| She is truly formidable, rather like one of those fantastic figureheads on a tall ship. |
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| The incomers were principally craftsmen, carving ships' figureheads and occasional portrait busts. |
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| Galleries showcase an international collection of ship models, figureheads, small craft, paintings, and antique navigation instruments. |
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| There are numerous maritime antiques, pictures and figureheads as well as ship models to be found throughout. |
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| Some boats are shown with cabins, prows and figureheads and some carry animals. |
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| Because figureheads were intended to lead the ship onward in a rush of motion, neoclassical figures, in the final analysis, were not compatible. |
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| In the merchant marine figureheads portraying the skip's owner or builder and their wives, daughters, or sweethearts were popular. |
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| There were handsome ships anchored in the harbor, many-sailed with delicately carved figureheads. |
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| In America during the colonial era there had been many wood carvers creating ship's figureheads and church furnishings. |
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| It is essential that diversity leaders be more than figureheads if they are to provide transformative leadership to their campuses. |
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| By 2011, the world was basically under the control of these five men, country leaders basically being political figureheads. |
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| First, keep in mind that news anchors, like other constitutional monarchs, are primarily figureheads. |
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| The mayors ruled the Franks in all essential points, and the Merovingians were mere figureheads. |
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| We need to look past the figureheads of the genre, and focus on brilliant outliers. |
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| Examples of women as ornamentation can be traced back to the use of female figureheads on the prows of ships. |
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| Then, we had great leaders, great figureheads running clubs, but they didn't have to keep putting their hands in their pockets to bail their teams out. |
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| Included are live demonstrations by a museum carver on how sailors depicted women on figureheads which, when placed on the bow of a ship, served to ward off harm at sea. |
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| The ruling class may jettison figureheads who have served their interests for years, but they organise and manoeuvre to ensure their rule is restabilised. |
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| Although the public saw the usual hands at the wheel of the ship of state, they were as decorative as the figureheads on the bows of old sailing ships. |
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| Clan chiefs are now largely figureheads who can choose the level of involvement they have with a clan society and defer duties and titles to others. |
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| Humphreys turned to Rush for preliminary designs for all the figureheads and stern carvings, and for a list of carvers who could accomplish the work in a timely fashion. |
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| But Harry Hopkins was no mere manipulator of people and ideas, no eminence grise masterminding the actions of figureheads. |
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| Wilhelm II wanted to reassert his ruling prerogatives at a time when other monarchs in Europe were being transformed into constitutional figureheads. |
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| Most of the figureheads date from the middle and end of the 19th century and come from merchant sailing vessels or early steamships that were wrecked on the Isles of Scilly. |
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| By the middle of the 8th century, however, the Merovingians had been reduced to figureheads, and the Carolingians, led by Charles Martel, had become the de facto rulers. |
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| Figureheads were used to add a decorative flourish and prestige to ships and steamers in an age when the vessels were the quickest and most comfortable mode of transport. |
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