The phrase "basic disciplines" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to fundamental or essential areas of study or knowledge. Example: The university's core curriculum includes courses in basic disciplines such as math, English, and science.
Fungi continue to be useful for studying cell and molecular biology, genetic engineering, and other basic disciplines of biology.
"We've said repeatedly that we did lose our focus in some of the basic disciplines," a Ford spokeswoman, Della DiPietro, said.
While spendthrift Chrysler was pouring money into investment, basic disciplines such as cost and quality were being neglected.Chrysler had to do one more thing besides facing up to globalisation and relearning elementary management disciplines.
The new proposals provide for able-bodied jobseekers to do regular four-week stints of manual labor, at tasks like removing graffiti, sweeping streets or gardening in public parks, as the price of retaining their state allowances — and, as the government has explained it, to learn basic disciplines like working a 9-to-5 day.
A simple way to understand what happened to Japan in the 1980s and 1990s is that a country with many strengths, especially a high average level of education, formidable technology and powerful social co-ordination within companies, came to lose its basic disciplines and incentives, particularly in the late 1980s when it experienced one of the biggest asset booms in world history.
Disciplinary collaborations occur more frequent in basic disciplines; interdisciplinary collaborations more in strategic disciplines.
Excluding the better funds, there was a huge change in terms of throwing every basic discipline to the wind.
Checkpoints punctuate virtually every street and intersection in Baghdad, but basic discipline often appears lax at them.
And in a school where basic discipline is a daily problem, getting rid of those students can make it easier to maintain order for those who do show up and do their work.
Busy lives, said Mr. Xenakis, create a need -- as well as an excuse -- for parents to farm out many aspects of child care, right down to basic discipline and the setting of moral standards.
But while astonished I am hardly surprised – the cumulative impression of the security breaches in a number of ministries over the past few months is of a slack and slapdash bureaucracy careless of basic discipline.
