Blood or kinship ties, he asserts, enabled leaders of Italian gangs or families to form more insulated, deadly, disciplined and effective organizations than their rivals.

Quickly, however, the Buddhists put a "cohesive and disciplined [political] organization" into action.

He reorganized the service into a disciplined organization based on his experience in the Union Army as a surgeon.

"The Cardinals are a disciplined organization, and I don't think anything goes on there that shouldn't."

Football legend Walter Camp called the 1922 team "a well disciplined organization that fought as a unit."

It is thought by many to be the most disciplined political organization in the city, one that almost always avoids the untidiness of primaries.

"Hamas is a very coherent and disciplined organization," Mr. Sada said.

"Clearly, the basics of a disciplined organization are missing."

They had been trained by a large, disciplined organization.

They had a difficult time to build a disciplined organization that could mount an effective opposition against the New Democratic Party provincial government.