Sentences with phrase «standard bearer among»

The Honda Fit has been the standard bearer among subcompacts, cars bigger than a Mini Cooper and smaller than a Ford Focus.

General Motors began selling a Cadillac pickup, the Escalade EXT, in 2007, but it was discontinued in 2013, so GMC is the high - end standard bearer among pickups.

Now differentiated from each other more than ever, the WRX and STI are the high - value, high - performance standard bearers among compact sedans.

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Given all that, it is perhaps surprising that 55 percent of the Protestant congregations we studied — slightly more among conservatives, slightly less among liberals — report that they consider themselves strong standard - bearers of their denominational tradition.

Among Elmore's former clients is Greg Minor, a reserve swingman for the Boston Celtics who is a standard - bearer for irresponsible fatherhood.

A Republican turncoat, D'Amato is now among Andrew Cuomo's biggest fundraisers, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in special interest campaign cash for the standard bearer of career politicians.»

Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, state Attorney General and gubernatorial standard - bearer Andrew Cuomo, and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, among others, are listed as hosts for the Rangel event.

While Egan landed the endorsement of former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout, a standard - bearer for liberal Democrats who trounced Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Albany County, McCoy racked up endorsements of many leaders among Albany County's progressive Democrats, including Mayor Kathy Sheehan.

The 2018 contest among Democrats could break down along similar lines with the party establishment pushing for an electable moderate and grassroots activists seeking a more ideologically pure progressive standard - bearer.

For a hot hatch that already boasts of being the standard - bearer among all hot hatches, it seems unfair that both versions of the Golf GTI Clubsport still has a room for improvement.

Among full - size international cars, the Toyota Avalon is the reigning standard bearer (before Impala came along) and the one that for the past decade did the best job of imitating a comfy, soft - riding GM car, better than GM itself.

Two exhibited photographs capture the generational genres he straddled: a 1945 group portrait finds a young Tomlin seated within a symmetrical half circle of American standard - bearers (Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, and Charles Burchfield among them).