“…This is [4,Theorem 4.1] up to the type of the estimates (1.1), which are not necessarily linear in the quoted paper (the above formulation is [6, Theorem 9.7.1]). It is the crucial device in the construction of noncritical holomorphic functions and submersions from Stein manifolds ([4, Theorems 2.1 and 2.6]), or in the construction of the (families of the) exposing mappings of strictly pseudoconvex domains at boundary points (see [2,3,13], etc.). It is worth mentioning that the first application of this latter type was made in [5] in the problem of constructing proper holomorphic embeddings of Riemann surfaces to C 2 .…”