Maintaining a friendly but professional demeanor can be important to in audit or tax dispute.

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Stand your ground and talk through the anger or sadness that is showing through your professional demeanor.

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As I caught his eye when he frisked my outstretched arms, he whispered to me while maintaining his professional demeanor.

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Internet gossipers have hit back at Roubini for liking to party, considering him sort of hypocritical given his serious, quasi-painful professional demeanor.

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