Word: figurehead
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...Although rumored to have been a figurehead with little personal involvement in misdeeds committed by others, US officials have said in the past that they would like to prosecute him for war crimes...
...Easy Rider (1969) and in the freer, more personal films that flowed from its success, Nicholson became a kind of figurehead for a loose group of actors and filmmakers who were trying to expand the commercial genre...Their work was almost always full of aggressive invention, but the new Hollywood passed, the victim of erratic returns at the box office. Nicholson passed along with it, not out of sight, but on to other things. He worked into the mainstream, and started running with the high rollers. He now counts as two of his buddies Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans...
...It’s such an unusual property and such a wonderful figurehead for our denomination,” Wiberg said. “If you were to itemize churches across the country, our church would be at top in terms of visibility and charm and architectural excellence...
...Davenport was the leader and figurehead of the eugenics movement in the United States,” Savo said. “It was taught as part of over 300 science courses around the country...
...Gujarat, they provoked particular alarm. While human-rights groups demanded Modi be tried for genocide, Hindu political parties, cultural groups and hordes of street demonstrators celebrated him as India's great defender. From a political nobody, Modi was catapulted into the international limelight as the white-haired, bespectacled figurehead of Indian intolerance, a national Hindu hero. In headlines and debate, he instantly eclipsed all other leaders, even the Prime Minister from his own Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party, or BJP), the moderate but aging Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Faltering from a lackluster record as head of the national coalition...