(v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
(v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
Example Sentences:
(1) When first chosen, it seemed the most notable thing about Welby was that he had been a successful businessman: a man who understood money and could chastise bankers in their own language.
(2) We may never know what Dimbleby really thinks about Griffin's appearance on Question Time because he is careful to avoid expressing an opinion, although he seems to relish wading into the BBC's internal politics and is one of the few presenters who can get away with chastising his bosses.
(3) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
(4) Equally, though, because patriotic pride was so intimately linked to economic success, the sudden downturn was felt, keenly, in terms of collective shame and chastisement – and a fear of a return to the "bad old days".
(5) Chinese state media has chastised Kerry for highlighting US concerns over China’s increasingly aggressive claims to disputed territory in the east and south China seas.
(6) Eventually Howard heard about this, and took to Twitter to chastise us for wasting our time .
(7) In 1989, Murdoch delivered the annual MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival, chastising the British broadcasting establishment for making programmes he claimed were "no more than a reflection of the value of the narrow elite".
(8) Hanlin has refused to name the gunman out of deference to the victims and their families, and chastised the media for reporting his name, saying it “glorified” a murderer.
(9) In a speech seen as revenge for the so-called Plebgate scandal, she accused some officers of "contempt for the public", dismissed the idea that problems in the police were down to a "few bad apples", and announced the end of public funding for the federation; a move more symbolic than anything else, but indicative of the chastising message she wanted to send out.
(10) And last week, he let his exasperation be known on Twitter – first taking aim at the Washington Post for quoting anonymous sources while musing about his future and then chastising NBC’s Today show for producing a political package from a tour he took of an embattled housing complex in Jacksonville, Florida, subsidized by the federal government.
(11) Kenneth Clarke , the lord chancellor, once famously chastised his Labour predecessors for conducting prisons policy with a chequebook in one hand and the Daily Mail in the other.
(12) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
(13) Actually, that’s just what he does, writing (apparently in retrospect from California) about three days in December 1949 when, having been chastised by his school “for not applying myself”, he plays truant over a long and memorable weekend in Manhattan.
(14) In the late 1960s and early 70s when Smith was a prominent and powerful figure in Rochdale it has been reported that some people in the town used to send their unruly children to Smith's home on Emma Street to be chastised.
(15) Obama is fine when speaking and when he smiles but in between he looks like a chastised child, while Romney keeps the message simple - he has prepared well I'm not surprised, Romney did well at this game in the Republican debates although he was a bit brittle at times.
(16) Pickles chastised the chairman of the EA, Lord Smith, saying he would not be wearing a "save Chris Smith" T-shirt if the peer decided to quit.
(17) He admitted he had failed to "treat the police with the respect they deserve" while chastising the officers for making him use a side exit.
(18) Hillary Clinton spent Tuesday morning in Washington being chastised by an unexpectedly stern director of the FBI , but a few hours later she was flying free – cleared at least of the threat of criminal charges and heading to her first campaign rally alongside the commander-in-chief, with only political storms on the horizon.
(19) On the night, Sean Penn chastised him for his taunting of Jude Law; other targets included Nicole Kidman and then president George W Bush.
(20) TPP trade deal: Abbott chastises critics for 'short-term, xenophobic politics' Read more “I defend what we’re doing in the most aggressive way,” Robb said.
Discipline
Definition:
(n.) The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
(n.) Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
(n.) Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
(n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
(n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
(n.) The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
(n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
(n.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
(n.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
(v. t.) To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
(v. t.) To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.
(v. t.) To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
(v. t.) To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(2) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(3) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
(4) The decrease of the A.L.O.S., the extra-regional recruitment and the shift of in-patient care toward day care show the development of specialization of this discipline.
(5) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(6) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(7) And what did you have to do to get fired for Libor fiddling, rather than simply disciplined?
(8) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
(9) This means the work of the giant but highly disciplined RSS, as well as smaller fringe groups such as the Bajrang Dal, can be critical.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(11) His teams are always hard to beat, tactically disciplined and, most importantly, successful.
(12) Recent theoretical developments in health psychology and allied disciplines on coping behaviour and social support should be integrated into biomedical models of the aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical course of malignant neoplasia.
(13) Would the Greek crisis have been avoided if Europe had stuck to fiscal discipline?
(14) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
(15) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
(16) Under Xi some of the party’s most powerful figures have been humiliated and jailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of party officials disciplined across the country.
(17) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
(18) Our discussion has dealt with the nature of our field as a science and also as a discipline, the nature of the training for it, the nature of its research, and the nature and scope of its professional practice.
(19) This allows the advantages of multidisciplinary training to be retained, despite earlier specialization, since the subjects studied need not necessarily be restricted to the traditional pathology disciplines.
(20) In order to maximize the prognosis, it is necessary to understand the patient, to make a thorough diagnosis, to coordinate the restoration with the other disciplines of dentistry, and to be knowledgeable of the spectrum of treatment modalities available.