(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.
Martinet
Definition:
(n.) In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.
(n.) The martin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lendl and Mauresmo are former world No1s but he is an unsmiling martinet with a cutting line in sarcasm, she a mentor who chooses her words like a schoolteacher.
(2) The youth-led Nuit debout movement, which grew out of protests against labour reforms , has been holding night-time sit-ins and debates nationwide since 31 March, earning praise from figures such as William Martinet, leader of the students’ union Unef.
(3) Finally he emphasizes Martinet's qualities of loyalty and intellectual honesty, as well as his role as creator and director of a team (Broca, and later Epee de Bois).
(4) Chris Bryant, the former minister for Europe and chairman of the parliamentary all-party Russia group, said in a statement: "Having visited the trial and seen for myself the farcical way in which it was being conducted, with ludicrous trumped up charges and a petulant martinet of a prosecutor, it is entirely predictable that [Khodorkovsky] has been found guilty."
(5) On the basis of Martinet's functional linguistics, Chomsky's generative grammar and Piaget's cognitive psychology, the authors conclude that the psychopathology underlying hebephrenic speech is a disturbance of language rather than of parole and that hebephrenic syntactical distortions are linked to the disturbance in the balance between assimilation and accommodation characteristic of schizophrenic thought processes.
(6) They compare them to the european ones (Nally-Martinet).
(7) The Alps are a unique area for attracting skiers – of whom 30% are foreign – but the expansion in the skiing market is elsewhere, in Russia, China and central Asia.” Enrico Martinet, La Stampa Poland Facebook Twitter Pinterest A walk on the beach after sunset on the Polish Baltic Sea coast near Choczewo.
(8) William Martinet, the leader of the students’ union UNEF , welcomed the proposals as “important measures for the young”.
(9) However, no "modern" retention complex (Nally & Martinet--R.P.I.--R.P.A.--"equipoise"...)
(10) I have seen more than enough of the spirit-sapping martinet stupidity of French management to confirm the confessions of corporate slacker Corinne Maier's Bonjour Paresse (Hello laziness!
(11) Stress is laid on the words of Martinet and Tubiana in 1950 "...treatment of varicose veins is far from being as simple as many believe...".
(12) Martinet, the author, who was his collaborator for more than 25 years, surveys his phlebological work, so diverse and so multiple that it embraces all subjects of the venous pathology of the lower limbs.
(13) A director is not a father, you have to find the part for yourself.” Callow, too, recoiled when the “meditative experimenter” of Joint Stock workshops became a “Toscanini-like martinet”.
(14) Chris Bryant, the chairman of the all-party Russia group in the UK parliament, said in a statement: "Having visited the trial and seen for myself the farcical way in which it was being conducted, with ludicrous trumped up charges and a petulant martinet of a prosecutor, it is entirely predictable that [Khodorkovsky] has been found guilty."
(15) The Guardian understands that the Southampton left-back is being bought without the approval of Van Gaal, so to hear how this squares with the martinet manager of repute who needs total control over team matters could be revealing.
(16) Martinet also expressed his support for the Nuit debout action, praising the “thousands of people who are gathering for democratic debates”.