To some observers, South Africa have looked in increasing turmoil this past month.
Now, on the first anniversary of the uprising against the regime and with Libya in increasing turmoil, the certainties of last summer look less compelling.
Mr Bamford was ousted amid increasing turmoil in the Vodafone boardroom as a power struggle is played out between Mr Sarin and the chairman, Lord MacLaurin.
The departures added up to a picture of what the officials called increasing turmoil growing out of Mr. Gibson's abrupt personnel decisions.
China Youth Daily noted in an editorial on Sunday that "the increasing turmoil in Egypt is causing a 'headache' for the decision makers in Washington".
(The two men's devotion to bridge is highlighted by the fact that they both attended the North American bridge championship in Nashville in late July, at a time of increasing turmoil in the credit markets).
The violence on Friday raised concerns of increased turmoil in the Palestinian areas, where the radical Islamic group Hamas took charge of the Palestinian Authority government just two days earlier.
On October 30, amid increasing turmoil and warnings of possible genocide, the Security Council approved a special 250-person military force to the Central African Republic to protect UN workers there.
Representative Rick A. Lazio offered a broad indictment of the Clinton administration's foreign policy today, asserting that weakness and indecision by the White House over the last eight years had undermined the nation's credibility and contributed to increased turmoil in China, Russia and, most of all, the Middle East.
Keats's continued use of opium is, Roe claimed, "apparent from his up and down moods, and the increasing turmoil of his relationship with Fanny Brawne in 1820, a phase of his life that resembles Coleridge's opiated anguish over his unrequited passion for Wordsworth's sister-in-law, Sara Hutchinson, in the years 1802 to 1804".
