It was anarchy.

Somalia had disintegrated into anarchy.

The result can be anarchy.

The first thing to remember is that play is not anarchy.

(a) War is the polar opposite of peace and involves a complete rupture of relations, and a return to anarchy.

Those who are infidels aid one another. Unless you do the same there will be discord in the land and anarchy.

When confronted with anarchy, this eagerness to secure stability by whatever means necessary is understandable. But it is a slippery slope.

Those who are infidels aid one another. Unless you do the same there will be discord in the land and anarchy.

In my statement to the Council on the November report, I spoke about the risk of sliding back into lawlessness and anarchy.

The most urgent challenge facing the new government is rampant lawlessness and anarchy throughout Palestinian society. Murder, kidnapping, and extortion have reached record heights.

We have seen all too clearly in the past that countries under stress or recovering from conflict have slid back into anarchy and failure.

And then God looked to the future and realized that, in fact, if the world were just filled with compassion, there would be anarchy and chaos.

Liberia had endured anarchy and violence for over 15 years as a result of a civil war that had claimed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent civilians.

Also supporting it is the fact that we today see eruptions of violence in zones of anarchy, in failed states, collapsed empires, frontier regions, mafias, street gangs and so on.

Intolerance of political dissent and divergent opinion is widespread, which gives rise to protracted internal civil disorders and social conflicts, which in turn are a recipe for anarchy and instability.

And it's a very horrible thing to see anarchy, to know that the police and the military there were lots of military troops there actually can't stop that rampaging mob who's coming down the street.

Over the decades, the movement has developed a political culture of indiscipline. Arafat presided over a sort of anarchy, encouraging rivalries, undermining other potential leaders, and ensuring that all authority (and money) ran through his hands.

The Pakistani media revisited a famous comment by Mohammad Iqbal, the poet philosopher who devised the idea of an independent Muslim state in Pakistan. The religion of the mullah, he said, is anarchy in the name of Allah.

Nevertheless, the doomsday scenarios predicting anarchy and chaos in the post Saleh era are most likely exaggerated. Unlike in Egypt, the vacuum resulting from Saleh s departure can be quickly filled, so the country need not fall back on a military oligarchy.

Civilians were again displaced from their villages, in some cases for the second or third time. Moreover, the looming threat of complete lawlessness and anarchy draws nearer, particularly in western Darfur, as warlords, bandits and militia groups grow more aggressive.

Is this good or bad for the world? In the NIC s view, a collapse or sudden retreat of US power would most likely result in an extended period of global anarchy, with no stable international system and no leading power to replace the US.

Political legitimacy was validated by fear of anarchy, the terrifying reality of which had been observable across the Channel within living memory. Arbitrary, draconian repression was the rule under the Bloody Code of criminal justice, more than 100 felonies were punishable by death or transportation.

Although Somalia had suffered widespread violence, anarchy and lawlessness for 14 years, the progress towards reconciliation, the establishment of a Transitional Federal Government and the election of 275 members of parliament had renewed hopes for a return to peace, security, law and order and development.

We believe that the best response to those forces that oppose progress in the Palestinian Israeli settlement process is a responsible and restrained position by the parties and coordinated steps in the area of security that are designed to prevent anarchy and uncontrolled violence.

Whatever the achievements of Israel s superior army and its anti missile systems, and however appalling the devastation of Gaza, Hamas will survive, if only because Israel wants it to. The alternative jihadist anarchy that would turn Gaza into a Palestinian Somalia is simply too unbearable to contemplate.

The good news is that Israel can defend itself with relatively low casualties, its economy is improving, and tourism is recovering. As Palestinian extremism and anarchy become clearer, Israel s stance may gain greater international sympathy, strengthening prospects for better relations with the Arab world and the West.

The fallacies that really challenge the modern reader, however, are those that characterize arguments that today are widely accepted even in the most educated and enlightened circles. One of these, Bentham says, in a jarring juxtaposition, may be termed Anarchy preacher s fallacy or The Rights of Man fallacy.

Moreover, all motorists must respect the rules of the road, and anyone who breaches them must be held to account, and possibly penalized, because even one rogue driver will most likely cause a major pile up if not stopped. So it is with economic governance anarchy would be devastating.

Yeltsin s tragedy, and Russia s, was that, when the country needed a leader with vision and determination, it found an agile political operator instead. By not permitting Russia to disintegrate into anarchy or leading it back to authoritarianism, Yeltsin kept the way open for such a leader to one day emerge.

Today, most Israelis believe that this step, though justified on strategic grounds in the face of constant attacks by the Lebanese group Hizbollah, convinced Palestinians that violence worked. In the same manner, a withdrawal from Gaza, many people worry, will bring increased anarchy there and a rise in overall terrorist attacks.

The Transitional Federal Government is committed to the strengthening and consolidation of the transitional institutions as pillars of democratic governance without, at the same time, condoning the use of domestic differences of opinion to undermine the achievements of a two year long reconciliation process and perpetuate anarchy and chaos again.

English and Bough begin their odyssey of farcical high jinks disguised as waiters, they set fire to a flash French restaurant they create mayhem smuggling themselves aboard Volta's luxury yacht and English triggers pure anarchy as he attempts to use a Virtual Reality headset to familiarise himself with the interior of Volta's house.

With skilled fighters and plenty of money and arms, the ISIS and the Nusra Front thrive amid persistent war and anarchy. Meanwhile, the Assad regime benefits from the fact that parts of the country that it no longer controls cannot be called liberated zones, given the prevailing chaos and extremism in these areas.

May 1 (Labor Day), and November 7 (the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution) remain much more meaningful than newly installed postcommunist holidays, such as June 12 (Independence Day). In fact, for many Russians, the declaration of Russia s independence in 1990 represents a low point in the country s history, a year of anarchy and disarray.

The problem, as human rights advocates should have learned long ago, is that the US security establishment s regime change model does not work. What appears to be a quick fix to protect local populations and US interests often devolves into chaos, anarchy, civil war, and burgeoning humanitarian crises, as has happened in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria.

Facing economic stagnation and what Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei calls the anarchy of weapons, a succession struggle is the last thing Palestinians need. Any new leader must spur the economy, enforce the rule of law, fight corruption, unify the PA s security agencies, and preserve public safety and he must do so quickly or lose authority.

Confronted with the world s increasing complexity and America s decreasing appetite for international responsibilities, the need for adequate rules and for a referee to enforce them is greater than ever. In the face of growing risks of global anarchy, the courageous but risky activism of France and Britain should not be seen as a substitute for an engaged US.

An opinion held in the past, taking as a point of departure the notion that war, being an expression of complete anarchy in relations between States, is not susceptible to legal qualification of any kind, concludes from this that all treaties to which the belligerents are parties must be abrogated without exception and regardless of the number of parties.

Despite his insistence on rubbing shoulders with world leaders and portraying himself as a modernizer, Putin, like his predecessors, is in fact a ruler who believes that only authoritarian rule can protect his country from anarchy and disintegration. But the old ideas, the mimicry and symbols Putin employs to achieve his goals, no longer correspond to today s realities or Russia s present capabilities.

The result is a trap in which poverty causes bad governance and bad governance causes poverty a two way spiral downward that can lead to such extreme deprivation that the government, lacking computers, telephones, information systems, and trained civil servants, couldn t function honestly even if it wanted to. The end result can be collapse into a kind of anarchy, as in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia.

While roughly 500 people per month were killed from March to August 2011, some 100,000 civilians around 3,200 per month died between September 2011 and April 2015, with the total number of dead, including combatants, reaching perhaps 310,000, or 10,000 per month. And, with the Islamic State and other brutal extremist groups capitalizing on the anarchy created by the civil war, the prospect of peace is more distant than ever.

There is also widespread acknowledgement that the US must do more both at home and diplomatically to address global climate change that the US must work with its European allies to prevent Afghanistan from slipping back into anarchy and that the US must take the strongest possible stand against terrorism and those who would support it in any way. No major candidate is advocating anything remotely resembling isolationism.

The third liberal route to peace institutionalizing international relations aims to regularize the behavior of states through a system of norms and rules, thereby creating order (and peace) out of quasi anarchy. Such thinking motivated US President Woodrow Wilson s desire to establish the League of Nations after World War I, and it also underlay President Franklin Roosevelt s push to create the United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions after World War II.

The famous ones despotism is a good one anarchy is a way to not deploy the power in any organized way, to do it in a radically diffused fashion and democracy is a set of technologies, which have the effect of, in principle, diffusing the power source to a large number of people and then re concentrating it in a smaller group of people who govern, and who themselves are, in principle, authorized to govern by virtue of what the broader public has done.