bring to order

Other times they resemble a desk drawer crammed full of old computer cables: a tangled and unruly mess which takes hours to bring to order.

Mr Djotodia has said he cannot do anything to bring to order fighters who did not join the army when he took power.

The Indians of it came to have such a reputation for devotion, for frequenting the holy sacraments, for obedience to their ministers, and for peace and brotherly love among themselves—being free from the vanities and excesses to which these Indians are naturally inclined—that when the ecclesiastical judges desired to bring to order any persons in other regions, they used to send them to Bataan, because of the good example set there.

There was a world of eloquence in the look with which she met his eyes; innocent, unpractised, unconscious as it was, it raised a tumult in the noble soldier's breast which it cost many a day's hard struggle afterwards to bring to order.

Chad Colby clinked a wineglass with a fork one recent Saturday night to bring to order his chattering audience — 22 of us, crowded around a long table in a sprawling open kitchen in a storefront on Melrose Avenue.