"The private channel is still loaded with some skeptical questions: 'Really, how do you see this?' 'What about a figurehead role for Arafat?' and so on," the official said.
That's what a queen is, not a figurehead".
But corporate governance experts say that Mr. Sidgmore should have been more involved, or should not have accepted millions of dollars in pay and stock options for what was largely a figurehead role.
There is no reason why Mr Erdogan should not be president; but he should wait patiently to succeed his AK party colleague, Abdullah Gul, in what is largely a figurehead job, in 2014 or, if Mr Gul gets a second term, in 2019.
What they want is a figurehead, a mansplainer, a gravitational node amid all these centrifugal conversations.
Olsen, 24, has become a figurehead of the Occupy Wall Street movement and Oakland organisers have said they will stage a general strike over what a spokeswoman called the "brutal and vicious" treatment of protesters, including the former Marine.
Stussy has since grown to be a figurehead for what is now seen as a predominantly urban genre.
It sounded very much like what one would expect from a figurehead such as the Queen of England — not from an icon of democracy.
"I couldn't think of anyone better to be a figurehead for what we're doing and her story is just incredible.
And he has become (or is becoming) for religion what Bourdain is to food: a figurehead.
What better figurehead for the emerging concept of the "big society", the idea that public-spirited citizens (plus corporate philanthropists) could work miracles the supposedly lumbering state could not?
