One possibility is that, by being asked to review a paper, one's professional standing is on the line.

He wants to get out of here, but his professional standing is at stake.

"Your professional standing is not what it used to be, Peter."

The result, he contended, was a compromise of its credibility and professional standing.

What if he, like every other man in her life, could not accept her professional standing?

Traveling with children can also diminish one's professional standing, some suspect.

It gives us the professional standing we need in the academic community.

Getting busted by the feds wouldn't exactly help my current professional standing.

"Sure," the guard said, as if his professional standing had been doubted.

Thus was initiated the foremost factor in the high professional standing of the corps to the present day.