Sentence examples for figurehead role from inspiring English sources

First is the figurehead role.

He may be shambolic in many areas, but he's certainly not lazy – as mayor he puts in the hours whether in his figurehead role or driving policy.

But in public interviews he always insisted that his father should retain a figurehead role, which he sometimes compared to that of the queen of England, and the Western powers never bit.

A large S.V. group is calling for Thieu to quit or step into a figurehead role & allow them to form a Peace Cabinet, with which the Communists would negotiate.

More than 100,000 Oxford graduates, academics and staff are eligible to vote for Oxford's chancellor - an unpaid, essentially figurehead role described by its last incumbent, Roy Jenkins, as "impotence assuaged by grandeur".

Nevertheless, people regard Tonga's royal heritage as integral to their country's culture and identity, and appear pleased at the reforms that give the monarch more of a figurehead role.

As Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey presses ahead with plans to rewrite the Constitution, transform the presidency into a more-than-figurehead role and then perhaps seek it, the white Turks wonder whether the sun is setting on their world.

But the insurgents lacked a central figurehead, a role that Mr. Umarov now seems determined to seize for himself.

It's becoming a recurring trend in the Avatar series that the Avatars are needed not only to maintain balance but to act as a figureheads and role models for the various nations.

He is now employed as a consultant on the line while Tommy Hilfiger himself remains as a figurehead in the role of global brand ambassador.

The Rugby Football League has recently lost its figurehead in that role as Stuart Cummings, who was the match officials director and a conduit between coaches and officials, has departed,  prompting a reshuffle of staff.