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