फिगरहेड (en. Figurehead)

During Bizimungu's administration, many believed that he was merely a figurehead, and Kagame held the real power.

He is considered an important figurehead of India’s growing self-confidence and later nationalist leaders often said they were inspired by his teachings and personality.

In practice, the Governor is a figurehead whose functions are chiefly symbolic and ceremonial.

Addams was a major synthesizing figure in the domestic and international peace movements, serving as both a figurehead and leading theoretician; she was influenced especially by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy and by the pragmatism of philosophers John Dewey and George Herbert Mead.

They offered to let him stay on in a figurehead role, but when Aldo tried to fight back, he was thrown out of the company entirely.

A devout Muslim and son of a boatowner, Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, who assumed office as the 11th President on July 18, 2002, was seen as a figurehead who could help heal some of the scars of the communal riots which broke out in Gujarat just a few months before.

But given that the show’s makers - a set of individuals that includes Harrison, who was an integral part of the portion of last night’s episode devoted to dealing with the cast returning to Paradise - have done a weak job themselves explaining what happened, it’s rich for its figurehead/one of its executive producers to blame reporters trying to get the bottom of the story, especially given the mess that was the messaging coming from his own workplace.