But the soldiers were utterly confused, and largely leaderless.

The mutineers in the armed forces got no support from the national leaders and was largely leaderless.

But the Civilian Crusade, the ad hoc group directing the largely leaderless protest, urged Panamanians to continue nonviolent demonstrations.

Earlier strikes had been largely leaderless and disorganized mass uprisings of workers.

Yet it is a mistake to equate these formal bodies with the widespread and largely leaderless, self-organizing movement that has emerged in Venezuela.

The largely leaderless rebellion that broke out several weeks ago in southern Albania has now spread north to the outskirts of Tirana, the capital.

I was counting on the enemy being confused and largely leaderless, since I surmised that the bulk of the leadership had been cut down in the assault force.

Ashwathama took over after his death, but the Kauravas were largely leaderless and broke ranks fleeing from the slaughter.

Roderic is believed to have been killed, and a crushing defeat would have left the Visigoths largely leaderless and disorganized.

They believed that their movement, because it was largely leaderless and decentralized, like the Web itself, would be more durable, harder to crush, than earlier democratic movements.