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Перевод: figurehead

[существительное]
носовое украшение; номинальный начальник; номинальный глава; подставное лицо; марионетка [перен.]

Тезаурус:

1. Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march, and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen, the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance.
2. Among the better items is a superb painted figurehead.
3. And it'll be you who'll be in the public gaze as the figurehead.
4. "Just a figurehead."
5. Boundary manager: controlling the relationships between the school and its environment, acting as focal point and figurehead.
6. The films made from "Angry" texts seemed to mark a similarly definitive rejection of the previous orthodoxies, with Brief Encounter acquiring an unenviable figurehead status as the paradigmatic sexless, middle-class, British film - hence the scorn of the audience that contained Raymond Durgnat.
7. The present was a figurehead in France, and at home, a ruthlessly pro-French government headed by her mother.
8. He has handed over his responsibilities as the figurehead of Cobra (Australia), a club manufacturing company, to his father, together with the Australian Junior Golf Foundation.
9. So did Mr Gorbachev's nomination of Gennady Yanaev, a Communist apparatchik, for the new post of vice-president (a fine choice, said that figurehead of Soviet conservatism, Yegor Ligachev).
10. One was the absence of faction round an heir to the throne old enough to provide a focal point for political opposition, The only exception came in the last years of James III; in 1488, in the second and final crisis of his reign, his opponents could use his fifteen-year-old son, the future James IV, as their figurehead.
11. I have no right to be seen as a figurehead, I must continue to earn that.
12. On the other hand, Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board, as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers, and who would, therefore, behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged, rather than as a figurehead.
13. The Times for the morning of Wednesday, 29 May 1839, announced that the Orynthia was cleared outward with cargo for Demerara and Honduras; the woman's bust figurehead was leading her brave boys away from home on the long voyage south-west.