But players and coaches say the game is still largely an exercise in chaos.
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This is the sole consolation to be had, that in chaos there is opportunity.
If unemployment alone was a major driver of revolt, then Djibouti should be in chaos now.
Any attempt otherwise will only result in chaos: Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are good examples.
Several of the explosions targeted railway lines linking Soweto to Johannesburg, leaving busy commuter routes in chaos.
The south African country's inflation has been in chaos since December 2004 when it soared to 622.8%.
Because if we don't, the health care system of this country will be in chaos in 10 years.
His party looks in chaos from the outside, so goodness knows what is going on behind closed doors.
The state Republican Party, moreover, has been in chaos, producing no clear challenger.
Stock markets throughout the world are in chaos and investors are genuinely concerned.
It's two minutes to airtime, and Studio B at ZDTV is in chaos.
The lawyers say the court could be in chaos because of their action.
Port Said, which has had a difficult relationship with Cairo over the past six decades, erupted in chaos.
Ford management, if you care to call it that, has been in chaos.
With the city in chaos and its citizens possessed, Wei Shen now faces a challenge far more sinister than any before.
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The plans have also met some opposition from parents' groups and charities - and Labour has said the plans are now "in chaos".
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The entire spectacle showed a party in chaos, and it had a big role in assuring the election of Richard Nixon in November.
In a report, on Tuesday, the Chinese government admitted that parts of its economy were "in chaos", with rampant corruption, counterfeiting, fraud and embezzlement.
"They are probably going to be dealing with families that are in chaos and families that are in fairly deep poverty, " he said.
And it is exacerbated by the return of millions of war refugees and by decades of upheaval that have left land tenure in chaos.
Kenya was engulfed in chaos after its last election in 2007, when post-election violence left more than 1, 000 people dead and hundreds of thousands displaced.
Arriving to a standing ovation Mr Hague put into words the feelings of much of the audience when he said "the countryside is in chaos".
But its campaign is in chaos and the government's ratings are plunging.
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One year after the earthquake that killed an estimated 300, 000 people and transformed Port-au-Prince and several communities into ruins, Haiti continues to be buried in chaos.
He has won grudging acceptance from the outside world and many Cambodians by arguing that without his tight rule the place would collapse in chaos again.
Part of that process is figuring out the "balance between control in chaos, " as it is in any middle school, said Salen, from the Institute of Play.
In this climate of conspiracy, it is hardly surprising that the Sunday Herald newspaper ran a story in Scotland last month headlined 'Lockerbie report leaves trial in chaos'.
President NICOLAS SARKOZY (France): (Through Translator) When financial institutions have lost all credibility, markets are in chaos and panic reigns, people look to public institutions for a solution.
The right is organized and the left is in chaos.
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