nominal head
Example Sentences
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As for the nominal head of the dictatorship, Gabrielle Weiniger and David Charter report for The Times of London:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
The Xinjiang chairman, the nominal head of the region, was always a Uighur, but the real power rested with the regional party secretary, who for decades was always Han.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
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
Such is the man who is the nominal head of the Papacy.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
