(1) The highest official is the prime minister, and the president is a figurehead with no real power.

(2) This would be a strong answer to the Queen as sovereign figurehead , but could also result in a political president.

(3) If we are to have a figurehead as the leader of the nation, let it be the people's choice via the ballot box and not someone's birthright.

(4) The national sports council has long suffered from this problem as its head is looked upon as more of a figurehead than a leader well-versed and interested in sports.

(5) If the argument is that the sovereign is largely a figurehead with little real possibility of doing harm, then let's pick one of our own.

(6) But who can be sure that having your political figurehead at the 45-minute presentation is a vote-winner?

(7) In the past, the defense minister was only a figurehead without any authority over the chief of the general staff.

(8) The alternative is to look upon the monarch as a mere figurehead , a focal point for tradition, pomp and ritual on the great occasions of state.

(9) He says that powerful conservative interests want him punished because he's a figurehead for defiance of authority.

(10) Very few institutions change their chief figurehead every year.

(11) She reached the anchored ship and recognized the figurehead upon its prow.

(12) For instance, the figurehead was changed to an allegorical figure that evoked the ship's new name.

(13) The political leadership will become a figurehead at best and anarchy will rule.

(14) Built with the best materials, to the highest standard, her clipper ship bow and figurehead are still intact.

(15) The ship was monstrous, and her figurehead suited her perfectly.

(16) As she arrived at the bow, her eyes were drawn upwards along the prow, to where an ancient figurehead stood watch.

(17) He was the first of a line of hereditary prime ministers who, although they kept the monarch as a ceremonial figurehead , ruled the country themselves for more than a century.

(18) He is a figurehead , the hard-drinking leader who gives the gang what they want in exchange for loyalty and service.

(19) First, keep in mind that news anchors, like other constitutional monarchs, are primarily figureheads .

(20) It is essential that diversity leaders be more than figureheads if they are to provide transformative leadership to their campuses.

(21) The incomers were principally craftsmen, carving ships' figureheads and occasional portrait busts.

(22) Because figureheads were intended to lead the ship onward in a rush of motion, neoclassical figures, in the final analysis, were not compatible.

(23) Included are live demonstrations by a museum carver on how sailors depicted women on figureheads which, when placed on the bow of a ship, served to ward off harm at sea.

(24) In America during the colonial era there had been many wood carvers creating ship's figureheads and church furnishings.

(25) Examples of women as ornamentation can be traced back to the use of female figureheads on the prows of ships.

(26) Whilst it is fairly certain that they did indeed have figureheads on their ships, only a small elite would have carried them, and they would have all been warships of some description.

(27) We don't want bosses, figureheads or exalted leaders.

(28) Some boats are shown with cabins, prows and figureheads and some carry animals.

(29) In the merchant marine figureheads portraying the skip's owner or builder and their wives, daughters, or sweethearts were popular.

(30) There were handsome ships anchored in the harbor, many-sailed with delicately carved figureheads .