How To Use Disciplined In A Sentence

  • It's a disciplined approach to creating websites which involves a great deal of discussion about objectives.
  • His talent is raw and undisciplined.
  • If you are intelligent and disciplined enough to read dense books, then why do you lack faith in your own abilities to show discipline with a television set?
  • Cellphone users should be more self-disciplined.
  • Experienced, disciplined teams can frustrate the Tigers, who can fold under pressure.
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  • He tangled with other cardinals and disciplined church officials who dissented from official church policy.
  • France play with more flair and inventiveness, whereas England are a more disciplined side.
  • The patients were held to basic standards of decent behavior and made to do chores in an environment more like a disciplined summer camp (or a well-run college group home) than a madhouse or hospital.
  • This kind of undisciplined thought, or rather feeling, that mistakes a wish for a fact and leads to foolish policy decisions corrodes the soul of modern man.
  • But when restraints to which he had long been accustomed and to which he yielded passive obedience were removed, and he was left in a condition of license, all the abeyant passions of his undisciplined nature were brought into prominence and antagonism with an environment where reciprocal obligations have not always found their highest expression. The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
  • These English colonists were a pious, self - disciplined people who wanted to escape religious persecution.
  • The teacher disciplined the class by giving them extra homework.
  • His intelligence was pragmatic, solving problems with energy, verve and disciplined iteration. Times, Sunday Times
  • The speech proved shorter than predicted and far more organized and disciplined than some of his previous appearances before Congress.
  • But it will be a tight, disciplined budget with spending under disciplined control.
  • But the running, the vitamin drips and disciplined approach to eating are borne stoically. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a system that combines a disciplined step-by-step approach with a robust programme to modify how people work and behave in an organisation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Short of being caught red-handed stealing clients' money, accountants were rarely disciplined.
  • I do understand the frustration with indisciplined schools though which of course hurts the most disadvantaged most. Whacko ?
  • The guidance emphasises that restraint should be used as a last resort within a caring and disciplined home environment.
  • We put in a hardworking and disciplined performance, defended well when we had to and when our chances came we took them. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Scotland camp, it was claimed, was riven by punch-ups among its own players and ill-disciplined drinking bouts.
  • The large crowds at race courses and football matches, rumbustious but not often posing a real problem of public order, reflected a disciplined and orderly workforce.
  • His perception was that the desultory and undisciplined Chinese people did not deserve a democratic system.
  • A short time ago we were just an undisciplined mob.
  • The company's code crunchers might be boring and bland, but they are also disciplined and driven.
  • Normally the Colts ' most disciplined lineman, Glenn picked up two false-start penalties in the exhibition finale.
  • A professional actor who is appalled by the slack behaviour of an indisciplined group of amateurs seemed a good counterpoint for an uptight Christian coming amongst heathens. Playing with fire: The Wicker Man musical
  • The three daughters of my eldest daughter are rude, discourteous, and have never been disciplined.
  • He was subsequently disciplined for this behaviour and issued with a written warning. Computing
  • Overweight, overtired and overwrought with grief, Duncan presented an excessively undisciplined body.
  • Have they been fired, disciplined or reprimanded?
  • The word 'disciplined' ... is conceding that there used to be a problem, he said, adding that a publicly funded procurement could benefit Bombardier, owner of Britain's last remaining train factory, because it will not have to provide guarantees on private financing. Transport for London warns against PFI deal for Crossrail
  • I can now report from Palestine without having to worry about being hit by missiles from indisciplined IDF soldiers piggy kosher OPEN THREAD
  • A really quiet and disciplined audience lost themselves in symphonies of Schubert and Mozart.
  • By 1702, Robert Quary could report that the militia is ‘so undisciplined and unskillful and in such great Want of arms and ammunition proper and fit for action, that not one fourth of the militia is fit to oppose an Enemy.’
  • ‘It was a fiery, ill-tempered, ill-disciplined game,’ he said.
  • You have to be really disciplined in the way you think. Times, Sunday Times
  • They weren’t nearly as willing to accept the countercharge from the Obama campaign that Clinton herself had flip-flopped in answering the question (earlier in the year, while criticizing Bush’s recalcitrance about meeting with rogue leaders, she had expressed practically the same sentiment as Obama), because such a slip-up didn’t track with the emerging campaign narrative of Clinton as disciplined and savvy. Teacher and Apprentice
  • Walther Bothe was brilliant, disciplined, and notoriously thin-skinned Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics
  • She was not an unordinary child, she came from a large family with lots of kids who were also never spanked, they were not perfect children, but they were disciplined and well-liked, and having “lived” in their house, I could see no other heavy-handed parental shenanigans … and the question I asked myself was “So then … what is wrong with ME that I need to be hit in order to learn?” Sticks And Stones | Her Bad Mother
  • In short, purposeful and disciplined policy and funding strategies will have to overcome political inertia and resistance.
  • Apparently bloggers really are considered the barbarians at the gates - unrefined, undisciplined and uncivilized.
  • His was a textbook performance of disciplined self control and he did what was asked for team and country.
  • You must also be disciplined and set yourself goals. Times, Sunday Times
  • Similarly, bricolage requires a disciplined tossing out of rules and reinvention of old forms into new variations.
  • The mystic is seeking to transcend his ego and acquire a disciplined compassion - a crucial virtue in all religions.
  • For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. Jim Rohn 
  • A tight and disciplined band they are driven by the skills of drummer Rob Townsend.
  • These three constitute the Supernal Triad - those spheres which are wholly outside the realm of direct human experience for all but the most disciplined and ascetic individuals.
  • And that has made them very humble about those positions and very focused about doing the right thing and disciplined about duty. Times, Sunday Times
  • What follows is a story of a person, in his own words, who dealt with a language company called Interac in Yokohama, which disciplined him for being late for classes despite his explanation that his pregnant wife was undergoing complications. Debito.org
  • You are less influenced by flattery and promises and disciplined enough to focus on the facts. The Sun
  • But there are always things to lighten the gloom and one must be very disciplined and focus hard on them. Times, Sunday Times
  • You are less influenced by flattery and promises and disciplined enough to focus on the facts. The Sun
  • She bore him sons but had no idea how to keep order in his camp, how to receive the elders from his subclan and others; she was always late with meals, and her sons were undisciplined. Nomad
  • This was like a general who had lost a battle or some important territory being disciplined or shot.
  • People use the "family budget" analogy because we're supposed to respect the image of a thrifty, self-disciplined homestead. Richard (RJ) Eskow: The United States Isn't a Company and It Isn't a Family -- It's a Country.
  • We help members build the skill set to successfully transition from focused entrepreneurs to disciplined managers of wealth '. Times, Sunday Times
  • They told me the person responsible has been disciplined. The Sun
  • We're taking a little more disciplined approach toward training in golf than might have been done in the past.
  • Unsurprisingly, they found that highly self-disciplined adolescents out-performed their more impulsive peers, again and again. It's our narrow view of education that holds pupils back | Yvonne Roberts
  • Testing is about a disciplined approach to making the car go faster and you have to ignore the performance of the other teams. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a system that combines a disciplined step-by-step approach with a robust programme to modify how people work and behave in an organisation. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has no problem creating separation from defenders, but he runs undisciplined routes and rarely fights for the ball.
  • In another age, this happy flitting, governed only by that week's editorial whim, might have felt insubstantial or indisciplined. Times, Sunday Times
  • All her polemics and essays are written with a disciplined, jargon-free clarity.
  • The disciplined mem are inclined to line up for genuine menu.
  • The reasonably widespread if often vague notion that super-close reading results in undecidability rather than organic unity; the not uncommon, if typically undisciplined assertion that texts predict and choreograph the foibles of their interpreters — these tics of contemporary professional critical writing bear the faint but unmistakable trace of de Man's signature. Introduction
  • Witnesses testified that Martinez spoke about "fragging" -- or intentionally killing an officer -- and had previously threatened Esposito, who disciplined him for a poor job performance. FOXNews.com
  • Flexing my cramped limbs and wiggling my toes, I luxuriated in my undisciplined stance. Exit the Actress
  • So this was an untrained, undisciplined and unmotivated force that had no intention of attacking the townspeople.
  • He was subsequently disciplined for this behaviour and issued with a written warning. Computing
  • What most people are really talking about when they use the term innovation is more like what industrial historian Phil Scranton discusses as a variation, that is, "the disciplined change of an artifact's features or components, without affecting its core functions or capabilities" or a novelty that "references the creation of new artifacts within the domain of the known. Elliot Washor: Thoughts on Innovation
  • The speech proved shorter than predicted and far more organized and disciplined than some of his previous appearances before Congress.
  • He added that the system could also be used in future at other events where large, indisciplined crowds gather, such as football matches, Glastonbury and the TUC conference. Police to put on kettling software
  • Managers at the hospital have been disciplined following an investigation.
  • He also disciplined prison guards for screaming at inmates.
  • Officials deserve a modicum of sympathy in increasingly indisciplined times, but some forfeit it through their mistakes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The brigade commander will be disciplined for failing to manage his troops properly.
  • You have to be really disciplined in the way you think. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet, the possibility always remains that the signifying capabilities of the tongue, and, more generally, the body will exceed the narrow scope of its assignment, becoming rude, unmannerly, undisciplined, and uncivilized.
  • Pindars allegorize a division between disciplined and vulnerable bodies, true and false patriotism, manly and unmanly sentiment. 'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
  • A school-stationed social workers team organizes a graded student growth and counseling scheme to develop self-disciplined , responsible, healthy and loving students.
  • While you're bootstrapping along, being all disciplined and staying small and trying to get your ducks in a row, your competitors are spinning like crazy, hiring like crazy, growing like crazy.
  • Wales looked bedraggled and indisciplined. Times, Sunday Times
  • BA admits that not one single check-in worker has been disciplined in recent years for bunking off or skiving.
  • As one told me, "Caijing is a very self-disciplined media outlet.
  • In one school two bouncers were given permanent jobs as classroom supervisors but one was disciplined after clashing with staff. The Sun
  • They drank of the wineskins and staggered down the main street of the town weaving toward the disciplined line of approaching soldiers.
  • It is understood the bully is being made to repay all the money and will be disciplined. The Sun
  • So this was an untrained, undisciplined and unmotivated force that had no intention of attacking the townspeople.
  • In football anything is possible if you play organised, disciplined and tactically astute football. The Sun
  • He combined outstanding intellectual ability with a vigorous, highly disciplined, and formidable personality.
  • You have to be really disciplined in the way you think. Times, Sunday Times
  • You have to be really disciplined in the way you think. Times, Sunday Times
  • By contrast, work at the programme is a highly disciplined team effort which produces a breakthrough in only a small fraction of the complex cases they investigate. In pursuit of diseases that have no name
  • But the regime's counterattack has outmanoeuvred the poorly disciplined and ill-trained rebels who barely made a stand at Brega before fleeing toward Ajdabiya. Libya: blow to Gaddafi as foreign minister defects to UK
  • We will begin a new journey and this campus will then foster some new comers . I hope all your new students seize every minute here in Qilu to enrich yourselves, and to learn to be self-disciplined.
  • A senior civil servant has been disciplined for revealing secret government plans to the media.
  • Whether I disciplined him or ignored him, his actions would cause Kanisha to scream like an air-raid siren.
  • A senior civil servant has been disciplined for revealing secret government plans to the media.
  • He also delighted in needling O'Malley, apparently trying to disrupt the latter's eerily disciplined attachment to talking points stressing innovation, investment, education, and similar uplifting and visionary objectives. Ehrlich livens up Md. race but doesn't knock out O'Malley
  • Various forms of generalised insult and uncivil ad hominem attack have too often been the norm, and the opportunity for factual and disciplined analysis of where Lomborg's book may be wrong is largely forgone.
  • Maximizing their gains demands a disciplined and rational investment strategy that is truly national in its scope.
  • As they become proficient in handling their bikes they are subtly introduced to the need for disciplined behaviour on the road.
  • This is a serious, workman's dog, not the Pekinese or poodle that would denote a fop, and it is both relaxed and disciplined, which simultaneously demonstrates and justifies its confidence in the way things are.
  • Thus an Ohio guidance counselor was disciplined for telling a school secretary that two of the students she was counseling were homosexual.
  • They are disciplined and they are systematic in their approach to their job and their work. Times, Sunday Times
  • We need to make sure we are disciplined going into the game. Times, Sunday Times
  • Currently funds are forcing the committee to very strict and disciplined bookkeeping.
  • White players are perceived as the athletic equivalent of white businessmen and politicians: stodgy, dull and disciplined.
  • You must also be disciplined and set yourself goals. Times, Sunday Times
  • To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way. Corita Kent 
  • Carrey savours every flowery speech and villainous smirk in a performance that is more disciplined than one might have imagined.
  • This means drawing up a list before you leave home and being disciplined about sticking to it. The Sun
  • Are you self-directed, self-motivated, comfortable with computers, like to read and write, self-disciplined, independent and able to stay on task?
  • All were well disciplined in terseness and time-saving. CHAPTER IV
  • What's important for us to understand about these unreconciled , denied impulses is how they affect our ability to stay focused and take a disciplined, consistent approach to our trading.
  • But there are always things to lighten the gloom and one must be very disciplined and focus hard on them. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was subsequently disciplined for this behaviour and issued with a written warning. Computing
  • If you are a prudent, self-restrained and emotionally disciplined individual, you will be able to control your future in a better way. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Disciplined training can achieve a state in which the subconscious mind takes care of gun indexing and trigger control and the conscious mind is just along for the ride.
  • He believes that children who do not regularly eat with or talk to their parents can turn into anti-social, undisciplined individualists.
  • Saturn in your sign makes you disciplined and determined, and you'll go the extra mile to complete a task in style. The Sun
  • This produced numerous field executions and the frequent use of decimation against undisciplined units.
  • Assuming Microsoft canlimit the speed of such incursions, it would have a better chance of changing investor sentiment ifthe company was managed in a more disciplined way. Microsoft's Stock Deserves a Fresh Look
  • Only one state board had disciplined a physician for undertreatment of pain.
  • He seemed solid, unflappable, disciplined and optimistic, a man who would get off the canvas quickly if felled and resume with a smile.
  • Rita, beautifully and accurately played by Judy Holt, fulfils her personal goals and craving for a knowledge-filled, disciplined mind.
  • Yet the brilliance and disciplined attack of the string playing give fresh perspectives. Times, Sunday Times
  • Based on the stories of abuse from last summer, and more recently, I would estimate that there are probably five officers who need to be disciplined for their conduct towards homeless panhandlers.
  • It recommended that three officers should be disciplined and concluded that had the former governor not retired he too would have faced disciplinary proceedings. The Prisons We Deserve
  • They argue that democracy is messy, slow and directionless, and politicians to the last man are undisciplined, incompetent and corrupt.
  • The officers were disciplined for using racist language.
  • Their united and disciplined action also demonstrated an unvocalized demand for the right to associate and organize freely. 3. Non-Racial Trade Unionism in Historical Perspective
  • It's like writing haikus - it's such an exact and disciplined form.
  • She lived a disciplined life with continuous human interactions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lumbering was an attack operation, as thoroughly strategic and disciplined as a military siege.
  • This triggered an undisciplined period by Hertford who were baffled and incensed by the referee's decisions.
  • Can teachers be disciplined for publicly criticizing their immediate superiors?
  • The football team was disciplined by a professional trainer.
  • It was not, however, a triumph of thoroughly disciplined cricket, of well constructed sessions of play or of an overwhelming superiority over the host nation.
  • After about three months of heavy training we were a disciplined force of guerrilla fighters. Times, Sunday Times
  • For example, an educator can explain to a parent why a student was disciplined without being liable for defamation.
  • Throughout the twentieth century the metalworkers developed a reputation for ‘mindful militancy’: that is creative but disciplined use of industrial action to improve workers living standards.
  • Of course the sea here is far too calm for me- I love the crazy wild indisciplined Atlantic. Minds Find a Way Together in the Desert
  • At the age of 38 he says he still feels fit - the result of a disciplined approach to training and preparation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Depending on who the line manager was, you could be disciplined for not wearing it, and that was unacceptable.
  • Volunteers who were flashed the name of a self-disciplined friend did better on the test than those who were flashed the name of a non-self-disciplined friend. Social contagions
  • Once those processes are specifically defined, disciplined execution is the next vital ingredient.
  • her voice is superbly disciplined
  • Obama's Afghanistan policy has been the leakiest part of an otherwise fairly disciplined White House, a frustration for the president that culminated last year in a vow by Obama to fire anyone caught leaking about it. Obama's busy week ahead: Plugging leaked documents, post-Sherrod, plant visits
  • Stoic, perseverant and disciplined, they are a proud people of few words who shun the limelight.
  • There'll be opportunities to earn more via some extra work and you'll have a more disciplined approach to the way you spend. The Sun
  • The offenders will be severely disciplined.
  • Are you self-directed, self-motivated, comfortable with computers, like to read and write, self-disciplined, independent and able to stay on task?
  • There she inspected the results of a lifetime of disciplined diet and decades of rigorous ballet classes.
  • Old servants have left, and the new ones seem unmannered and undisciplined. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • In football anything is possible if you play organised, disciplined and tactically astute football. The Sun
  • The football team was disciplined by a professional trainer.
  • Undisciplined as the narrative may appear, it is handled with the art which conceals art.
  • Teaching can curb and tame an undisciplined enthusiasm.
  • Having cashed-in on the want-away, ill-disciplined and potentially disruptive Defoe, Pardew's signings look well-suited to the task of regaining the club's position back among the elite of English football.
  • Your men have behaved most admirably and have proven themselves to be the best disciplined and well mannered regiment in the British Army. Times, Sunday Times
  • Robert says things like, Ruaridh, try what I call 'disciplined micro-concentration' on presentation. Salmon are back in Scottish rivers in force, and as elusive as ever
  • In football anything is possible if you play organised, disciplined and tactically astute football. The Sun
  • They told me the person responsible has been disciplined. The Sun
  • Karol Sr was a self-disciplined martinet and a control freak who mapped out his sons' schedules, even their playtimes.
  • The survey also shows it is companies with successful plans that are more likely to have a disciplined approach to managing and monitoring their plan.
  • I regret to say, however, that his approach remains erratic and hopelessly undisciplined. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • If the guards and intel personnel aren't well led and well disciplined, you're bound to see problems.
  • However, it is critical that developers use the business language in code consciously and as a disciplined rule. MSDN Magazine: RSS Feed
  • Her own Tech professor wouldn't permit that kind of undisciplined behavior.
  • This produced numerous field executions and the frequent use of decimation against undisciplined units.
  • T hink the word begum and you conjure up an image of a Nawabi woman who leads a disciplined life behind the veil. The Hindu - Front Page
  • But he was undisciplined, a trait that no amount of talent can ultimately compensate for.
  • He tangled with other cardinals and disciplined church officials who dissented from official church policy.
  • A key ingredient in almost every successful colour scheme is the inclusion of just two main colours and an accent colour, so be disciplined in your choices.
  • This behaviour only started recently after she was disciplined for throwing food in the classroom, but I have to admit I am not sure of what to do next.
  • The covenant aims to establish a more disciplined engagement – a new kind of denominational quality assurance. Sugar and spice, or strychnine …
  • They were disciplined but will keep their jobs because of their genuine remorse. The Sun
  • He's still undisciplined, overanxious and - currently - saddled with injuries, but fun to watch regardless.
  • He was talented but sometimes indisciplined. Times, Sunday Times
  • But whereas the first act of her performance is disciplined, down-to-earth and munificent with wit, the second and third acts are inscrutable, new-agey and dull.
  • They're very strict at our school; one false step, and you're disciplined.
  • Home combined the hard rhythms of drum'n'bass with soulful vocals and disciplined pop songcraft. Times, Sunday Times
  • Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. Leave a Compliment Day
  • It's all part of Nige the showman's lumpy mix of music hall, jazz club Dvorák on harmonica, anyone? and rock concert, all chivvied along with lashings of bonhomie but set within the context of fiercely disciplined music-making. Nigel Kennedy/ Orchestra of Life; Sir Charles Mackerras Memorial Concert; Jonas Kaufmann
  • For this reason, leaders with high personal mastery are more likely to exhibit a disciplined pattern of behaviour that is guided by a deep personal vision and enduring moral principles.
  • I nodded as I thought about my loving grandparents, Orville and Erma Gray, yet I found it hard to see my dad as the small boy born into the impoverished, undisciplined lifestyle. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
  • One thing Hillary Clinton supporters can not deny is Obama's campaign has been much more disciplined and effective, has had no turn-over in key campaign ranks, has properly managed its finances, versus the circus that is Hillary Clinton's campaign, surprising considering her "experience" should have got her a better campaign staff. Clinton rallies union in Puerto Rico
  • The pacy, busy, vibrant winger has been replaced by a more thoughtful, more disciplined player.
  • However, over the last decade the urge has been transformed and channeled into a highly focused, disciplined school of through-composed, what the Germans once called durchkomponiert, improvisational music.
  • Any expression of class solidarity was trampled underfoot and the working class suppressed and disciplined.
  • Our performance against Newport was very undisciplined.
  • As a jockey I disciplined myself to put money aside to pay my tax bills, which were for tens of thousands of pounds.
  • His talent is raw and undisciplined.
  • Saturn in your sign makes you disciplined and determined, and you'll go the extra mile to complete a task in style. The Sun
  • And it's no surprise. Nobody with any choices would agree to stand up in front of an undisciplined rabble every day.

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