breakdown of discipline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbreakdownanddiscipline
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breakdown
noun
uk/ˈbreɪk.daʊn/us/ˈbreɪk.daʊn/
a failure to work 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 ofbreakdownanddisciplinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I believe that the problem we face today originates from abreakdownofdisciplinein society.
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We face abreakdownofdisciplinein society.
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Thebreakdownofdisciplineto-day has mainly affected the managers and trade union officials.
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The coroner did not say that the troops got out of hand, and at no time was there any kind ofbreakdownofdiscipline.
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I tend to think that teachers reap the ill wind of thebreakdownofdisciplinein many areas of our community and society.
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It is argued that there is a danger, unless you have the death penalty in the background, of a generalbreakdownofdiscipline.
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It would be folly to ignore that there has been abreakdownofdisciplinein a large number of our schools.
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We can see thebreakdownofdisciplinein our schools and at football matches.
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The problems that we face today result from thebreakdownofdiscipline, whether in the home, at school or the world at large.
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However, throughout the country there are complaints about thebreakdownofdisciplinein areas where neither of those two factors applies.
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There has been, it is widely believed, abreakdownofdiscipline, because teachers cannot know all their pupils and do not even know each other.
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Then we have thebreakdownofdisciplinein schools.
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As a result, of course, there was a totalbreakdownofdiscipline.
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Those soldiers faced investigations forbreakdownofdiscipline.
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