What people want to hear from the second-highest-ranking elected official in the state are his views on property taxes, traffic, growth.

The Mayor is usually the most recognized official in cities, although the position is the second-highest-ranking official in charge after the local Communist Party Secretary.

Because of the agency's prominence, Mr. Roberts in effect becomes the second-highest-ranking black official in the administration, after Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington.

It is proclaimed by the host, or if the host is the King himself, by the second-highest-ranking official.

Commissioner William Waldman said that he was putting the department's second-highest-ranking official in charge of the agency until working conditions and morale improved for the agency's 1,113 caseworkers.

The second-highest-ranking official in the Police Department said yesterday that he was retiring to take a job as the director of worldwide security for Merrill Lynch.

United States Deputy Attorney General is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice.

Deputy Attorney General (DAG) is the second-highest-ranking official in a department of justice or of law, in various governments of the world.

It usually happens in the 14th-floor offices of the New York Police Department's second-highest-ranking official.

From 1991 to 1993, she served as United States Department of Agriculture's Deputy Secretary, the first woman appointed as the Department's second-highest-ranking official.