Sentence examples for number two person from inspiring English sources

In the news today is the speculation that his number two person may in fact be black.

For instance, we'd ask the number two person in pricing at another airline to come run our pricing department.

So to run SystemBank, I recruited the number two person from Unisys Japan and the number one person in computing from the Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank.

At the time, in the mid-1980s, I viewed myself quite inaccurately, I should add as the number two person in the company.

Now she's the number two person in the company, a celebrity in direct sales and a motivational speaker beyond it.

This includes the hiring of a strong number two person who could take over the company from me.

It takes a finite number: one person to perform the task and an additional number to act in a manner stereotypical of the group to which they belong.

"As a matter of fact they consider — and they reiterated this to me yesterday — they consider Michael as the number one person for the Romney camp," Mr. Molinari said in an interview.

There was just one minor problem: the man described by President Bush and others within his administration as a "top operative", the "number three person" in al-Qaida, and al-Qaida's "chief of operations" was never even a member of al-Qaida, much less an individual who was among its "inner circle".

At one time, the US government claimed he was the planner of the 9/11 attacks, the number two or number three person in al Qaeda, a "lieutenant" to Osama bin Laden, and a man involved in every major al Qaeda operation dating back to the mid 1990s.

I immediately flashed back to Bill Maher's "new rule" in April 2007 about the importance of competence, and how Bush's anti-intellectual, political, competence-disdaining approach to staffing was epitomized by Monica Goodling, who was the number three person at the Justice Department before she resigned as part of the U.S. Attorney scandal.