nominal head

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The Fullerton has hosted North Korea’s nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam in the past, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2018

Last month, the North sent a delegation to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, led by Mr. Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, and the North’s nominal head of state, Kim Yong-nam.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2018

If so, he could also lose his position as president of the Presidium of North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament, which makes him the country’s nominal head of state.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2016

Neither the I.O.R.’s president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, nor De Pasquale, the nominal head of the regulatory agency, had any idea what these accounts contained.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 14, 2015

"What are your suggestions?" inquired the nominal head from his chair, anxious to avoid a clash between the newcomer and the truculent master of them all.

From The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan by MacGrath, Harold