do one's part

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Perhaps there remains a way to characterize the intention to do one's part that doesn't presuppose the notion of shared activity.

With each step, individual performance continues to melt into a collective need to do one's part.

Still, of course, it was depressing, a bleak place in which to do one's part in raising a child.

Originally, it came from the abbreviated "sabotage," "sabo," but it has become completely Japanified by adding the Japanese verb form "ru" and then taken on a somewhat divergent meaning: to play truant, to evade doing something one does not want to do, not to do one's part.

There could not be an obligation to do one's part in this activity (Bratman, 1999, 132 6).

To do one's part within such a cooperative enterprise is just to obey the laws, to act as a citizen.

Doing one's part in a cooperative project is a good reason for getting a share of the spoils; but so is the fact that the other is in need, has a wish, or is in pain.

How often in life does one's stomach not only be a part of the collective digestive history of our country, but also eat something a century in the making?

For example, we sometimes do one part of arthroscopically and one part open.

I mean, they do one part of what we do.

"Almost done," one said.