- 看过 figurehead 的人也看了 :
- cipher
- puppet
- nonentity
- front
- nothing
- token
- mouthpiece
- straw boss
figurehead 的定义
figurehead 近义词
person who is leader in name only
更多figurehead例句
- If presidents are often thought of as figureheads for a political party, video game presidents are stand-ins for many different functions.
- Fox News host Tucker Carlson, whose fears of change include a dystopian Starbucks-drinking future, is the chief figurehead of the Say Anything style.
- He quickly realized he was more of a figurehead, he said, than someone who had significant control over the chain.
- Not only is the highly esteemed Berners-Lee the figurehead for Inrupt, but the company also has cybersecurity guru Bruce Schneier as its chief of security architecture.
- It’s not even so much policy-based, I just think politics has become so much of a machine — and I like having the feeling that one person can ultimately make the decision, that he is not just the figurehead and the machine is running everything.
- How will we know if Kim, when he eventually surfaces, is ruler or figurehead?
- Waters herself is a gay figurehead, but again she shrinks from any compliments.
- Less than 12 hours later, they lost their inspirational figurehead.
- He may be a figurehead, but the president who is elected today is worth keeping an eye on for signs of where Pakistan is going.
- Indeed, Medvedev was never really more than a figurehead president, despite the theoretically huge powers attached to the job.
- The statues here, and the lions before the Prince of Orange's palace, would disgrace almost the figurehead of a ship.
- Without power or privileges, she was a mere figurehead—a good mother looking after her family.
- The Speaking Oak then bade him cut off one of its great limbs, and carve from it a figurehead for his ship.
- Would people really prefer a figurehead and a symbol of undisputed authority?
- Walking steadily, but with a face set as the figurehead on one of his own ships, the captain went to answer the knock.