professional pride

There was the matter of her professional pride, after all.

I may be short on that, but you'll allow me my share of professional pride.

It would have been poor strategy, she said, with professional pride.

"Well then," I said with a certain amount of professional pride.

But it seemed more like purely a matter of professional pride.

He took a certain professional pride in his work, but there were some things that no amount of money could accomplish.

He found no professional pride in lying to her successfully.

I felt a rush of professional pride at the compliment.

"That's what libraries are all about," she said with professional pride.

I had touched his professional pride and he said it angrily.

His face is a study in exhaustion, fear, determination and professional pride.

I mean, it was a matter of professional pride.

A professional pride helped him deal with the bullying heat and the stained air.

"Their professional pride is hurt because they haven't come up with anything solid.

"There is a certain amount of professional pride you have to take in handling the ball.

But Ken had a professional pride those pricks would never understand.

It was nice to see samples of professional pride.

The pressures are nothing more than personal, professional pride.

He raised his voice, as if his professional pride had been wounded.

The trout stream, in particular, has a special significance for field staff and is a source of professional pride.

"All you can rely on is the professional pride of the players," said Torborg.

Professional pride aside, a local investigator would know the area better and be a hell of lot cheaper.

What is needed is a new attitude and professional pride in the law enforcement community.

Their front-line troops fight well enough, but not from patriotism, just professional pride.

I asked her, 'What about your curiosity, your professional pride?