The strike has also been marked by clashes between rebellious police officers and federal security forces sent by the authorities in Brasília, the national capital, to reassert order on Salvador's streets.
The argument that I'm going to make, drawing upon again Rabb — he's not the only one that's made this argument, but he's made it more thoroughly than most people — absolutism may be seen as an attempt to reassert public order and coercive state authority after this period of utter turmoil.
That's the way it's supposed to be, but the entropy of September somehow had seeped east to Montauk, and it wasn't until this day that the natural order reasserted itself.
The old order reasserted itself with England's crushing series win in 2011.
The moral order is reasserted.
The natural order eventually reasserted itself, the World Cup runners-up finding their range around the hour-mark and then mustering a late riposte just as the home support revelled in unlikely parity.
As episodic television, there is a big reset button at the beginning of nearly every episode, where the old emotional order is reasserted.
In the streets the celebrations are often marked by ribald language and behaviour, but at its conclusion, when everyone bathes, dons clean white clothes, and visits friends, teachers, and relatives, the ordered patterns of society are reasserted and renewed.
But as the general election nears, there are signs of the old order reasserting itself.
Self-interested white voters had staged, in both views, a putsch to reassert the old order over a multicultural community struggling to be born, represented in this construct by the surviving opposition candidate, Michael Woo, cast here as an ethnic liberal.
