(n.) One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.
(n.) A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crosby, who is praised as a highly effective disciplinarian, has instructed Tories to ram home two key messages: the party has a serious “long-term economic plan” for the future and voters are being offered a binary choice at the election between the competence of the Tories and the chaos of Labour.
(2) Joe was a disciplinarian who ruled the family with an iron rod.
(3) Paolo Di Canio is convinced Sunderland would have been relegated if he had not replaced Martin O'Neill at the end of March and believes his disciplinarian approach to management can bring success to Wearside next season.
(4) The abuse allegations are centred on the Cambridge House hostel in Rochdale where Smith, who died in 2010, was allegedly given "a disciplinarian role".
(5) Lindsay Lohan's father told the tabloids that his daughter tried the Betty Ford Center's disciplinarian model but found Cliffside much more to her liking.
(6) His calm, clear and collaborative manner helped lift the spirit of a team who had become rather morose under his disciplinarian predecessor, Claude Puel , and he fostered a vibrant attacking style while remaining versatile enough to use a variety of formations.
(7) This patient's mother was a strict, harsh disciplinarian who insisted upon total compliance as a condition for her approval and love.
(8) Disciplinarian advice has alternated with liberal advice ever since: for every Gina Ford advocating controlled crying, there has been a liberal antidote – a Dr Spock or Penelope Leach – although sometimes it is hard to distinguish the liberal from the prescriptive: British psychologist John Bowlby, for instance, was liberal about children's behaviour, but less so when it came to that of mothers.
(9) He could maybe relate better to the grandchildren but to us, the children, all he knew is to be a strict disciplinarian and to provide.
(10) This has further rattled the markets as his replacement Nelson Barbosa is less of a fiscal disciplinarian.
(11) Like Le Guen, Lacombe has a reputation as a fierce disciplinarian.
(12) This isn't the charming hero we're used to seeing Pitt play; he's jowly and sulky and racked with a sense of failure, a threatening and disciplinarian family presence.
(13) Buttoned-up, disciplinarian, characterised by an almost corporate efficiency, they outwardly suggest enviable success: every year since 1996, for example, Emmanuel College's GCSE results have put it in the top 12 nonselective British state schools.
(14) Paterno, who was seen at the time as a disciplinarian, then texted two of the players to advise them on avoiding the campus adjudication process.
(15) Relative to anxiety neurotics, the neurotic depressives recalled fathers as unloving disciplinarians and recalled mothers as difficult to please, intrusive and controlling, and possibly more concerned with their own than with their children's needs.
(16) "He trained him as a teenager, saw that raw potential and imagined what it could become - Moyes can talk to Rooney and motivate him as no other manager can by referring to their shared past, and he seems to be at least as stern a disciplinarian as Ferguson, which in the case of Rooney could reap positive rewards, as Ferguson seems to have treated him as a wayward yet still favoured son, occasionally punishing his bad behaviour yet ultimately tolerating off-field bad habits that limit his on-field performance.
(17) So to what extent he was a dictator, or to what extent he was a strict disciplinarian, I really do not know."
(18) The alcoholic women were less accepting, more rejecting, disciplinarian, or overprotecting, and they displayed a significantly greater degree of conflicting attitudes.
(19) We have an idle chat about her pregnancy: she's more keen to talk about it than I expected, confessing that she's not worried about the birth, that she thinks she'll be a "disciplinarian" as a parent, and that "we haven't done anything about a baby room.
(20) Knowing his growing reputation as a hardline disciplinarian, the manager joked that he shot only three players after a wretched first-half display.
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.