Figureheads

Politics is attached to figureheads - which stand for that party's ideals.

They are just figureheads.

Our elected officials are not just figureheads elected to cut ribbons and wave in parades.

Socialist figureheads like Bernie and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have increasingly acted on poor instincts and haven’t kept up pace with the movements that supported them, leaving DSA with hardly anyone who has a national platform to champion our vision.

There are very strong streaks of autocracy in Trump’s approach,” Blockmans said, cautioning that other factors also influence the popularity of Europe’s political figureheads beyond the influence from across the Atlantic.

He's known to rally up the Japanese public to rebel against the corporate figureheads.

Johnson, who was one of the Brexit campaign figureheads in 2016, “is expected to be one of the first to receive the new coin on the day”, the government said.

Ayoola Oreoluwa, a student from the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), described the body as figureheads and thus should be abolished.

Each reference to this word by congressmen and congresswomen, senators, government figureheads and activists electrified the more than 18,000 AIPAC Policy Conference participants.

Using women as figureheads in propaganda: it works!

MCP and DPP are no different because the figureheads behind the running of these parties are old guards who have been part and parcel of the mess we are in today.

Throughout the season, all kinds of signs have been shown from Barcelona figureheads, not only admitting their interest but also contacting the player's entourage.

Boyle, p 415-416 "So insignificant had these figureheads become", according to JA Boyle, "that we are not even informed as to the time and manner of their death".

Bronze trireme ram Once the triremes were seaworthy, it is argued that they were highly decorated with, "eyes, nameplates, painted figureheads, and various ornaments".

In 1613, he composed the Kuge Shohatto (), a document which put the court daimyo under strict supervision, leaving them as mere ceremonial figureheads.

Most European monarchs became figureheads; elected governments held the real power.

The only women that were welcomed on board were figureheads mounted on the prow of the ship.

Wilhelm II sought to reassert his ruling prerogatives at a time when other monarchs in Europe were being transformed into constitutional figureheads.