11.   It is a largely ceremonial role except in cases of tie votes, when the vice president casts the deciding ballot.

12.   It speaks to the distinctive ceremonial role, little known by outsiders, that quilts play in Native American communities.

13.   That prohibition continued after the postwar constitution relegated the emperor to a ceremonial role.

14.   The former king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, who recently returned from exile in Italy, is expected to have only a ceremonial role in the new administration.

15.   There is an American-Israeli idea floating around that Arafat should be reduced to a ceremonial role while others are installed to run the revamped PA.

16.   Weizman is notorious for stepping out of his ceremonial role to speak his mind.

17.   While turning the task of speaking over to his younger brother, Raul, Castro appeared in a ceremonial role, looking tired and stiff.

18.   While some of the departed say that was largely a ceremonial role until recently, Bunnell maintains he was always active in picking covers and generating story ideas.

19.   Outgoing President Constantine Caramanlis has served the maximum two terms allowed under the constitution in the mostly ceremonial role.

20.   A small central administration would retain a largely ceremonial role.