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 new law extends that ban to a party’s nominal head as well as its “true leadership,” reflecting fears that Mr. Kasidiaris might control legislators from behind the scenes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
“He is the nominal head of the court, but has little authority to act on his own.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2022
When it’s time to give the children their allowance, Andais secretly hands Charlie the coins so that he, as nominal head of the household, can dole them out.
From The New Yorker ● May 17, 2017
Throughout the period just mentioned, Lord Liverpool was the nominal head of the Ministry.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
