imposing discipline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimposinganddiscipline
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imposing
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpəʊ.zɪŋ/us/ɪmˈpoʊ.zɪŋ/
having an appearance that looks important or ...
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discipline
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪn/us/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪn/
training that makes people more willing to obey or more able to control themselves, often in the form of rules, and punishments if these are broken, or the behaviour produced by ...
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(Definition ofimposinganddisciplinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To summarize, we can say that the city played a major role in the creation of this new method ofimposingdiscipline.
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The renovadores failed to impose a standard organisational structure on the party and were unable to create an effective central bureaucracy capable ofimposingdisciplineon lower level organisations.
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That is a distinct division between the two ideas—the educational method ofimposingdisciplineand the military method of doing so.
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The executive councils in many cases have been rather lax aboutimposingdisciplineupon their members.
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They are lazy inimposingdisciplineon their troops.
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Imposingdisciplineby law is the least preferable method, but when other methods have failed, as they surely have, we must resort to it.
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That wasimposingdisciplinefrom the head office.
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Moreover, while the markets serve a useful purpose inimposingdiscipline, they can have destabilizing effects which need to be offset by international cooperation.
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I know the limitations on trade unions inimposingdiscipline.
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In some cases the parent should be much more involved inimposingdisciplineon children.
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Let us consider the customary method ofimposingdiscipline.
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Cruelly speaking, this is one way of making people work,imposingdisciplineand all that.
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In many of the blackboard jungles of our inner city areas the staff face great problems inimposingdiscipline and believe that there is a need for corporal punishment.
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Parents are made to feel that they have failed their children, have failed in their upbringing, and have failed inimposingdisciplineand giving care and love.
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This tradition was a tongue-in-cheek way ofimposingdisciplineon errant male members of college.
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