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Significados de figurehead en inglés
Person who holds de jure an important title or office, yet de facto executes little actual power.
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Examples for "front"
Examples for "front"
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Yet the performance regime demands councils continue to produce so-called 'up-front' allocations.
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However, Ireland went in front after 16 minutes from a McAllister penalty.
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BNZ front line staff say regional businesses and economy in good heart.
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Of course, when power is needed, the front motors do their work.
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However, the front-line remained just 50 metres from hundreds of armed troops.
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They even laid out a strawman organization that made sense to me.
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I don't want you to think I'm building a strawman here.
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One strawman proposal has been advanced, suggesting a leadership split between myself and Dr. Brown.
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There is sound logic in the strawman proposal.
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We end the so-called strawman provision.
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No more than a front man, no doubt; certainly not the mastermind.
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Then our front man made the long descent and we lost one.
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Effective in going beyond his front man, was also comfortable receiving possession.
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He had taken on the role of front man and image projector.
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Maybe I was just playing the front man to a big cover-up.
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He hereby became nominal head of the League and its real slave.
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This was Jo's household, and he was the nominal head of it.
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In Ayacucho it was Ikela, the nominal head of the original five.
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The presidium president had historically been the nominal head of state.
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And now Mr. Snawdor, the nominal head of the family, was acknowledging it to be true.
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The next criticism is a related one: the great ' straw man' offensive.
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He set up this straw man here, just to keep me company.
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Ivy hugged me and slipped a little straw man into my hand.
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And a marvelous straw man to knock down with their scientific exorcisms.
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He looked a straw man set out to announce some holiday.
Uso de figurehead en inglés
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On some level, he stands as a very apropos figurehead for Potentialism.
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But now this job makes her their figurehead for the whole company.
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To him Louis had been but a name, the figurehead of state.
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She wondered why he allowed Duvalier to hang around as a figurehead.
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Beyond Hockenhull he could see one upraised paw of the lion figurehead.
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I found that I had stayed to be a puppet, a figurehead.
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He had studied her figurehead, oblivious to the stroke oarsman watching him.
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I'm not much more that a figurehead of an old hulk myself.
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Is she merely a figurehead to take orders from the visiting physician?
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And a tall female figurehead, painted white, now graced the boat's prow.
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While the emperor holds no political power, he serves as a national figurehead.
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Without its charismatic figurehead, the Share Our Wealth Society soon withered.
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As a leader and figurehead, however, Donovan still brings a lot.
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But Salkow quickly proved to be more a figurehead than a power agent.
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A president is just a figurehead for the corporations -they run government.
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My father was no figurehead, and I certainly don't intend to be one.
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