Sentence examples for figurehead by from inspiring English sources

It aims, he said, to avoid the "influence of a single figurehead" by refusing to handle documents itself.

This is The Hunger Games as pointed political procedural, detailing with some wit the tactical reconstruction of Katniss as a revolutionary figurehead by outside parties – notably spin doctor Plutarch Heavensbee, played by a quietly benevolent Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Pardoned and released after two years, he was adopted as a figurehead by a coalition of grassroots movements and leftwing parties and stormed to victory in the 1998 election, cheered not only by the poor but a middle class fed up with ossified political parties.

He might as well have gone the distance in completely filling the role of the unsympathetic figurehead by going on record as saying: "Let them eat cake".

English teacher by day, footwork figurehead by night, Kent Alexander runs Battle Train Tokyo, the Japanese scene's only 'battle' event (the battle being footwork's version of the dance contest).

In April 2010, after months of political pressure, the government passed the 18th Amendment, which reduced the President to a ceremonial figurehead by stripping the office of the power to dissolve Parliament, to dismiss the Prime Minister, and to appoint military chiefs.

It is important that this investigation be conducted not by a figurehead, but by one with the knowledge, passion, and predisposition to build the public case for sweeping reform, and without fear or favor.

Bagehot observed that the role served by the Sovereign since leaving behind the era when the day job consisted of donning armour and eviscerating rivals was to float above the filthy business of wielding power and instead embody a sense of "mystery" –  a unifying figurehead gifted by history and surrounded by ritual.

"She was a figurehead chosen by the media for complicated reasons.

A symbol of purity and infallibility in theory, but in reality a figurehead surrounded by conflict and misunderstanding.

Mr. Tarar, the ousted president, was a figurehead appointed by the deposed civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.