The Council was interested in the external discipline for both clergy and laity connected with all these sacred rites.

The main duty of the prefects is to raise, and subsequently maintain, the standards of both internal and external discipline.

That didn't make them bad men, exactly, but it was fortunate for the kingdom that they'd been smart enough to find duties where external discipline controlled their aggressiveness.

The French say the external discipline of the fixed-rate system helped them squeeze down inflation to 2.8 percent from 13 percent in 1981.

It has made the United States largely exempt from external discipline.

The Cluniac reformers promoted the ideal of the pilgrimage, for example, as an external discipline which would help these new Europeans to cultivate an inner attitude.

Within the academic theory of the present time, approaches may either begin with literature, or with disciplines external to it.

In the private sector, the imperative need to be profitable acts as an external discipline on the activities of enterprises.

The Christian, like the unbeliever, has to contend against the enemy within that holds power over his will; hence he, too, needs the help of external discipline.

It seems clear that Mike Tyson needs the kind of external discipline that had been provided by his previous trainers and managers.