Sentence examples for empty discipline from inspiring English sources

The extra was maybe some kind of social sauce to distract one from the fact that it was an empty discipline.

Karate, ( Japanese: "empty hand") unarmed martial-arts discipline employing kicking, striking, and defensive blocking with arms and legs.

"My ineffective way to discipline was yelling empty threats, such as...'.when we get home, you will go immediately into time out!' -- and of course, it would never happen".

Like Nur, she says her old freedoms were empty and unsatisfying in comparison with the discipline she discovered when she began to read about Islam, and finally converted a few months before coming to Tarim.

You don't expect to be empty-handed when you are trying to discipline your classmates: you must make sure that you are able to give them sanctions and be able to justify these punishments.

In April , 23eighth graders from the Rye City School District were disciplined after they took over an empty house and drank alcohol over two days, said Edward J. Shine, the schools superintendent.

"The dream of equality is empty without excellent schools, schools that stress reading and discipline and character and decency," Mr. Bush said.

Law is an empty vessel into which you have to pour other disciplines.

Evidence of this discipline can be seen at airports around the country, where empty seats are increasingly difficult to find and fares have jumped.

Those 30km of empty road were symbolic of the expanding political space between the military and the "discipline-flourishing democracy" they have brought into being.

But Mr Macqueen manages to get behind the man's gruff exterior, suggesting that what kept him so busy and so disciplined was the fear of what might flood in should he leave his mind momentarily empty.