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anarchy
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In international relations theory , anarchy is the idea that the world lacks any supreme authority or sovereign . In an anarchic state, there is no hierarchically superior, coercive power that can resolve disputes, enforce law, or order the system of international ...
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Anarchy \An"arch*y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch .] Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. --Cowper. Hence, confusion ...
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Anarchy or anarchistic theory is the only ideology that is in the least bit optimistic.
But when the military order had levelled, in wild anarchy, the power of the prince, the laws of the senate, and even the discipline of the camp, the barbarians of the North and of the East, who had long hovered on the frontier, boldly attacked the provinces of a declining monarchy.
Fritigern, who already felt the inconveniences of anarchy, were easily persuaded to acknowledge for their king a Gothic Judge, whose birth they respected, and whose abilities they had frequently experienced.
But their conquest of Gaul was followed by ten centuries of anarchy and ignorance.
A new method of secret ballot abolished the influence of fear and shame, of honor and interest, and the abuse of freedom accelerated the progress of anarchy and despotism.
A tumultuous anarchy of five days was appeased by the inauguration of Ali: his refusal would have provoked a general massacre.
Hungarians promoted the reign of anarchy, by forcing the stoutest barons to discipline their vassals and fortify their castles.
The successors of Basil amused themselves with the belief, that the conquest of Lombardy had been achieved, and was still preserved by the justice of their laws, the virtues of their ministers, and the gratitude of a people whom they had rescued from anarchy and oppression.
It is a more easy task to provoke the metaphysical disputes of the Greeks, to drive into the cloister the victims of anarchy or despotism, to sanctify the patience of slaves and cowards, or to assume the merit of the humanity and benevolence of modern Christians.
His personal misfortunes will prove the anarchy of the government and the ferociousness of the times.
Hungarians, who replunged the western countries of Europe into their former state of anarchy and barbarism.
Trade had expired under the pressure of anarchy and distress, and the numbers of inhabitants had decreased with the opulence of the city.
Timour might boast, that, at his accession to the throne, Asia was the prey of anarchy and rapine, whilst under his prosperous monarchy a child, fearless and unhurt, might carry a purse of gold from the East to the West.
Avignon was persuaded, that the successful rebel could alone appease and reform the anarchy of the metropolis.
Cola di Rienzi that plunged Rome into anarchy, the plague came as the peak of successive calamities.