Sentence examples for firm discipline from inspiring English sources

"It is absolutely true Ray believes in firm discipline and has strong faith," Norris told the Guardian.

He has a reputation for incorruptibility and firm discipline (during his time as military ruler, civil servants who arrived late for work were forced to do squat-jumps).

These two remarkable men provide firm discipline; caring and down-to-earth role models; and a belief in the intrinsic worth of these children and the value of teaching them.

With lenders still exerting firm discipline on developers, there is little danger of overbuilding and even slowed growth is still growth, which means more jobs and a need for space to put people.

On one occasion, Duveen found it necessary to subject Frick to the same kind of benevolent but firm discipline to which he later subjected Mellon; that is, to teach him that no great picture was to be obtained except through Duveen.

The question, said former White House economist Jared Bernstein, is what Democrats would be willing to give Republicans in return for prying them away from the influence of anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, who has maintained firm discipline among GOP lawmakers.

There is a new captain, a new bunch of officers and firmer discipline.

Follow the German model, the message seems to be, and all will be well.Others might well usefully emulate German firms' discipline, focus and nurturing of talent, as well as Germany's labour-market reforms and its sound finances.

And if banks are to be subject to the firmer discipline of fair-value accounting, it makes sense to have extra padding.These changes would certainly come at a cost which is one reason to weigh them more carefully than the framers of Sarbanes-Oxley did.

Equally importantly, markets impose their own discipline on companies whose managers release false financial reports and, in turn, firms discipline the managers who are responsible for false misleading reporting, perhaps because of the presence of, or potential for, private enforcement actions.

He has also been firm on discipline, omitting Danny Care from his Six Nations squad after the scrum-half was arrested – and subsequently convicted – for drink driving.