What is "disciplined"

Usage examples of "disciplined".

It took weeks of constantly pummeling these cut-off units before they would surrender, and in every case there was little sign of heavy casualties from the air strikes, demonstrating once again that committed and disciplined troops can withstand even sustained air campaigns if they are properly dug in.

The well-kept, beaten earth roadway was massed with disciplined streams of travellers to and from Yedo that one day would be called Tokyo.

At once his men unslung their carbines, levelled them at the samurai, then on an abrupt second order, fired a disciplined volley into the air.

At once all oars were shipped, the bowman leaped onto the wharf and tied the boat to a bollard, marines followed rapidly in disciplined order and formed up defensively, guns ready, their Sergeant studying the terrain.

But none of them had seen the carnage that a few stalwart, disciplined British soldiers could cause with their fast and easy-to-fire breech-loaders.

Tyrer had rushed over to the samurai who was equally alarmed by the sudden appearance of the disciplined soldiers, bowed and called out loudly in Japanese, "Please, Sir Officer, all men to stay here safe, Please to salute my Master, Lord of Gai-jin.

Samurai guard houses and Customs House, north and south, outside the fence and over small bridges, smoke from various chimneys, men walking the promenade, horsemen exercising their ponies on the racetrack, Drunk Town its usual mess with little of their fire and earthquake damage cleaned up, contrasting with the disciplined tent lines of the encampment on the bluff where soldiers were drilling, the odd bugle call wafting seawards.

This delighted him and enhanced what Misamoto had said earlier, that Ing'erish were hated by nearly every other nation on earth because they had the biggest Empire, they were the strongest and wealthiest nation, with the greatest, most modern fleets, the most powerful, disciplined and best-equipped armies, as well as enjoying their gains by producing more than half of the world's goods.

And down at the South Gate, disciplined samurai streamed in, racing for the Yoshiwara with ladders and fire buckets, wet smoke masks over their faces.

Indeed, even today, reporters in Afghanistan have noted the awe in which the other Afghan fighters hold the disciplined, zealous Taliban fighters.

In 1991, the Iraqi infantry divisions, which had the poorest morale and discipline, broke under six weeks of air strikes, while the more determined and disciplined Republican Guard and regular army heavy divisions did not.

Likewise, in Afghanistan, the Taliban's allies and foreign volunteers broke under four weeks of bombing, but the more determined and disciplined core Taliban and al-Qa'eda units did not--and at Konduz, Qandahar, and Tora Bora, they fought hard, just as the Iraqi Republican Guard did.

Instead, in all three of the major wars the United States has fought since 1990--the Gulf War, Kosovo, and Afghanistan--the pattern has been the same: sustained air strikes and the degradation of the enemy's logistical system broke poorly disciplined and committed troops but not the better-disciplined and committed (and better-supplied) troops.

In Kosovo, the entire Serbian army was disciplined and committed, and NATO forces were unable to choke off their supply lines (despite the large number of PGMs employed).

In Afghanistan, the Taliban's poorly disciplined and motivated allies broke after about four weeks of bombing, while its hard core of Talibs and its fanatical al-Qa'eda allies did not.