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Those short-term considerations might have been overridden, though, except for one thing: Jobs' insistence that Apple be the sole standard-bearer of the digital revolution.
Kennedy being elevated, for better or for worse, to the role of standard-bearer for a generation repulsed by America's imperial presumptions, the antagonists became symbols for opposing forces larger than either man could discern.
Roseanne, it is said, will become a serious movie actress, a best-selling author, a standard-bearer of feminist populism.
In an election-eve speech, Adlai Stevenson, the Democrats' standard-bearer, said that "As a citizen more than a candidate ...
Senior statesmen of Henry's own Lancastrian party judged him an unworthy successor to their previous standard-bearer, the legendary Henry V, identified in the popular mind with the romance of chivalry and the tragedy of an early death.