trail-blazer

I began this political season with a great deal of respect for Hillary as a trail-blazer for women.

Obama supporters planning DNC counter-protest 2008

As is often the case for a trail-blazer, he had to be twice as good as the other candidate for the job.

Discourse.net: Snapshot 2008

Judge Sotomayor, like President Obama himself, stands as a trail-blazer and symbol for ethnic groups, including her own Puerto Rican-American community, as well as women.

Solving The Republican Conundrum 2009

She was a teacher, she was a nurse, she was trail-blazer and she was my grandmother.

Lisa Earle McLeod: True Tales of a Nurse: Segregation to Barbie 2009

In 1927, Marcel Duchamp, the French-born trail-blazer of conceptual art, married a young heiress called Lydie Sarazin-Lavassor.

Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008

So, quite simply, Bill Murphy, a man I never met, is a not only an inspiration to me, but a trail-blazer who made it possible for me to write freely about civil rights, labor, and employment issues in the Mississippi of today.

Archive 2008-03-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

Kelly also works in a driving rap that features The Notorious B.I.G. and a moving gospel tribute to his mother that was arranged by gospel trail-blazer Kirk Franklin.

Out Of The Groove 2008

The Nutmeg State was a trail-blazer in borrowing from the Bible (Canaan, Bethlehem) and minting clumsy compounds (Voluntown, Harwinton).

A Long Way From Dullsville 2008

Masondo, describing him as a trail-blazer and pioneer and urging people to learn from his lessons and take up where he had left off.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

In 1927, Marcel Duchamp, the French-born trail-blazer of conceptual art, married a young heiress called Lydie Sarazin-Lavassor.

Art and Chess Jan 2008