strict discipline

collocation in English

meaningsofstrictanddiscipline

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strict
adjective
uk
/strɪkt/us
/strɪkt/
strongly limiting someone's freedom to behave as they wish, or likely to severely punish someone if they do ...
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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 ofstrictanddisciplinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Therefore,strictdisciplinein the context of an emotionally negative parent - child relationship is unlikely to foster a sense of containment.
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Strictdiscipline, uniforms, and regular salaries graded according to rank were essential to promote identity in and loyalty to the new corps.
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Another school that included many of the metropolitan producers favoured a statist approach with massive irrigation, plantation cultivation and labour force subject to astrictdiscipline.
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An infectious camaraderie exists amongst those who have worked here, but this ease can turn abruptly intostrictdiscipline, concomitant with the immense demands of the practice.
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They provide a brisk régime of hard work andstrictdiscipline; in other words, they provide a method of treatment after trial and conviction.
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Therefore, the conveyancing services, administered by members of my profession, are at least administered by a profession that is subject to wide andstrictdiscipline.
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Over the next few years we must all of us accustom ourselves to a regime ofstrictdiscipline.
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They realise the nature of a dog and know that it must be amenable tostrictdiscipline.
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By intensive training,strictdisciplineand incentive to care we shall hope to carry this improvement further.
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Great credit should be given to him for thestrictdisciplinewhich has been put into public spending decisions.
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In one ship there is astrictdiscipline, and yet everyone is happy and smiling and everything is all right.
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Surely, psychotherapists, who often use a similar technique, should be subject to the samestrictdiscipline.
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I gave no orders that there should be an unusuallystrictdiscipline.
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The police believe that part of the technique is to intimidate people as a method ofstrictdiscipline.
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The course consists ofstrictdiscipline, with attention to each individual case, and especially to each individual character.
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You were not subjected to the same sort ofstrictdisciplineand severe handling as other prisoners.
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Inmates will have a 16-hour day full of demanding activity and will be subject tostrictdiscipline.
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The only alternative to strict competition isstrictdiscipline, and the nationalised industries have neither.
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I found these young men suffering from a deep sense of frustration and bewilderment, especially with thestrictdisciplinewhich is imposed on them.
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