Sentence examples for a second in command from inspiring English sources

Just as the president of the United States has a vice president, the N.C.A.A. president needs a second in command.

Mr. Nyman said he supported the operations director post because the increasingly unwieldy municipality needs a second in command.

Mr. Daft also moved swiftly to name a second in command, Jack L. Stahl, a concept Mr. Ivester had resisted.

Mr. Gorman, 52, is still a young chief executive and does not see the need to publicly anoint a second in command, the people say.

M. Douglas Ivester, Coke's departing chairman and chief executive, steadfastly insisted during his short tenure that he did not need a second in command.

Tesla is not considering hiring a second in command, the electric carmaker's founder and chief executive, Elon Musk, said in wide-ranging comments to The New York Times.

The footnote included the information that on that night, after the Ayotzinapa students had been detained, a second-in-command of the Cocula Municipal Police, César Nava González, asked a commander of the Iguala police, Francisco Valladares, where the youths were being taken: "to the 27th Battalion or to Cereso,"a local detention center?

That's why struggling companies often recruit proven chief executives from the outside, rather than promote a second-in-command.

The word also appears in combination with other military and civilian titles to denote a second-in-command or one of lower rank.

Our cell has a chief and he has a second-in-command, and when you come in you are expected to give them some money.

Now playing a role approximating that of a second-in-command is a former Iraqi Army officer with the nom de guerre Abu Ali al-Anbari.