Both of these historical episodes ended in chaos.

Not all long term dictatorships, however, end in disintegration and mayhem.

Get the journalists first, deal with the chaos later.

With Syria engulfed by chaos, the world does not know what to think.

The end result was De la Rua's forced resignation and today's economic chaos.

Ten years and 20 billion dollars of official debt later, indeed, Russia's economy remains a shambles.

The consequences of this combination of uncoordinated responses would be widespread, scary, and bordering on chaos.

A new regional order is not yet discernible, which points to a future fraught with risk and possible chaos.

Despite its simplicity, the system achieves an impressive diversity of behavior, fluctuating between apparent randomness and order.

But Deng, scarred from decades of Maoism, particularly the chaos unleashed by the Cultural Revolution, had limited tolerance for political instability.

As leader of a French force of 4,000 men from Honfleur, he aimed at taking advantage of the chaos in England.

He talked about how the mandalas of ancient Hindu religion were kind of projected into the sky as an attempt to regain some sense of order after the chaos of war.

In fact, a post American world is taking shape before our eyes, characterized not by a new international order, but by political ambiguity, instability, and even chaos.

Japanese businessmen may be a little puzzled by the creative chaos of India the argumentative culture can seem alien to them.

This decline in confidence is fundamentally related to the chaos in the financial markets that started in 2007 and accelerated this September.

BENGHAZI Middle Eastern autocrats routinely warn their people of rivers of blood, Western occupation, poverty, chaos, and Al Qaeda if their regimes are toppled.

As other countries in the region grapple with chaos, wars, and authoritarianism, Tunisia is often described as the success story of the so called Arab Spring.

These risks most apparent in today s chaos ridden Middle East raise troubling questions about the security of nuclear assets in volatile countries everywhere.

Many observers predicted that Indonesia, the world s most populous Muslim country, would be unable to sustain democracy and would ultimately decline into chaos.

At home, the legacy of Saudi family rule, fear of chaos, increased public spending, and abundant security forces have produced calm.

As they see it, the immediate choices in the Arab world are not between dictatorship and democracy, but between malevolent stability and apocalyptic mayhem.

Allies insisted she will push ahead with trying to strike a deal with Brussels despite the backlash and force Eurosceptics and Labour to choose between her package and 'chaos'.

These threats are often related to economic chaos and basic failures in national governance, and international military action will often be needed to meet them head on.

At the same time, Syria and Iran might exploit the inevitable chaos to expand their presence in Iraq, and all parties, including Turkey, would oppose a central role for the Kurds.

Whether Tunisia becomes a democratic, economic, and social success story or, instead, sees its revolution end in chaos, civil war, and a new authoritarian regime will have consequences far beyond the country s borders.

Already the scenes of looters exploiting the chaos in the early aftermath of the storm have been replaced with stories of charitable contributions from other parts of the country, of children being accepted into schools outside the city, and of families being helped by strangers.

If the difference between order and chaos or preservation and ruin were the same as that between high mountains and deep valleys, or between white clay and black lacquer, then wisdom would have had no place stupidity would also have been alright.