The phrase "a figurehead from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who holds a position of authority or leadership but has little real power, often in a specific context or organization.
Example: "The organization was led by a figurehead from the old regime, whose influence was mostly symbolic."
Alternatives: "a nominal leader from" or "a symbolic leader from".
Evening diners are offered a tour of the building, including its collections, which include a figurehead from an 1869 clipper ship, Glory of the Seas, which had sunk to barge use before it was burned for scrap metal in the 1920's.
Vic Gundutra's solution was to choose a figurehead from the organization to represent the brand and deal with the interim months between now and when the Google+ Business pages launch that way.
He has become a figurehead for change amongst the support.
It was an absurd moment: bestowing a made-up honour to an overly-ennobled figurehead from another country who represents a bygone era of Australia.
It sounded very much like what one would expect from a figurehead such as the Queen of England — not from an icon of democracy.
Givenchy, which is currently without a figurehead designer and absent from the haute couture schedule, may rejoin the ranks in July.
If the blandness of her public utterances, or phatic questions to those who have come to be ennobled by her ("have you come far?" and so on; Bennett has commoners freaked out when she starts asking them what they've read lately instead) can exasperate, one can expect nothing more from a figurehead, whose expression must remain the same whatever the weather.
"I am ashamed now to say it but I passed my eyes over her as a cannibal views his dinner, my gaze sharp enough to pick the meat off her bones," she wrote, adding: "For a moment she had turned back from a figurehead into the young woman she was, before monarchy froze her and made her a thing, a thing which only had meaning when it was exposed, a thing that existed only to be looked at.
"If Hillary Clinton was not already out of touch, now she brings in a figurehead of the establishment from a decade-and-a-half ago to help her campaign reach young people," state Rep. Carlos Trujillo said in a statement issued by the Trump campaign.
The last of his line, Bao Dai, officially emperor of Vietnam from 1926 to 1945, functioned as a figurehead under the French protectorate, which had existed from 1883.
He moved at a stroke from being a figurehead to becoming an active champion of Spanish democracy.
