Julie has also tried to find a pilot on her own, and in the moments it takes to find her, Los Angeles descends into violent chaos.

Speaking sanguinely in Jerusalem today, he addressed a rising concern that a unilateral troop withdrawal could produce violent chaos in the border region or even provoke a war.

Only this time it was against the backdrop of bigger, more violent chaos.

Although many Arabs were impressed by the zeal with which Iraqis turned out to vote on Jan. 30, Iraq remains a synonym for frightening, violent chaos.

But as the administration has learned in Iraq, the imagery of violent chaos, repeated over and over, can undercut even the most frequently cited statistics.

Americans do well to recall how hard it was for the U.S. to extricate itself from the violent chaos of Lebanon, where it was much less intimately involved.

The series ends as the violent chaos of no man's land fades into a tranquil field of poppies, with only birdsong to be heard.

Ethnic loyalties have turned out to be stronger than national ones, plunging this country, once an oasis of political calm, into the kind of violent chaos typified by Liberia.

Here the German Parliament convened in 1919, fleeing the violent chaos of Berlin, to write the constitution for the ill-fated democratic government that became known as the Weimar Republic.

His literary agent, Aaron Priest, said that his memoirs would deal with "the violent chaos of our times," a period the author refers to as "the age of the terrorist."