English-French translations for standard-bearer

porte-drapeau- L’Union européenne est le porte-drapeau mondial de la protection des droits de l’homme. The EU is the world's standard-bearer where the protection of human rights is concerned. L'Union européenne sera toujours un porte-drapeau des libertés civiles et de nos valeurs démocratiques européennes communes, même au-delà de nos frontières. The European Union will always be a standard-bearer for civil freedoms and our common European democratic values, even beyond our borders. La politique de l'emploi dépend assurément aussi de la politique de libéralisation, et la Commission est le porte-drapeau de la libéralisation en Europe, et il y a de bonnes raisons à cela. Employment policy is surely linked to liberalization policy, though, and the Commission is the standard-bearer of liberalization in Europe, not without good reason.
porte-étendard

The standard-bearer in battle is in the center of the front line so the following troops know where to go; unfortunately, it also shows the enemy where to shoot.
He became the standard-bearer for their cause because of his celebrity.

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