This move not only ended Sukarno's merely ceremonial presidential role, but also increased the army's influence and power as Nasution had wished for.

They decided to significantly curb the powers of the president, to a point merely ceremonial.

By the middle of the 20th century the provinces had become merely ceremonial.

Somehow, he noted over his shoulder, they contrived to make it seem merely ceremonial.

Charles' attacks of illness increased in frequency such that by the end of the 1390s his role was merely ceremonial.

It is not merely ceremonial, not at more than 100 miles an hour, and Yeager loves it.

Today, by agreement of the two parties, the Majority Leader selects the Secretary of the Senate, and the election is merely ceremonial.

Their nudity was no longer erotic, merely ceremonial.

But growing numbers of Spaniards are questioning whether bullfighting is even a sport, or merely unnecessary ceremonial cruelty to animals.

While the king is generally reckoned as having a merely ceremonial role in politics, he commands great moral authority as an essential symbol of the country's unity.