Sentence examples for had been professional from inspiring English sources

Navy spokesman Lieutenant Tim Hawkins said the conversation on Thursday had been "professional and productive".

Goldman stressed that it had lost $90m on the transaction, known as Abacus 2007-AC1, and tried to argue that its clients had been professional investors highly experienced in the complex financial instruments they were buying.

The U.S. Embassy in Libreville said — via a somewhat contradictory Facebook post — that the election had been professional yet marked by "many systemic deficiencies and irregularities". Riots broke out, too, in 2009 when Ali Bongo won his first election.

But he said Ms. Adams had been "professional," and he was particularly critical of Ms. Smith because of her Sunday article, in which she characterized Mrs. Trump as a partner in his business affairs.

"If they had been professional espionage operatives whose cover was blown then they might have been sent to work in closed training establishments run by the intelligence services," he said.

But he was mindful that his recommendations had bolstered Richmond's career for years, and he wanted to be sure that Richmond's behavior while on the GWU faculty had been professional.

In spite being graduate students, their profiles indicated most of them were or had been professionals.

The only relationship they had was professional, hers on the business side and his the artistic side.

He has not done that and he has been professional".

The pair have been professional partners ever since.

They could have been professional (cost accountants perhaps), but they could also have been skilled artisan.