Sentence examples for main figurehead from inspiring English sources

Rose is the main figurehead of the campaign.

Vote Leave, which believes Cameron would weaken its campaign, would rather Boris Johnson was its main figurehead.

Their main figurehead, Saad Hariri, a former prime minister, has accused Mr Assad of leading a murderous campaign against his own people.

Just like you can't go in and rip out a tumour because it's connected to the wider body which will react badly to such a blunt intrusion, elimination of the main figurehead won't necessarily prevent events that were as much a product of the wider socio-political context.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of that decision - and many people applaud the FA for finally taking such a strong stance on this issue - Capello is paid a lot of money as English football's main figurehead.

Accordingly, Al-Eissa is the main figurehead for promoting the true version of Islam, which encourages peace, tolerance and coexistence.

Britain's pro-Europeans are gearing up for the possible referendum on Britain's European Union membership by drafting in former ministers Kenneth Clarke and Peter Mandelson plus the chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, to act as the main figureheads of their campaign.

And when one considers three of the four main figureheads of the anti-Europe movement – Nigel Farage, George Galloway and Michael Gove – one sees, even with the most accommodating eye, the least sexy men in the whole of the British Isles (and Boris's appeal has always been a mystery to me).

He may not have the stomach for a fight that has also, in recent weeks, cost the freedom of the Green Movement's two main figureheads.Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi were both subjected, like him, to media vilification, followed in their cases by physical intimidation, confinement to their homes and then, quietly last month, arrest.

Now that Nemtsov has been silenced, here are a list of the main opposition figureheads.

The assassination in February 2005 of Lebanon's main post-war figurehead, Rafik Hariri, sparked huge protests, forced the withdrawal of Syrian "peacekeeping" troops and ushered in a national unity government.