conduct oneself

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“I learned a lot from Lupita and the way to conduct oneself in an environment like that. She’s punctual, brave, fearless and knows exactly what she wants and what she doesn’t want.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

Business etiquette training can include a wide variety of topics — professionalism in the office and on Zoom, giving feedback, proper dress code, remembering names and how to conduct oneself during a business lunch.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2024

But in doing so it was an act of disrespect, and it provided an example of how not to conduct oneself at his age or anyone else’s.

From Golf Digest • Jun. 16, 2018

It doesn’t “require fine-grained legal knowledge”, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in 2013, to discern that line or how one may conduct oneself within it.

From Economist • May 30, 2018

To behave as a citizen is "to conduct oneself as pledged to some law of life."

From Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati by Herrick, Warren Crocker