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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Some critics have also deemed "Robinson Crusoe" a standard-bearer for the darker elements of imperialism.
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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.
Republicans also want a standard-bearer who looks like he can survive the inevitable cage match with President Obama.
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.
It's just that his partisanship is not usually defined by his allegiance to the Republican Party and certainly not to its current standard-bearer, President Bush.
Last week it expelled its presumed standard-bearer for 1998, Claudio Fermin.
He soon established himself as the standard-bearer of the reform-minded wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, and forged working relationships with leading figures in several secular-liberal opposition parties.
The Oberoi, a high-visibility luxury standard-bearer, was among the targets.
What makes this development all the more worrying is that Kirchner has close ties with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who has been the standard-bearer for anti-Americanism in the region.
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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).
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