figurehead

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The Nepali Congress party, which led the interim coalition government, wants a figurehead president.
領(lǐng)導(dǎo)臨時聯(lián)合政府的尼泊爾大會黨則希望設(shè)立一個傀儡總統(tǒng)。
At 81 he could only be a figurehead or "caretaker" director-general say diplomats, who also point to a rigorous Egyptian campaign against him.
外交人士說，81歲的他只能成為一個有名無實的或者“臨時代理的”總干事，他們還指出，埃及堅決反對他參選。
The Labour Party’s leader is struggling to persuade voters, and some of his colleagues, that he is an effective figurehead for the opposition, let alone a plausible prime minister.
這位工黨領(lǐng)袖正在努力讓選民及其一些同僚（更不用說還挺像那么回事的首相本人）相信，他實際上是在野黨中的傀儡領(lǐng)袖。

How could a country with such crumbling infrastructure and untested political institutions do well under a figurehead?
ECONOMIST: Letters

(PERSON) someone who has the position of leader in an organization but who has no real power
(MODEL) a painted model, usually of a person, that in the past was attached to the front of a ship

If someone is the figurehead of an organization or movement, they are recognized as being its leader, although they have little real power.
A figurehead is a large wooden model of a person that was put just under the pointed front of a sailing ship in former times.