These examples illustrate how power is exercised in the final, chaotic hours before Congress adjourns.
It acquired some of the best amateur video taken during the first chaotic hours after the attacks.
BEIJING — In the chaotic hours after Lhasa erupted March 14, Tibetans rampaged through the city's old quarter, waving steel scabbards and burning or looting Chinese shops.
FOR a few chaotic hours last weekend, Ecuador was gripped by the kind of tragi-comic political drama that was commonplace in Latin America a generation ago, but that many hoped lay in the past.
Among the many things that occurred during the last chaotic hours Sunday, besides golfers from around the world being humbled by a deceptively punitive golf course, was a sudden surge by a host of veteran players.
Her choice of sentence structure, the almost staccato voice, and the starkness of style and language reflect the circumstances so well that the reader cannot help being pulled into the discordant rhythms of those chaotic hours.
Much of Ms. Marín's old barrio is gone, reduced to smoky rubble in the chaotic hours from midnight to dawn when invading American troops stormed through El Chorrillo in search of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega on Dec. 20, 1989.
The party did well where it always does, in its south-western heartland, but made little progress elsewhere.Worst of all, in the chaotic hours during which politicians and commentators alike were struggling to discern any real pattern in the results, were troubling stories of electoral irregularities across the country.
"While it's impossible to meet every need in the first chaotic hours and days of a disaster, we are proud that we were able to provide millions of people with hot meals, shelter, relief supplies and financial support during the 2012 hurricanes".
