"Despite a vigorous attorney discipline process in New Jersey, the total number of sanctions handed out was 237, which is about one-third of a percent of the number of lawyers," Mr. Erison said.
Ecology, the study of the interactions of organisms with their environments, has evolved from descriptive studies—"natural history"—into a vigorous biological discipline with a strong mathematical component, both in the development of theoretical models and in the collection and analysis of quantitative data.
And then he took us to the movies: Pauline Kael once made gentle fun of Agee's favorite value-added words, from "bare and plain and true and honest" to "tender," "disciplined," "vigorous," "masculine" and "healthy".
It is the most vigorous effort yet by Republicans to try to impose discipline on the party, particularly in House and Senate primary races.
But Mandela reappeared not as the weak old man many had expected but spry and vigorous from his long years of physical and intellectual discipline.
Government lawyers had warned at a recent hearing that a "particularly vigorous" ban on smoking in state prisons could cause discipline problems and risk the safety of staff and inmates.
A stickler for detail and discipline, Mr. Obama has directed his senior White House staff to take charge of a vigorous effort to correct the problem, and to provide him detailed updates every evening.
Bahāʾ al-Dīn sought Saladin's favour by urging him to the vigorous prosecution of this war and presented him with his treatise on the laws and discipline of holy war (jihad).
Hans Aarsleff remarks that Locke 'is the most influential philosopher of modern times.' He notes that besides initiating the vigorous tradition known as British empiricism, Locke's influence reached far beyond the limits of the traditional discipline of philosophy.
