Sentence examples for doing one's part from inspiring English sources

In other cultures, there is more stress on fitting in with the group and doing one's part.

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.

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.

LONDON -- With historic budget cuts about to change the way the British live -- slashing children's benefits, freezing public salaries and trimming welfare rolls -- one must do one's part: Even the queen is cutting back.

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.

She goes so far as to say that the obligations to do one's part are present, even when one's partners in shared activity have coerced one into joining them.

To fail to do one's part in a cooperative enterprise is to wrong those who cooperate even when it does not clearly harm either them or the enterprise as such (Dagger 1997, p. 71).

We may understand the term 'corruption' simply to mean the advancement of personal or sectional interest at the expense of the public good, and 'civic virtue' as its opposite that is, a willingness to do one's part in supporting the public good.