A president is frequently besieged to serve in non-academic civic and governmental capacities, to make speeches to lay groups, and to make numerous ceremonial appearances on and off campus.

Assuming the weather is halfway decent that day, hundreds of thousands of persons will mass along this thoroughfare as President John F. Kennedy and retiring President Dwight D. Eisenhower leave Capitol Hill following the oath-taking ceremonies and ride down this historic ceremonial route.

Astronomy certainly played an important role in Chaco culture, as it is visible in the north-south axis alignment of many ceremonial structures.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

This rank is generally reserved for wartime and ceremonial purposes ; there are no regular appointments to the rank.

Admiralty Arch is linked to the Old Admiralty Building by a bridge and is part of the ceremonial route from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace.

Also mistakenly called " gbedu " ( gbedu is the name of a large ceremonial drum ).

Their authority within their sui juris church is equal to that of a patriarch, but they receive fewer ceremonial honors.

Years after Wallace's death, Robert the Bruce, now Scotland's king, leads a Scottish army before a ceremonial line of English troops on the fields of Bannockburn where he is to formally accept English rule.

Today, the role is by convention effectively ceremonial.

Cambodia has a ceremonial monarchy, yet its political system is not democratic.

52 rifle is used as ceremonial weapon by Prague Castle Guard.

The " Batizado " ( baptism, in English ) is a ceremonial roda where new students will get recognized as capoeiristas and earn their first graduation.

The current crest, featuring a ceremonial lion rampant regardant holding a staff, is a modification of the one introduced in the early 1950s.

Electrum coins were not standardized in weight and are considered by opponents as badges, medals or ceremonial objects issued by priests, rather than coins ( actually the oldest of them have been discovered not in Lydia, but in an ancient Greek temple of Ephesos, a city colony built by the ancient Greeks in what is now Turkey ).

Dance is performed for various purposes like ceremonial dance, erotic dance, performance dance, social dance etc.

The ceremonial playing of the Russian national anthem before the game is an important tradition.

Some of the symbolism within the coronation ceremony for British monarchs, in which they are anointed with holy oils by the Archbishop of Canterbury, thereby ordaining them to monarchy, perpetuates the ancient Roman Catholic monarchical ideas and ceremonial ( although few Protestants realize this, the ceremony is nearly entirely based upon that of the Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor ).

The king or queen of the United Kingdom is one of the last monarchs still to be crowned in the traditional Christian ceremonial, which in most other countries has been replaced by an inauguration or other declaration.

Linda sneaks in through the backdoor and attacks Ash with a ceremonial dagger, but Ash is able to take the dagger from her and impale her through her torso, seemingly killing her.

Parliament is the " first institution " of the EU ( mentioned first in the treaties, having ceremonial precedence over all authority at European level ), and shares equal legislative and budgetary powers with the Council ( except in a few areas where the special legislative procedures apply ).

Church authority is often represented by ceremonial headdress, such as a mitre.

The current Presidency Council, a transitional replacement for the President of Iraq who serves largely as a figurehead with few powers, is composed of Jalal Talabani, Tariq al-Hashimi, and Khodair al-Khozaei.

That is why Magnus, who represented Denmark and later struck a deal with Ivan the Terrible, proved a suitable figurehead for this faction.

In essence, the head of state, usually a monarch or president, is a ceremonial figurehead who is the theoretical, nominal or de jure source of executive power within the system.

In some cases, the Head of state is a figurehead whilst the Head of the government leads the ruling party.

It has been suggested that the character identified as " Care " below is really the ship's figurehead ( as shown in the first illustration ), and that " Hope " is actually the Boots.

While Henry was reduced to being a figurehead king, de Montfort broadened representation to include each county of England and many important towns — that is, to groups beyond the nobility.

* 1932: October, at the Ningdu Conference, major CCP military leaders criticize Mao's tactics ; Mao is demoted to figurehead status.

Rodolfo Ferraresi, in his essay " The Question of Shub-Niggurath ", says that Lovecraft himself separated the two in his writings, such as in " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) in which a distinction is made between Shub-Niggurath and the Black Goat — the goat is the figurehead through which Shub-Niggurath is worshipped.

The most notable model of this type is the McGarvie Model, while Copernican models replace the Queen with a directly-elected figurehead.

Exodus 28: 8 ) represents Caiaphas, as figurehead of the Sadducees, then Annas is intended by the " father " in Luke 16: 27, and the " five brothers " Luke 16: 28 are Annas ' five sons.

J. R. " Bob " Dobbs is the figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius.

Kossil tells her openly to her face that no-one believes in the Nameless Ones anymore and that Arha is only a powerless figurehead.

Also it is an important national symbol serving as the nominal figurehead.

The position is largely an apolitical ceremonial figurehead role, with the real executive power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister.

* 1185: Taira is defeated ( Gempei War ) and Minamoto Yoritomo with the support ( backing ) of the Hōjō clan seizes power, becoming the first shogun of Japan, while the emperor ( or " mikado ") becomes a figurehead

Barbie is the figurehead of a brand of Mattel dolls and accessories, including other family members and collectible dolls.

In May 1933, the American chargé d ' affaires reported that " Baron von Neurath has shown such a remarkable capacity for submitting to what in normal times could only be considered as affronts and indignities on the part of the Nazis, that it is still quite a possibility that the latter should be content to have him remain as a figurehead for some time yet ".

A figurehead is a carved wooden decoration found at the prow of ships largely made between the 16th and 19th century.

The USS Lancaster Eagle | figurehead of USS Lancaster ( 1858 ) | USS Lancaster carved by John Haley Bellamy and on display at The Mariners ' MuseumIt is still common practise for warships to carry ships ' badges, large plaques mounted on the superstructure with a unique design relating to the ship's name or role.