Sentence examples for essentially second from inspiring English sources

He later became head of exterior design for G.M., then of design for G.M. of Europe and returned to Michigan as director of design — essentially, second only to the vice president of design.

Ms. Castagna has been essentially second in command, holding the title of chief executive of the company's retail stores as well as its catalog and Internet businesses and reporting directly to Mr. Questrom.

This parameter-uniform convergence is shown to be essentially second order.

So if our cars are essentially second homes, shouldn't they be awesome places to live?

Bohlen, now chief of the State Department's Soviet section, introduced him to Harriman, Roosevelt's new Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Harriman offered Kennan the position of minister-counsellor — essentially, second-in-command.

The leading roles, those of the producer and the maturing but still remarkably bouncy star, are played by José Ferrer and Gloria Swanson, and there is a quality of bogus majesty, of the essentially second-rate masquerading as the great, about both their performances that is comic acting of the highest possible order.

The PCs-forever attitude was so pervasive that the people working on the company's mobile-chip line, the Atom, were essentially second-class citizens, without access to Intel's latest production technologies and the resources lavished on the Core line of PC chips and the Xeon line of server chips.

The Champions League group stage makes the turn for home with what are essentially second-leg games from Matchday 3. Several of the favorites that won at home that day — Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen, A.C. Milan, Barcelona — will be looking to repeat the feat on the road and lock up places in the knockout stages.

Izy's cheapest option – essentially fourth-class travel – involves standing up against the bar in the buffet carriage for the entire duration of the journey.

Note also that it is an essentially second-order notion.

Notice that the sentence σ2 contains an infinite quantifier: it expresses the essentially second-order assertion that every countable subset has a least member.