skyscraper

skyscraper


    Scegli la lingua
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Sinonimi e Definizioni Vai ai sinonimi

    Usa "figurehead" in una frase

    figurehead frasi di esempio

    figurehead


    1. It would be as it was when he was a small child, before the local corporations picked her as their figurehead in Washington and before Ohio defected to Laurentia


    2. The fact with the release of created documents: State of the art religious-political figurehead Construction—image manipulation to the extreme


    3. I’m just a figurehead


    4. “What if he wants to kill the emperor and put a figurehead on the throne, not because he wants a leader who’s sympathetic to capitalist interests but because his government wants someone who can be manipulated into working for them, maybe even helping to set up an invasion? The Nurians might not hate us as much as the Kendorians or other nations we’ve conquered, but they would certainly gain a lot from our fall


    5. Except for the AIDS issue, the world is far better off if GW Bush had not been appointed president by five Supreme Court justices, instead remaining a poor businessman and a figurehead as the Governor of Texas


    6. As is the case, you will mostly be a figurehead of sorts, a legitimised leader, as had been the case with your precursors


    7. Ingalaterra has invaded Ezkozia under the figurehead of Alejandro, the younger brother of King Jaime the Third, of Ezkozia


    8. In fact, both could easily be replaced by one or another non-Jewish figurehead


    9. “I need an heir, I need a figurehead to rally the public opinion in the new war, a young child I could mold into a great hero


    10. Farah would have herself asked the protection of the King, who was still widely respected, if not for the fact that the King was now down to being not much more than a figurehead, his faithful royal guardsmen the only ones still protecting the royal family of the Imperium from Veck’s monstrous ambition

    11. King Stan is actually little more than a figurehead, with a mostly administrative and ceremonial role in the government


    12. Within moments of his death, the management of The Organization immediately contacted the Duke’s double, who would be flown in to act as the figurehead, whilst the management continued to run The Organization


    13. It was his own fault for keeping a low profile in the business; he wanted to be the invisible man, not the figurehead


    14. Extreme pressure is being placed on the Department of Justice to arrest and prosecute the leaders of the 222 Revolution, but as we have seen, there isn’t a figurehead for them to go after


    15. If the Palestinians could have a figurehead like


    16. “Yes, NigNaz was the first Z and is their ultimate figurehead and final ruler


    17. over that ten foot distant between the figurehead toward a female whisperer


    18. Figurehead cameras humped away, burning figures into their reeling


    19. The clipper was named Sapphire Ocean and Papa had one of his trusted captains, now retired, design and carve the figurehead after me


    20. I stepped into the warm inviting water and Sher waved a beautiful red and black scarf in front of my eyes that reminded me of the carved figurehead on Papa's clippership named Sapphire Ocean

    21. All the German people were lacking was somebody to tell them what they should do… a moral leader, a figurehead, an iconic strongman, a king


    22. These were the traveling Christian ministers who claimed to have magical powers given to them by the original head of the Galilee poverty group who had been crucified, martyred, and turned into a worshipped, revered, sanctified figurehead


    23. Read the damn truth about how Stalin systematically killed every single authority figurehead in the entire USSR


    24. As a meaningless popinjay, a figurehead who had not the faintest fucking clue as to what he was doing or saying


    25. They would instead surely have prescribed a Powerful, Majestic and Kingly figurehead as ‘God’


    26. He was the wrong figurehead, the wrong target


    27. He had enough energy to be the figurehead of a German rebirth and he helped to create a new, healthier, better German society based upon a more egalitarian society


    28. The result was: his generals took over the running of the whole German nation and pushed him into the background, and the Kaiser lost all true power, and became a useless figurehead, a token king: not an actual ruler


    29. He not only acted as if he was a figurehead monarch: he lived like one; he lived like Wilhelm had lived when he was the figurehead of the German state… He lived like the Russian Tsar had once lived, disdaining the everyday running of his govt as beneath him


    30. Except for his takeover of the running of the war, Hitler was a figurehead and a fraud

    31. The glow of the room was radiating out of the blue sapphire faceted eyes of the figurehead casting a thousand pinpricks of blue light out upon the cavern at large


    32. His underlings--soldiers and servants alike--might begin to question a figurehead who had led them forth along one current only to stop after a great distance and choose another


    33. will always be that vital parental figurehead missing, as well as sets of grandparents and


    34. He had a bag of money in his pocket, like a pudding in the cloth, and on that property married a young person in bedfurniture, with great rejoicings; the whole population of Portsmouth (nine in number at the last census) turning out on the beach to rub their own hands and shake everybody else's, and sing "Fill, fill!" A certain dark-complexioned Swab, however, who wouldn't fill, or do anything else that was proposed to him, and whose heart was openly stated (by the boatswain) to be as black as his figurehead, proposed to two other Swabs to get all mankind into difficulties; which was so effectually done (the Swab family having considerable political influence) that it took half the evening to set things right, and then it was only brought about through an honest little grocer with a white hat, black gaiters, and red nose, getting into a clock, with a gridiron, and listening, and coming out, and knocking everybody down from behind with the gridiron whom he couldn't confute with what he had overheard


    35. Sure, I did not mention the Goddess as the Source of their Redemption (tho’ I was certain ’twas She), for they might have burnt me as a Witch! But my Rhetorick began to stir ’em to their Bones when I planted in their foolish Hearts and Minds the Hint of Superstition; whereupon many began to feel that I alone was the Mascot and the Figurehead of their Good Fortune! (’Tis oft’ true, Belinda, that whilst Men wish to conquer Women at large, they’ll accept one special Woman as a Token, the better to subdue the Multitudes!)


    Mostra più esempi

    Sinonimi per "figurehead"

    figurehead front front man nominal head straw man strawman so-called titular nominal self-styled empty token