To prevent chaos and gradually get people to respect the law, it is necessary first to establish a sense of order and authority, they continue.

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Indeed, he reckons his latest challenge is to prevent the chaos of the Caucasus and Chechnya spreading south and east and into the Muslim lands of former Soviet Central Asia.

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Cherry-picking desirable law introduces the very kind of legal chaos our Constitution was designed to prevent.

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She and Musharraf also argue that joining forces will strengthen Pakistan's efforts to combat extremism and prevent the kind of political chaos that could prompt another burst of martial law.

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The country was tugged back from the brink of utter chaos two years ago, when 800 British paratroopers landed in Freetown to prevent the RUF from over-running the city and toppling Mr Kabbah's government.

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The Americans also need to construct a regional plan, with foes as well as allies, that will prevent the chaos of Iraq from spilling into Jordan or Saudi Arabia, or pulling in Turkey or Iran.

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Noting that the Latin American Left is far from monolithic, the paper urges the Bush administration to work with the hemisphere's democratic governments, even anti-American ones like that of Brazil - which has displayed growing unease about the violence and chaos around its perimeter that Venezuela has been fomenting - in order to contain the subversion and prevent the further planned violence emanating from Caracas.

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