Sentence examples for serving as second in command from inspiring English sources

In 1964 he moved to the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT) in New York City, serving as second in command to the president and chairman, Harold Geneen.

After serving as second in command of a French mission that traversed the whole of Madagascar (1889 90), Maistre was put in charge of an expedition (1891) to investigate the navigability of the rivers in the Congo River basin.

The letter to Bridgeman, by then first sea lord after serving as second-in-command of three different fleets and then commander-in-chief of the home fleet, has been bought from his descendants for £78,816 with grants and donations, and will go on display with the other letters.

This homogeneous crowd comes up with the exquistely class-conscious "Wire," in which Stringer Bell (Idris Elba) alone is a one-man class-war zone, taking business courses at a community college while serving as second-in-command to the more brutal, less intelligent, still-incarcerated Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris), a target of the police since Season One.

In September 1903, he was transferred to HMS Locust to serve as second-in-command.

McCarthy had served as fourth-in-command of Rajneeshpuram, and was known by Rajneesh's followers as Ma Yoga Vidya.

In 1928, Khrushchev was transferred to Kiev, where he served as second-in-command of the Party organization there.

García paid for additional Spanish soldiers from his own funds, as did José Fernández de Estenos, a Campeche resident who was to serve as second-in-command.

In the summer of 1756 Gage served as second-in-command of a failed expedition to resupply Fort Oswego, which fell to the French while the expedition was en route.

Shelby's military service began when he served as second-in-command to his father at the Battle of Point Pleasant, the only major battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

He served as second in command to General J.E.B. Stuart and, after Stuart's death, led the cavalry corps.