Sentence examples for doing the proper thing from inspiring English sources

He should some empathy about how emotionally painful it was for her to be left behind; she needed to understand that he was doing the proper thing as a son to visit his mother and was not just escaping his wife.

Gallant tried to show his love by doing the proper thing: He purchased a greeting card with a sappy message.

And instead of doing the proper thing, which is to go by a person's social security number and get their legal address from the tax authorities, someone at the Sami council electoral register just googled "Elin Unnes" and I popped up.

They did the proper thing".

"I would hope the court would do the proper thing".

I'm looking to do the proper thing".

"The back judge did the proper thing and apologized that he missed the call".

Which was not the same as even considering that I might do the proper thing and return the drum to Sarah Tatro.

Mr. Vance then read a statement, saying that he had done the proper thing "ethically and legally" by allowing Mr. Strauss-Kahn to be freed.

Rudd by contrast is the man who wouldn't accept his fate, who wouldn't do the proper thing and accept his redundancy.

He also told the law enforcement officials that he had gone to some lengths to try to do the proper thing in certain instances.