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Meanings of standard-bearer in English
Person who carries a flag, banner or standard in an official capacity.
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Usage of standard-bearer in English
1
A score of armed warriors and the king's standard-bearer led the way.
2
The weakened MDC was not therefore the standard-bearer of revolt against Mugabe.
3
Six Tories rebelled, among them David Davis, a standard-bearer for the right.
4
Among them was the standard-bearer of Baresmanes, who commanded the Persian left.
5
Another, named Talero, disputed the question of who should be the standard-bearer.
6
The 80s Morrissey was the standard-bearer for everything brave, beautiful and idiosyncratic.
7
The mess immediately pitched on him as our standard-bearer, and he accepted.
8
Ginsburg, a liberal icon and feminist standard-bearer, died on Friday aged 87.
9
His death affected the ministry and churches as when 'a standard-bearer fainteth.'
10
The standard-bearer fell, and the white ensign lay in the dust.
11
In the nomination of our standard-bearer, the convention builded better than it knew.
12
The standard-bearer hesitated: the troops were on the point of taking to flight.
13
He is the standard-bearer of a new premillennialist sensibility: the banality of apocalypse.
14
But Kim assured Nick that the position of standard-bearer was an important one.
15
She reined up before her standard-bearer, and took the standard in her hand.
16
His standard-bearer raised his staff, flying the silver swan pennant of House Courcel.
Translations for standard-bearer
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