Now Manuel will be the standard-bearer for what was considered a weak class for quarterbacks.
And with Mr Alvarez's resignation, the Alliance has lost the standard-bearer for its crusade against corruption.
Then there's Nintendo, the standard-bearer in motion-control, which is hoping to add 3-D to its arsenal.
Tim Russert was a giant in our field -- a standard-bearer of journalistic integrity and ethics.
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But the shy, sometimes awkward, Mr Lugo was an unlikely standard-bearer for a modernised Paraguay.
Mitt Romney will be the GOP standard-bearer in the most ideological presidential election in modern American history.
It's a message designed to resonate with working-class voters, and the Republican Party's standard-bearer for the evening, Sen.
Observers had said Capriles, 40, represented a moderate alternative to Chavez, the charismatic standard-bearer of the Latin American left.
Personified by elegant Gropius and touted by hyperconnected Johnson, the Bauhaus became a ready standard-bearer for International Style architecture.
The standard-bearer of the hamburger, McDonald's, is bowing to local demand and is opening a meat-free restaurant in India.
He earned a reputation as an outspoken liberal standard-bearer during a conservative-dominated era from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
Now I'm sure that Joanna Shields is relishing the challenge of her new job as a standard-bearer for British technology firms.
Every sport needs a standard-bearer to help sell it to the wider audience and we've had other Paralympians who have been successful.
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Same-sex marriage has galvanized some issues-motivated activists, but the Republican standard-bearer has yet to galvanize longtime evangelical foot soldiers this campaign season.
The real standard-bearer of the left, however, will probably be Jon Cruddas, a backbencher supported by Compass, a well-organised Labour pressure group.
As the two sides lined up, it also became clear that Mr Swinney is the standard-bearer for a younger generation of Nationalists.
MortgageIT was a minnow compared with the leading purveyors of FHA-insured loans (the biggest of which was that standard-bearer of egregiousness, Countrywide).
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Some Paralympic athletes quickly expressed shock at the news of Ms. Steenkamp's killing, and described Mr. Pistorius as a standard-bearer for disabled sport.
The Republicans' presidential standard-bearer, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, wasted no time in blasting Vice President Al Gore, Clinton's would-be successor, over the issue.
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He says "Homeland, " which Fox 21 produces, is "the standard-bearer" of this trend, with a writing staff whose average age is more than 52.
Then, while continuing to support Megawati's presidential bid, he became the standard-bearer for what was dubbed the Center Axis, a loose alliance of Muslim parties.
Last week it expelled its presumed standard-bearer for 1998, Claudio Fermin.
The Oberoi, a high-visibility luxury standard-bearer, was among the targets.
If the election is held this year, whoever runs as the GOP standard-bearer for the remainder of the term could appear on the same ballot as the extremely popular Chris Christie.
In other words, Mr Gore is a more than respectable standard-bearer for Clintonism (which he should be, considering that he was responsible for a good part of it).
It is one thing for a party to repudiate candidates after they have lost an election, but the GOP standard-bearer in 2012 never said a word during the campaign.
The Acer Iconia A500 offers more memory than the iPad 2, while other companies have begun flooding the market with devices that are smaller and cheaper than Apple's standard-bearer.
President Uribe, although clearly supporting Mr. Santos, has twice made statements, unnecessary and unhelpful to the Partido de la U standard-bearer, that have been picked up by the press.
Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of the public schools and a national standard-bearer for education reform, repeatedly ran up against the teachers' union as she dismissed hundreds of teachers and administrators.
BA, bereft of its standard-bearer, is looking for ways to cosset passengers forced to spend seven hours in the air between New York and London, not three and a half.
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