lack of discipline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofanddiscipline
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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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Music theorists will criticize thelackofdiscipline.
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The third aspect of reduced state capacity, related to the problem of financial constraint, is thelackofdisciplinewithin security forces.
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Other women reject the validity of such accounts, and cite alackofdisciplineas the reason for their own or other women's increased weights.
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Rather than offering accounts, some women contended thatlackofdisciplinewas the underlying factor that had resulted in their increased weights.
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Sarmiento demonstrates a certainlackofdisciplineas he confronts the rigours of this style.
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Turnover would create economic disruption,lackofdiscipline, and cause a bidding war on labor and thus escalate wages.
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Inaccuracy, resulting from thelackofdisciplineof factory workers, was deemed by managers and engineers alike to be deleterious to both science and a company's profit.
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Lackofdisciplinein transactions is a particular threat to small and medium-sized enterprises in countries which have been hit by the economic crisis.
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Alackofdisciplinein the treatment of the files makes it possible to manipulate them by adding or removing documents.
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Thelackofdisciplineand direction in schools is closely linked to juvenile offenders.
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I agree that there is a certainlackofdisciplinewithin industry.
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The great problem, perhaps, islackofdiscipline.
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Finally, there was the completelackofdisciplinewhich seems to have been manifest throughout the exercise, when strict orders seem to have meant nothing.
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I suppose one would say thatlackofdisciplineis probably the primary cause.
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They are concerned about thelackofdiscipline, the decline in literacy and, above all, the decline in standards.
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So often there appears to be alackofdisciplinein the trade unions, leading to strikes that dislocate the whole of a business.
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I am not so sure it is a greatlackofdiscipline.
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The sweeping statement that there is alackofdisciplinein the mines is wrong, it is not true.
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That causes cost and delay in the prison discipline system, andlackofdisciplineaffects inmates and staff alike.
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