0 the person or thing that seems to lead a group of people having similar ideas or moral opinions:
Mr Everhart wants Caltech to be the standard-bearer for excellence in scientific research of all kinds.
In these situations, e-government seems far from being a triumphant standard-bearer for modernity.
It was a shake-in to the public administration which we all know to be an absolute standard-bearer in the export drive!
The eagle was borne by the "aquilifer", the legion's most senior standard-bearer.
He usually carried the standard or nominated a standard-bearer.
These were, in ascending order: "tesserarius", "optio", "signifer" (standard-bearer for the "centuria").
He became known as a standard-bearer for the revival of popular literature in the postwar period.
It was perhaps worn by an officer or standard-bearer who intended its imposing appearance to intimidate his enemies on the battlefield.
Fulk was unhorsed and his standard-bearer was felled.
