranton and Nelson Rockefeller. ❋ Gerald F. Seib (2012)

But Sprint has since become the standard-bearer in seeking lower rates. ❋ Roger Cheng (2011)

He is the gatherer of intelligence, the enforcer of the law, the investigator of the crime and the standard-bearer of the authority of the state, all rolled into one. ❋ Sushant K. Singh (2011)

She said the GOP standard-bearer must have the "political courage to do what has to be done" and needs "to be willing to be a one-term president if that is necessary to get the job done." ❋ Unknown (2011)

GOLDMAN: There's no talk about that at this point, but I think what the NFL sees, Liane, is that it's the standard-bearer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A look at her back catalogue should show that she's one of the finest observers of the human zoo, and a standard-bearer for women comics and regional voices, too. ❋ James Kettle (2010)

Or even leaving aside that; image if he was already known to be a morally soft and somewhat aesthetic fellow, and a reasonable rather than mean chap, before this was found out, instead of the standard-bearer of the Moral Crusade; people might not have been snickering so much about his grotesque hypocrisy because there would have been no hypocrisy to snicker about, just human weakness. spokeytown Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

A cornerstone of the policy was getting people out of institutional settings and Williams was its ardent standard-bearer. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The French novelist and bad-boy standard-bearer of political incorrectness Michel Houellebecq is no stranger to artistic self-promotion. ❋ Sam Sacks (2012)

But France is probably not a great standard-bearer, unless you think their sins since Louis XIV (or for that matter Philippe Le Bel) have been somehow purged by a decade or two of government by limp-wristed Socialists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dewey had been the GOP standard-bearer in 1944, and did far better than any Republican who opposed FDR in four tries. ❋ Dr. Philip Neches (2011)