Lawlessness in the region has also allowed sectarian groups and criminal gangs to operate.
Lawlessness in the streets has prevented medical supplies reaching hospitals, and many have been looted and closed.
Bloomberg Markets magazine published a lengthy article on Koch Industries and its culture of secrecy and lawlessness.
Already, increased lawlessness on the streets has made it more difficult for companies to provide services to certain communities.
Over the next couple of hours, my friends narrated incident after incident about the extent of lawlessness in Karachi.
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Mr Neeson said he was concerned about the "growing lawlessness" in the area.
Riots, revolutions and lawlessness have also interrupted the health care that Haitians receive.
But Somalia's lawlessness is visible in the booming charcoal trade, which is annihilating what's left of the country's trees.
Somalia has been without an effective government since 1991, fuelling the lawlessness which has allowed the pirates to thrive.
Liberals, for their part, are expressing astonishment that such lawlessness should continue now that Iran is on the path to reform.
In truth, they haven't even been convinced that crime is falling and still talk about social breakdown being to blame for lawlessness.
She also warned that lawlessness sends a negative message round the world.
Both Ms Mutuma and Audrey think that the attack was symptomatic of the lawlessness and violence in post-election Kenya at the time.
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Now Quebeckers are hoping that the operations and several since mark a new era where the lawlessness of recent years is controlled.
They have seen worse war and lawlessness than this, and they have seen earlier predictions of catastrophe confounded by the Afghans' resilience.
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More peacekeepers should have been readied to move in behind the fighters, to quell the lawlessness that ought to have been anticipated.
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"All that is being offered to our community by such actions is fear and lawlessness, and we refuse to accept this, " they said.
Eris has a moon, and this too now has an official name: Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness.
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The goal for U.S. and Iraqi forces is to spread out to other trouble spots without letting places like Adhamyah slide back into lawlessness.
Mr Putin runs the risk that more and more of the north Caucasus may slip into lawlessness and out of Moscow's sphere of influence.
Lawlessness in neighboring Somalia recently spilled over the border while kidnappings of tourists in the area prompted several countries to put out travel warnings.
As much as humanitarianism, it is this vision of lawlessness and chaos and their potential to destabilize the global economy that has fueled worldwide concern.
It's what Saddam called his 2003 war with the U.S., but it was soon applied to the looting and lawlessness that erupted after Baghdad fell.
As Mr Livingstone likes to observe, a city that once exemplified lawlessness has cut robbery and murder rates by almost three-quarters since the early 1990s.
But Estonians worry about lawlessness, even banditry, spilling over the border.
In the past, the police have seemed to ignore taxi-drivers' lawlessness.
Wahid's administration is already struggling to quell resurgent separatist movements in the resource-rich provinces of Papua and Aceh and to combat a general drift toward lawlessness.
New York's triumph over the lawlessness that was wasting lives and leading it to economic ruin is the greatest urban policy success of the last quarter-century.
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In the chaos after Mr. Suharto's resignation, Islamists formed new political parties that became increasingly popular amid the lawlessness and corruption that pervaded the country then.
Late last week, Latino Fox News reported that chaos had erupted in a Mexico City suburb after reports of gun battles and lawlessness on Twitter.
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