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  • According to the Obesity Society, inequities for the overweight in "employment settings, health care facilities and educational institutions" were due to "widespread negative stereotypes that overweight and obese people are lazy, unmotivated, lacking in selfdiscipline, less competent, noncompliant and sloppy."

    'How To Never Look Fat Again' 2010

  • You do not need to be told what favourable terms in monetary and exchange rate policies will result from this basic act of selfdiscipline.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • You do not need to be told what favourable terms in monetary and exchange rate policies will result from this basic act of selfdiscipline.

    ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN CHAMBER OF BUSINESS BANQUET 1994

  • He moved abruptly, flexing his fingers, a gesture unfamiliar to her and which, being unfamiliar, should have released her from her bondage to her unwanted memories; but instead it eroded her selfdiscipline, and anguish and desolation rose up in side her.

    A Cure For Love Jordan, Penny 1991

  • You have shown them that warmth, graciousness, humour and kindliness can mesh with selfdiscipline, courage, selflessness and devotion to duty.

    Dinner in Honour of The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario The Honourable Pauline McGibbon 1980

  • He is part of the regulatory team and is as much subject to selfdiscipline as are those directly in the securities business. awrence Report

    The Role of Self-Regulation in the Securities Business 1967

  • Furthermore, a proper sense of ethics and duty, and an ability for selfdiscipline inspire a respect for positive laws, and conversely, when these personal qualities are lacking a disregard for laws is engendered.

    Educating A Democracy 1943

  • I suppose the Nazis keep it, he thought, and the Communists who have a severe enough selfdiscipline.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • I suppose the Nazis keep it, he thought, and the Communists who have a severe enough selfdiscipline.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • And how she said if she'd had selfdiscipline when she was a girl, her life would have been very different.

    Mary Marie 1920

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