"I will see to it that the proper channels are opened."

I haven't got time to go through the proper channels, but there's a man's life on the line here.

And she thought: Now, it goes in the proper channel.

Her husband might want justice, but he wanted it through the proper channels.

Unless you've got a clear order through the proper channels please don't do anything over here.

I could go through the proper channels but that would take too much time.

But when it comes to doing things the way they should be done, through proper channels, you're about 2.0.

"He wanted to work through the proper channels to get something accomplished."

"No Soviet official has called or written and we have to go through the proper channels."

At the hospital, he found out you had left outside the proper channels.