Figurehead

The "retired" president of that company runs the whole show from behind the scenes, so the current president is nothing but a figurehead.

She's the party's figurehead.

President Jackson is just a figurehead for the international conspiracy of Esperantists.

Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.

Instead she played, largely impeccably, the part of a modern constitutional monarch, a symbolic figurehead with a right to be consulted and to advise and warn political leaders privately and to show herself publicly as a focus of national life, celebration and commemoration.

Supporters of Wagenknecht, a controversial but prominent figurehead, are already hatching plans for a breakaway party to compete in the 2024 European elections, the German newspaper Taz reported this week.

HATCHET. Bring up, I say, or I'll spoil your figurehead. [Lifting his cudgel]