Assertion: president | /r/HasProperty | symbolic figure
Facets:
value: merely
type: DEGREE
value: with the reichstag dominant
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Initially, the president was merely a symbolic figure with the Reichstag dominant; however, persistent political instability, in which governments often lasted only a few months, led to a change in the power structure of the republic, with the president's emergency powers called increasingly into use to prop up governments challenged by critical or even hostile Reichstag votes.