discipline
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The Dublin-listed airline’s investments in Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft, in-house engine maintenance capabilities and strict cost discipline should help preserve its cost advantage over the long term, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
‘History shows that long-term investors are generally rewarded for maintaining discipline through periods of uncertainty, rather than trying to time headlines.’
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Against Uruguay, he knew that Spain had historically lost matches when dragged into provocation and chaos, so he insisted on calmness, discipline, and emotional control.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Jackson, 27, could still face discipline from the NFL if the league determines that he violated its personal conduct policy for the second time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Bateson knew that he needed a name for the discipline that was being born around him.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The MoD said the roles would cover disciplines from data and modelling to project management.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The difficulty, then, is not to choose between supposedly solid disciplines and supposedly fragile ones.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
In “Rheology,” Shayok Misha Chowdhury, an experimental theater artist, and his mother, Bulbul Chakraborty, a theoretical physicist, bridge the language of their different disciplines to explore a subject dear to both of them: loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Now cloning is becoming more popular in other disciplines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Countless amateur thinkers took a crack at the problem, as did anthropologists and archaeologists when those disciplines were invented.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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While other teams have relied on moments of individual brilliance, Spain have quietly impressed through their disciplined, well-structured system.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
We have already seen this disciplined, patient strategy put into practice.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
And Constellation’s Fink suggested Wednesday that the company would take a disciplined approach to selling more nonalcoholic drinks as it figures out patterns in demand and consumption.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
Under coach Sergej Barbarez, a former professional poker player, the gritty Bosnians rarely gamble, instead playing a disciplined and physical style that emphasizes compactness and swift counterattacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Very organized and disciplined, far more than Dutchy was.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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The IMF, the one body charged with disciplining imbalances, has no means to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Rate hikes aimed at disciplining speculation can do more than cool the room.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
“By arresting Villarreal, rather than solely disciplining the employee for any wrongdoing, county officials took this ‘everyday journalism’ and transformed it ‘into a crime,’ ” she wrote.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2026
"While dominant individuals may show disciplining actions toward their subordinates, as macaques do naturally, these actions in the macaque society 'differ from human abuses'," it said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Lucinda, whose voice is hoarse with disciplining the rowdy crew, hands Yolanda the knife.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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