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By Christmas, what's left of society has descended into chaos.
The two sides descended into civil war in the 1990s.
Brazil descended into one of its worst recessions in 2015.
She descended into drugs and alcohol, and began cutting herself.
Johnson's health faded as he descended into alcoholism and poverty.
In recent weeks, Nicaragua has descended into violence and chaos.
South Sudan descended into a conflict lasting over two years.
The report says the call descended into shouting and profanity.
Family WhatsApp chat groups have descended into political shouting matches.
Libya has descended into chaos since its longtime ruler, Col.
From the sunny lobby, the students descended into the galleries.
The rally outside parliament descended into violent clashes with police.
Shortly thereafter the show descended into chaotic agitation, then ended.
The Times said the call descended into shouting and profanity.
America descended into a bitter and convulsive political civil war.
I left the upper deck and descended into the cabin.
This weekend, a new M. Night Shyamalan movie descended into theaters.
Egypt descended into political paralysis, compounded by a worsening economic crisis.
Or was My Immortal an earnest project that descended into trolling?
The rally quickly descended into violence and was dispersed by police.
"She keeps me sane," Shelby said as she descended into laughter.
As Sinaloa descended into civil war, the state's murder rate surged.
Tur said that as a man, he had descended into depression.
When Democrats refused to budge, Republicans descended into infighting like clockwork.
Some became alcoholics, had disappointing careers or descended into mental illness.
They descended into a dry gulch; Rose said This is right.
The economy descended into recession over the last half of 2018.
Tensions were rising shortly before the event descended into violent chaos.
"The market for medical supplies has descended into chaos," they write.
Class had descended into chaos, but that was O.K. with McQuilkan.
"I have descended into the belly of the beast," he bellowed.
Ultimately, Facebook and Twitter descended into chaos by their own doing.
"I have descended into the belly of the beast," Higgins said.
"I have descended into the belly of the beast," Higgins continued.
I can honestly say that our world descended into complete darkness.
These people have descended into hell, and we're right there with them.
Now, a putative deal with Foxconn of Taiwan has descended into farce.
"Oh, that's cereal," he said confidently, as it descended into the machine.
The records are a lie and this tournament has descended into farce.
The DNC started with a bang but quickly descended into a whimper.
A movement that began peacefully six months ago has descended into chaos.
Thus, in many cases, the coverage of Harvey descended into the bizarre.
Meetings descended into finger pointing and ended with a sense of inevitability.
When we find the characters again this season, they have descended into
Pominville descended into the crease and tucked a shot between Lehner's legs.
During the summer of 1922, the two sides descended into civil war.
Our first ventures into joint watching quickly descended into relationship choppy waters.
And has the resistance to Trump really descended into a "childlike fascism"?
A white supremacist rally in the town descended into violence on Saturday.
Libya descended into chaos following the 2011 uprising that toppled ruler Moammar Gadhafi.
After holding peaceful elections on July 30th Zimbabwe has again descended into violence.
Burundi descended into violence in 2015 when Nkurunziza sought a disputed third term.
Libya descended into chaos after the 2011 uprising that toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
The event raised issues of wealth distribution, but descended into chaos and brawling.
South Sudan descended into civil war after Kiir dismissed Machar as his deputy.
The sound emanated from a long burgundy tube that descended into the water.
Below, see how this weekend's most recent Hong Kong developments descended into violence.
Parliament has overwritten that veto, but the debate has descended into partisan squabbling.
As a result, things on my normally tranquil block nearly descended into chaos.
Shortly after our visit, Iraq descended into violence; suicide bombings became the norm.
We descended into a clearing, and there, looming before us, was Vaduz Castle.
During the miners' strikes of the early 1980s, she descended into the mines.
Collins moaned; "I have descended into the belly of the beast," wailed Rep.
But Oracle appealed the copyright ruling, and the feud descended into legal purgatory.
Through the winter months, the group descended into starvation, madness and, infamously, cannibalism.
Imagine that a modern high-rise has descended into brutality the way Laing's did.
The Senate descended into a series of complaints about declining decorum on both sides.
Libya has descended into chaos following a 2011 uprising that toppled a longtime ruler.
A caravan of parents descended into the camp to take the lucky kids away.
The country descended into crisis in 20103 when Nkurunziza pursued a disputed third term.
In the years after the Soviet collapse, Russian society descended into chaos and poverty.
Mary descended into a legacy of bloodshed and humiliation — and not without good reason.
Libya descended into chaos following the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Both of the two previous debates quickly descended into low-brow and shallow affairs.
We have these little scenic rovers that have climbed mountains and descended into craters.
Finally on Monday, their formally sunny relationship descended into a full-on Twitter feud.
First came Kevin's calamity, as he descended into a vortex of alcohol and pills.
It wasn't to be; the debate descended into an undignified brawl between angry men.
Here's what we know about a routine traffic stop that quickly descended into violence.
Beginning there, Chandler descended into a rabbit hole of history, philosophy, spirituality, and politics.
South Sudan descended into civil war after Kiir first dismissed Machar as his deputy.
Hong Kong's protester "laser show" descended into a dance party on the harbourfront tonight.
When the North Vietnamese attacked a few days later, the city descended into panic.
What began as a moment of hope rapidly descended into a Palestinian civil war.
Wong's disqualification followed another weekend of protests that descended into chaotic clashes with police.
Local police were quickly overwhelmed on Monday evening and the city center descended into chaos.
"This descended into someone asking me to shove puzzle pieces up my ass," she wrote.
Libya has since descended into chaos, with rival armed groups trying to establish their authority.
Soon after independence in 1948, the country then known as Burma descended into ethnic conflict.
Instead, the opposite has occurred: The party has descended into a highly contentious leadership battle.
The forum then descended into a flame war over whose magick could beat up who.
As the American economy collapsed, so did trade flows, and the world descended into disaster.
The protests reportedly started out peacefully, but descended into violence as the day wore on.
The score remained unchanged at the final whistle, before the season finale descended into mayhem.
Even as the country descended into economic and political turmoil, she didn't think of leaving.
But like so many rap beefs these days, the feud quickly descended into casual misogyny.
Laura Cox Kaplan sat right behind him as the hearing descended into rage and recrimination.
On March 14th student demonstrators descended into Freetown and marched on the seat of government.
Furthermore, they'd deduce, from the groove, that I'd descended into the crater after a stone.
I asked Will why the Republican Party had descended into a hateful form of populism.
The final tolling bell of his theme music sounded before the stadium descended into darkness.
Before he descended into Birtherism, Trump once mingled with hordes of New York-based celebrities.
As Russia descended into an inferno, infernal energies were released, shaped by the great writers.
Then Qaddafi was killed, Libya descended into chaos, and its shores became impossible to police.
As the country descended into sectarian conflict, Shiite communities looked to Iran as a protector.
Both times, on losing, Vancouver descended into manic violence with stores looted and cars burned.
Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria have returned to dictatorship, descended into chaos, or both.
I headed out of the cave and down a path that descended into a ravine.
When it all unraveled and the Nets descended into an unwatchable state, I hung in.
Their greedy attitude has created for May-ling what has gradually descended into a marital nightmare.
With that, Hammon descended into the rabbit hole of serial killer obsession, and still hasn't left.
Irwin confirmed that visiting astronauts would notice the stench as they descended into the planet's atmosphere.
"Instead of working together to protect Americans, Washington has descended into another partisan fight," Buchanan said.
The former, unlike the latter, failed; China descended into civil war and then a communist dictatorship.
In recent months battles over free speech on campuses have descended into violence across the nation.
They left the house shortly before Ashley woke up, and Jared immediately descended into panic mode.
App and web coding has descended into something pretty close to plumbing, in places, of late.
As a result, the island's economy descended into the largest municipal debt crisis in U.S. history.
Grant Heyward descended into addiction after Nicholas's death and spent years in and out of rehab.
We stood, still and quiet, outside the teacher's cabin, as the 47s descended into a valley.
Content warning: Attacker bit off local politician's ear at Hong Kong protests that descended into chaos
On February 11, 2016, a debate in South Africa's Parliament, in Cape Town, descended into chaos.
Since the election on March 2, public debate has descended into a cycle of historical grievances.
Here's what you need to know: • Catalonia's disputed referendum on independence from Spain descended into violence.
"Craig Carton, you have indeed descended into a hell of your own making," the judge said.
The subway is still far from reliable nearly two years after the system descended into crisis.
The authority's reputation has taken a beating as the subway descended into crisis two years ago.
As Afghanistan descended into chaos, Mr. Aslami said, his class of 120 students dwindled to 15.
Libya descended into chaos after the 2011 uprising that toppled and killed the longtime dictator Col.
But inside Israel, he is credited with having maintained stability as Arab neighbors descended into chaos.
Monday night's Iowa caucuses descended into a chaos when results were delayed by a glitchy app.
Within days, news outlets from around the world descended into their one-room workshop in Ukraine.
As Petrograd descended into chaos, government thugs ransacked the office that produced the Bolshevik newspaper, Pravda.
Born a member of the slaveholding planter class, Thomas swiftly descended into poverty after the war.
This meant the invaders were in charge in Baghdad as the country descended into civil war.
The two agencies have a fraught history that at times has descended into open bureaucratic warfare.
After that, Coko from Tracks descended into the drug trade and spent a decade in prison.
The Black Hawk descended into the compound but abruptly lost "lift" and started to descend very quickly.
Clinton's campaign hit back, and Twitter users descended into a fevered discussion of what exactly constitutes progressivism.
The caucuses descended into a debacle late Monday night as results were delayed past midnight Eastern Time.
She tried to commit suicide by drinking poison as she descended into paranoia, anti-Semitism, and madness.
Since its referendum success UKIP has not just lost its main purpose but also descended into farce.
Somehow, the argument literally descended into a discussion of frame rates and video-to-GIF conversion methods.
Following the equaliser, City's day rapidly descended into something befitting the 'list of natural disasters' Wiki page.
And what she saw in between was a lesson learned in how Rikers descended into absolute chaos.
Libya descended into chaos following a popular 2011 uprising that toppled and killed longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi.
I don't think anyone can deny that the world has descended into full Cold War II chaos.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 but descended into a civil war two years later.
Trump's businesses descended into multiple bankruptcies before he recovered his financial footing and became a media star.
South Sudan seceded from Sudan in 2011, but descended into a brutal civil war two years later.
Scattered vigils on Friday night descended into chaos as some protesters vandalized metro stations and blocked streets.
The album was a breakout hit, but YG's life descended into chaos the following year, in 2015.
We eventually climbed back into the forest and descended into Schaan, Liechtenstein's largest city with 93,300 people.
Others waited for hours in a taxi line that descended into "pandemonium," as one passenger told CNN.
The Iowa caucus results still remain outstanding because the caucus process descended into chaos two weeks ago.
Yet almost from the moment that drive cleared the left field fence, the organization descended into chaos.
Since then the city of 11 million has descended into a surreal quiet — except around the hospitals.
On October 2nd peaceful demonstrations against the shooting descended into violence, with protesters vandalising shops and stations.
I descended into a basement to find it stuffed with a diverse array of her fellow travelers.
The deeper he descended into the underworld, the more he understood the petty rivalries among the leadership.
He descended into the crowd on "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)" and emerged missing a shoe.
In 2015, the United States closed its embassy in Yemen as the country descended into civil war.
With Chapo now appearing destined for extradition to the US, the cartel has descended into a leadership crisis.
One of the world's poorest countries, Somalia descended into civil war after dictator Siad Barre's ouster in 1991.
As Venezuela has descended into political and economic turmoil, Unasur members have been divided on how to respond.
South Sudan descended into civil war after President Salva Kiir fired Riek Machar as vice president in 2013.
The happy group descended into the cavernous station, passing walls covered with Sarah Sze's Blueprint for a Landscape.
A high school descended into utter chaos after students were told a fake active shooter drill was real.
Parliament has descended into guerrilla warfare, as backbenchers attempt to wrestle the initiative from the executive (see article).
South Sudan, which descended into conflict in December 2013, is at present experiencing a shortage of hard currency.
Last week, cold Arctic air (dark blue) descended into the Plains states and reached Colorado, Kansas and Missouri.
On December 7, the polar vortex had descended into the Plains states and reached Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri.
Nevertheless, the miners were occasionally able to see the funny side of proceedings when they descended into farce.
Miss American Dream had descended into being a Louisiana swamp creature, smacking her gums as she lip-synched.
In the days after Sterling's death, the city descended into unrest, with mass demonstrations and over 100 arrests.
In the United States, the culture wars have often descended into harassment, vilification, and targeting of particular artists.
Players that descended into Loot Lake's vault found themselves inside an enormous, largely empty room ringed by pillars.
Yemen descended into war after pro-democracy unrest forced late former president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.
When I accidentally ate something that had gone rotten, I descended into total and utter panic for days.
The two companies descended into a long-running war of words about the quality of each other's management.
But in the second set, the match descended into chaos, all instigated by the slightest of hand gestures.
Yemen, Libya and Syria descended into civil wars with the Arab Spring, and those wars continue to blaze.
That appearance descended into a shouting match with the famous host over who was the worse government lackey.
One passenger said that the cabin descended into "chaos" as the plane made its terrifying plunge toward Earth.
The health law debate continues on Capitol Hill, where the discourse over the "skinny repeal" descended into disarray.
The forum descended into chaos, according to people who attended it and the Lo-Down, a local blog.
But Lewis descended into depression, and the relationship fractured under the weight of his physical and emotional pain.
Somalia One of the world's poorest countries, Somalia descended into civil war after dictator Siad Barre's ouster in 1991.
But as Syria descended into civil war, Idlib was overcome by the worst the brutal conflict had to offer.
Syria's membership of the Arab League has been suspended it descended into violence in 2011 after Arab Spring protests.
Charlotte protests A second night of protests over the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott descended into madness.
He didn't take an interest in the art until his country descended into war-torn chaos in the 90s.
The contests of the 21861th century routinely descended into cesspools of public deviance, racism, and religious and personal slander.
As the kingdom descended into civil war between the Catholics and Huguenots, Catherine tried to steer a middle ground.
Ushahidi, a crisis tracking startup based in Nairobi, launched in 2008 after Kenya's disputed presidential elections descended into violence.
The one exception to this rule is Danika, who bravely descended into the depths of gross-out psycho-horror.
While the other characters' lives have descended into death or poverty, Gloria has overcome the tragedies of her childhood.
Mali descended into turmoil when Islamist fighters and Tuareg-led rebels in 2012 seized control of the country's north.
But when Lebanon descended into civil war in the 1970s, the two communities found themselves pitted against each other.
The committee was repeatedly interrupted by cries of "regular order" as the hearing descended into low comedy and farce.
But the discussion quickly descended into chaos once Trump brought up the elephant in the room: the border wall.
But he quickly grew irritated and the debate frequently descended into the two candidates accusing each other of lying.
After a 13-year mission, the spacecraft Cassini descended into Saturn's atmosphere and immediately disintegrated, all according to plan.
The event, which was billed as a campaign event for local elections, quickly descended into chaos around the city.
But others, according to local sources and Syrians' angry posts on social media, had descended into criminality and dysfunction.
All my responsibilities slipped away from me as I descended into the past, continuing to drink the Pimp Juice.
Crews descended into the San Bernardino National Forest on Wednesday trying to put down the fast-growing Cranston Fire.
But he's found a substitute of sorts with daily White House coronavirus briefings that have quickly descended into farce.
" Decades later, he told "The Jinx" that the couple's relationship had descended into "half arguments, fighting, slapping, pushing, wrestling.
Only a few minutes later, the chopper descended into the frigid and fast-moving waters of the East River.
However, initial hope for a positive outcome was dashed when talks quickly descended into name-calling on Day One.
Did the police fail to act as the country descended into its worst spasm of religious violence in years?
During Maduro's tenure as president, the once-wealthy oil nation has descended into economic collapse and a humanitarian crisis.
From there, he descended into a mile-long tunnel, equipped with a motorcycle on rails, and raced to freedom.
The Jesuits descended into the jungles with the twin goals of converting indigenous tribes and sheltering them from enslavement.
But the most effective attempt was before Libya descended into chaos with the collapse of its government in 2011.
More than 85033 years ago, France descended into a period known as "la terreur," or the reign of terror.
The official Saudi line is that Khashoggi died accidentally after a confrontation in the consulate descended into a brawl.
With Chen as my guide, I descended into the dank, malodorous underworld to review the subterranean life that once existed.
Before the Dutch arrived at the island on Easter Sunday in 1722, the population had descended into cannibalism and barbarity.
A peaceful rally on July 14 descended into clashes with the police at a shopping mall in northern Hong Kong.
After comedian Marie Dressler descended into poverty for some years, Marion helped her chart her way back into motion pictures.
The memorial descended into chaos, with multiple fights breaking out among kitchen staff, which security staff believed were gang-related.
Department stores and luxury boutiques shuttered their outlets when protests descended into riots in early December, and tourists canceled bookings.
Days later, while coverage by the entertainment world descended into chaos, Khloé gave birth to True, her baby with Thompson.
The scene at the courthouse—and Ms Yingluck's absence from it—epitomised the shambles that Thai politics has descended into.
After two decades of socialist rule that descended into ever-greater repression and economic mismanagement, they may just be right.
But I do not accept that our country has descended into the hatred-swirled slop pile that he lives in.
The French military and colonial government, too, rapidly descended into what longtime French President François Mitterrand termed the cercle infernale.
The night descended into this weird, sex-fueled ritual dedicated to Santa Muerte, who is basically the narco death God.
On Monday the Iowa Democratic caucuses descended into chaos following the botched rollout of an app meant to communicate votes.
As global financial markets have descended into turmoil, there are mounting worries about the resilience of the global economy, too.
Lacking substantive or strategic consensus, the party has descended into infighting and may emerge with nothing to show for it.
Immediately thereafter, this new nation descended into warfare and chaos due to tribal insurgencies of complex origins and scarce facts.
A harnessed sniper descended into the cave and, when the pig charged out of the dankness, he put it down.
On this day, Mr. Murray descended into the Powhatan No. 6 mine for what would probably be his last visit.
Whatever happens, it can't be as confusing as North Dakota last Saturday, where the Republican caucus apparently descended into chaos.
An initial stand-off between protesters and the government in April over planned welfare cuts quickly descended into deadly clashes.
The bill has sparked months of large-scale protests that have at times descended into violence between demonstrators and police.
Iraq was still fragile and its communities still unreconciled, so it quickly descended into sectarian chaos once US troops left.
Somalia One of the world's poorest countries, Somalia descended into civil war after dictator Mohammed Siad Barre's ouster in 1991.
My husband Daniel and I descended into a chaotic hell-blur life of desperately trying to make her not miserable.
But there was there no clear winner or knockout blow during a debate that at times descended into a cacophony.
Marsha Blackburn, whose campaign hinged on her opposition to abortion rights and descended into racist fear-mongering, won in Tennessee.
Mr. Hernandez joined Nine Trey in 2017, but left less than a year later as the group descended into infighting.
Gordon and De Sousa presumably exchanged words before a shoving match on the baseline descended into a full-blown melee.
As they descended into the flatlands, Wafa and his friends say they saw human body parts scattered on the ground.
At times, it has seemed crippled by factionalism, as board meetings descended into name-calling and bickering over parliamentary rules.
Above, its chairman, Troy Price, tried to explain how the first statewide test of the 29 primary descended into chaos.
The comments came after another weekend of mass protest marches that descended into violent clashes between riot police and protesters.
No, the male kangaroo wasn't whispering sweet nothings into her floppy ear, as she descended into the soft kangaroo afterlife.
As Chile descended into chaos, Argentina was enacting strict capital controls to avoid further international reserve losses over political fears.
As I was flying back to Bangkok this month, my heart sank as the plane descended into an ocher haze.
The university refused repeated offers of aid from the city police, until after the event had descended into a melee.
Lorand felt as if she had descended into a deep hole filled with strangers — police officers, medical workers, coroner staff.
Around this same time as this was happening, Syria erupted in Arab Spring protests and, eventually, descended into civil war.
But then the Europeans stood by as Libya descended into a civil war that left it shattered and ruled by militias.
According to PlayFutbol, a verbal altercation between fans and players after the match descended into a scuffle by the petrol pumps.
Nouri al-Maliki, a Shia Muslim, became Iraq's US-backed prime minister in 22013 as the country descended into civil war.
As he discussed each measure, it slowly descended into Oracle's side of the scale, tipping justice ever further in Oracle's favor.
The Shiite-majority Iraq has been trying to maintain a fine line as allies Tehran and Washington descended into verbal vitriol.
Cherry and Wessner resigned last August and October, respectively, as the company descended into eventual turmoil at the end of 2017.
When it was finally time for the official meeting, poor Dean descended into a panic outside of his father's front door.
Security remains the paramount challenge in Libya which descended into chaos following the 2011 overthrow of the veteran ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
Melrose has been pursuing GKN since January, when the fight between the two companies quickly descended into a war of words.
Iraq has descended into civil war, mainly between Shi'ites and Sunnis, since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
In late October, Dawn descended into its final orbit around the dwarf planet, just a mere 240 miles from the surface.
We're supposed to believe that while the United States has descended into gendered dystopia, it is also, somehow, a racial utopia?
What was supposed to be a civilized home job tattoo session descended into chaos as beers were drunk and numbers dialed.
But he did, and by doing so, he has descended into the muck of uncivil partisanship that he himself was deriding.
Libya descended into chaos following the NATO-backed uprising in 2011, with myriad armed groups and two administrations vying for control.
The event, which descended into a riot, had a bleak undertone; the rejection of black, gay, and latino art and values.
He is a reminder that before Leonardo DiCaprio descended into cargo shorts and That Vape Life™ he embodied youthful promise.
As you might have guessed, one day the father did not return, so his family slowly starved and descended into madness.
Many US officials and analysts believe that Iraq descended into sectarian strife because the US withdrew too early in December 2011.
South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, fired his deputy, Riek Machar, a Nuer.
It is worth noting that Syria has descended into nightmare not in the aftermath of American intervention, but in its absence.
These are but the latest examples of a public square plagued by language that has descended into the realm of contempt.
LONDON — A decade after the world descended into a devastating economic crisis, a key marker of revival has finally been achieved.
The Democratic Party, meanwhile, descended into an increasingly familiar muddle of conflicting messages about how they will oppose the Trump administration.
But for the larger community, each succeeding year descended into darker, grimmer depths, as young people kept wasting away and dying.
A decade later, all their energies went into battling for the survival of their single currency as it descended into crisis.
In the 1960s, France nearly descended into civil war in part over whether Algerians could fully join the white, secular democracy.
The decision comes more than a week since the Iowa caucuses, marred by faulty technology and arcane rules, descended into chaos.
Last week on The Bachelor, Peter Weber descended into a crisis over whether he could trust himself or anyone around him.
Monday night's Iowa caucuses descended into chaos after the results were indefinitely delayed by problems likely caused by a glitchy app.
The subject matter is painful: how 500 middle-aged policemen, mostly from Hamburg, descended into massacring Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Before the driver was shot, Ahmed, Ali and their detachment had descended into the same side of the city on foot.
In New York, the price of a MetroCard swipe keeps rising, even as the subways and buses have descended into crisis.
What was then a celebration of progress with respect to ethnic diversity amongst the ranks of politicians has descended into controversy.
The man's parachute descended into the area just north of the pier, where a D.J. played pop music for the event.
Peaceful rallies descended into chaos on Sunday with running skirmishes between protesters and police in shopping malls and on the streets.
As I descended into the subway, I thought how great it would be to instead sail down a car-free Broadway.
The argument over the tuk tuk descended into violence and dozens of rioters rampaged through the streets that evening, the source said.
The pair descended into the chasm of enemy territory surprisingly optimistic, an apparent side effect of successfully saving the planet twice before.
"This race has slowly but surely descended into Dante's Inferno," John Hammond III, a Republican National Committee member, told the Associated Press.
By all reports, it was a raucous event that descended into uncontrolled anger on both sides and even death threats from Sen.
In the mid-1970s, as Lebanon descended into sectarian chaos, it became a magnet for Iranian dissidents who trained in guerrilla warfare.
Lack of electricity was one complaint by protesters in demonstrations that descended into violence in Iraq's oil hub of Basra last year.
The UK Independence party descended into farce on Tuesday after its leader Diane James resigned after just 18 days in the role.
Case in point: When Robby and JoJo made out by the fountain outside and everyone saw them and descended into panic mode.
In 1977, New York's power system failed for over 24 hours and the city descended into a night of terror and looting.
His past notable entrances include the launch of his presidential campaign, when he descended into the lobby of Trump Tower by escalator.
Clinton pushed for the bombing of Libya, and publicly laughed about the lynching of Muammar Gaddafi as Libya descended into bloody chaos.
Before goth descended into full steampunk ahead insanity, it involved a fair share of cool, cool Bowie worship and wearing sunglasses indoors.
But the presidential race has descended into a series of off-color jokes, threats, name-calling and allegations about hidden bank accounts.
After raising $232 million by selling a token without a network in place, the project descended into chaos over a management dispute.
Ortiz walked off the field to another standing ovation, briefly touching the brim of his helmet as he descended into the dugout.
McCain criticized the complete American pullout of Iraq in 2011, a position tragically vindicated when the country descended into ISIS-generated chaos.
What began 2018 as an already messy divorce has descended into bitter cross-channel vitriol that will only get worse next year.
Steven Law, a longtime lieutenant of the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, said the party had descended into chaos.
Between 5,000 and 13,000 people were executed at Sednaya in the four years since a popular uprising descended into war, it said.
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the game's world governing body, opened disciplinary proceedings after the game descended into chaos on Monday night.
The speed with which the two governments descended into verbal mud-wrestling and new tariffs and counter-tariffs surprised even seasoned analysts.
Once hailed as an architecturally forward model for utopian living, within a few years of opening, the projects had descended into squalor.
It is a quiet end to a conflict that began with vibrant clarity, if not strategic vision, and descended into bloody ambiguity.
The rally outside parliament on June 20 descended into violent clashes with police, who used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters.
The subway, however, has been a concern for Mr. Cuomo: As the system descended into crisis last summer, his approval ratings dropped.
Venezuelan exiles, whose country descended into poverty under Havana-backed dictator Nicolás Maduro, have increasingly found common cause with anti-communist Cubans.
Hong Kong protests descended into violence on Tuesday after police shot a protester and fired tear gas as demonstrators threw gas bombs.
That's where the Unsworth came in: He organized a team of divers who descended into the cave and pulled the boys out.
Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, now in their fourth month, have often descended into violence late in the day and at night.
A lack of electricity was one complaint by protesters in demonstrations that descended into violence in Iraq's oil hub of Basra last year.
" In some cases, he said, this roundup descended into "physical violations and other forms of abuse, apparently in order to elicit forced confessions.
HONG KONG'S Legislative Council, or Legco, has descended into chaos over how members should take their oaths of office after elections in September.
Amy Winehouse's mom has revealed how she watched her adoring daughter turn into a "stranger" as she descended into drink and drug addiction.
Farmland was covered, streets descended into impassable pools of water, shopping centers were inundated with only roofs of cars peeking above the water.
Following the incident, she descended into a deep depressive episode, during which she regularly missed classes, drank heavily, and began having panic attacks.
That surprise quickly turned to dismay, as the project descended into rancor, litigation, and even the odd rumor of an international assassination plot.
The first night, all the careful orchestration descended into an ugly floor fight, followed in the evening by Melania's plagiarism of Michelle Obama.
Under Duarte's rule, Veracruz descended into a chaotic cycle of violence, with mass graves having been discovered last year after he left office.
Barely two years later, that hope was shattered, as South Sudan descended into one of the most horrific civil conflicts of our time.
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong descended into chaos Sunday after a man attacked a local politician, biting off part of his ear.
I was basically the assistant chef for those two dishes, which I prepared before the evening began and we all descended into hell.
Malaysia Malaysia has descended into political chaos after the country's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad resigned yesterday and his party exited the ruling coalition.
By the next century — through the Great Depression and the German bombardment of World War II — Liverpool had descended into seemingly terminal decline.
In 1975, Lebanon's fractured ethnic and religious groups descended into what would become a 15-year civil war for control of the country.
Elsewhere in the region the promise of the Arab uprisings often descended into counterrevolution and violence, but Tunisia retains the promise of democracy.
So the aeroplane ascended or descended into an electric city where nothing was what it seemed at first and I was absolutely confused.
There, Buck and half a dozen other high-level Disney creatives descended into caves, trekked across glaciers, and skirted the edges of volcanoes.
Senate negotiations to fund the government descended into chaos on Tuesday, underscoring the fight awaiting lawmakers as they try to prevent a shutdown.
As the sun set on Sunday, the airport descended into darkness, and at least three airlines canceled their remaining flights headed to Atlanta.
The world's most important Marxist states have all descended into authoritarianism, whereas the world's freest and most egalitarian countries are all liberal democracies.
As he descended into the hole carved for the future Pont Cardinet station, it became clear how the costs could be so different.
My heart pounded because it was only the beginning of our journey and we had already descended into a Steven Spielberg extraterrestrial movie.
The horse was in good favor until this Napoléon also tumbled from the throne, and le Vizir descended into storage at the Louvre.
Thousands of university students staged an initially peaceful protest that descended into acts of vandalism, including the destruction of the three-story court building.
That's exactly what happened when Grande dropped a teaser for her soon-to-be-released single "7 Rings" — the internet descended into unbridled excitement.
Instead, the anti-Semitic rallies, which descended into violence, and Mr Trump's tepid early comments were met with silence by the government in Jerusalem.
The country descended into chaos when a mainly Muslim Seleka rebel alliance ousted then-president Francois Bozize in 2013, sparking reprisals from Christian militias.
In early 2014, as the country descended into civil war, he set out to seize Benghazi, the country's eastern city, and crush Islamist militias.
And on October 24, a woman came forward to describe a consensual sexual encounter that descended into violence that included choking, gagging, and crying.
But that professional peak soon descended into months of fending off accusations about the company he worked for while on the campaign: Cambridge Analytica.
But until Trump fully descended into incoherent babbling in the final half-hour, the third debate felt like three people cosplaying a presidential debate.
The problem is, the rest of the country has basically descended into being a second-world country instead of a first-world country. Yeah.
Sectarian clashes descended into a pogrom against Rohingyas in Rakhine state in 2012 that claimed some 200 lives, the vast majority of them Muslims.
The Mexican city of Culiacán descended into chaos on Thursday, after security forces briefly captured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's son Ovidio Guzman.
Central African Republic descended into chaos in early 2013 when mainly Muslim Seleka fighters seized power, triggering reprisal attacks by Christian anti-balaka militias.
South Sudan descended into war after President Salva Kiir fired his deputy, unleashing a conflict that has spawned armed factions often along ethnic lines.
It seemed to me the zenith of a carnival of absurdity, as the candidates descended into what appeared to be a penis measuring contest.
As the 70s descended into self-indulgent chaos, Allman fell into the typical rockstar extracurriculars: drugs, booze, sex, album covers that looked like this.
Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, withdrew his support on Saturday for Donald J. Trump as the Republican Party descended into chaos.
It was before Turkey descended into a financial crisis delivered in no small measure by his authoritarian proclivities and unorthodox stewardship of the economy.
The historical home of the Ringling Brothers circus has become a political circus itself, as once-genteel Wisconsin politics has descended into acrimonious partisanship.
Which means that the situation in Hong Kong — which has descended into violence after months of protests — could conceivably get a whole lot worse.
In Wineapple's telling, it quickly descended into near-constant disputes over process and authority: Who gets to rule what will and won't be admissible?
After crossing an abandoned bridge over the San Miguel River, I descended into a narrow slot canyon filled, to my surprise, with grazing cows.
He married again, in 1946 — his new wife, Vikki, was a teenager — but that marriage, too, descended into turmoil amid LaMotta's drinking and womanizing.
But two years after his death, the city descended into all-out war, pitting Islamist militias against a coalition of military and local fighters.
What started out as a peaceful rally descended into brief clashes and chaos at the train station where last week's attack had taken place.
Divergences on policies from Europe to tax and migration were clear during the weeks of talks that descended into acrimony last year before collapsing.
Before it descended into frustration, the meeting had been billed as part of Mr. Zuckerberg's apology tour for Facebook's mishandling of its users' data.
As the sun rose, they descended into the vast volcanic caldera, which emits billowing clouds of sulfur from hundreds of cracks in the earth.
Zimbabwe was once one of Africa's most promising economies but descended into corruption, mismanagement and diplomatic isolation in the latter stages of Mugabe's administration.
South Sudan, which won independence from Sudan in 2011, descended into civil war in 2013 months after President Salva Kiir fired his deputy Machar.
I scanned the rock formations with my binoculars and then scrambled over some boulders and descended into a wash that was once a river.
Finland, which had declared its independence in December 19173, descended into a civil war along the same lines as Russia's: socialists versus non-socialists.
A feud between two of Dublin's major criminal families has descended into deadly violence, with both sides taking to the city's streets to settle scores.
Westworld reminds him of Battlestar Galactica and Lost, two shows that also began with promising science fictional premises but ultimately descended into mysticism and absurdity.
General Hayden, by then head of the CIA, reports that sessions between the agency and the House Security and Intelligence Committee descended into shouting matches.
The eyes of the nation — and the world — turned to Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday after a "Unite the Right" white supremacist rally descended into chaos.
After all, you've just come back from a (hopefully) relaxed state of mind, only to be descended into the chaos of your day-to-day.
Both men have been involved in the struggle for power in Libya, which descended into chaos after former dictator Moammar Gadhafi was toppled in 2011.
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong descended into violent chaos over the weekend as authorities and protestors clashed and broke nearly two weeks of peace.
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong descended into violent chaos over the weekend as authorities and protesters clashed and broke nearly two weeks of peace.
A German football match descended into chaos on Sunday after a player ran full speed into the opposition manager, sending him flying to the ground.
But the automaker axed the brand as it descended into bankruptcy in 2009 and watched truck sales flag in the face of high fuel prices.
The neighbourhood was once home to the city's famous Kai Tak Airport where airplanes descended into a dense forest of buildings armed with neon signs.
Acting with Mississippi governor Ross Barnett's implicit support, the protestors injured federal servicemen, killed a journalist, and descended into a riot that lasted fifteen hours.
She went toe-to-toe with Nicki Minaj on national television as their gloriously ill-fated season of American Idol descended into a celebrity deathmatch.
The country has descended into a bloody civil war and has become yet another front in the broader sectarian war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
But what started as a jubilant night out for young music fans in Shanghai descended into violence when security workers pulled people from their seats.
The debate over why, how and who watches whom has at times descended into a self-serving back-and-forth between the police and protesters.
Day after day, subway riders in New York City have voiced a steady drumbeat of grievances as the century-old system has descended into disarray.
The Iowa Democratic Caucus descended into chaos on Monday when the reported malfunction of a new app meant to streamline the process led to problems.
As peaceful demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad descended into an armed civil war in 2011 and 2012, various factions vied for control of Syria.
In 2013, George Kourounis descended into the flames to search for microscopic life — becoming the only person ever to reach the bottom of the crater.
On Soccer A club once praised for its methods on and off the field has recently descended into a drifting, crisis-riddled, backstabbing soap opera.
After Trump's administration began and immediately descended into chaos, I had one last flare of institutionalism, one last moment of outrage and 25th Amendment fantasy.
Protests in Hong Kong descended into violence on Tuesday as police shot a protester and fired tear gas as black-clad demonstrators threw gas bombs.
That descended into a much bigger confrontation, as Democratic Party members attempted to get into the committee rooms and to free Chae from his office.
Instead, the night descended into chaos with caucus leaders waiting hours to deliver results by phone and texting and even tweeting pictures of their tallies.
And like the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russian departure from Chechnya left a devastated land that quickly descended into lawless strife among rival factions.
The United States and China have descended into such an adversarial state that they are likely to continue seeking alternatives to exchanging goods and investment.
VICE News sat down with Macron to discuss the fund and his relationship with Bolsonaro, which at one point descended into insults about Macron's wife.
By the end of the day, the military had largely sided with the regime, and a protest planned as peaceful had descended into violent skirmishes.
Most recently, he was set to speak alongside Richard Spencer at a Michigan State University event that descended into a clash between racists and protestors.
But though the PRI's early leaders had been generals, Mexico never descended into military dictatorship, as Brazil, Argentina, Chile and other Latin American countries did.
Syria eventually descended into a full-blown civil war that has claimed the lives of some 400,000 people and displaced more than 5 million as refugees.
After Buchanan's loss then, and turn to the Reform Party in 2000, the paleocon movement descended into irrelevance — and, worse, more open bigotry than ever before.
Officials attributed the disorder to warring gangs, but the turmoil has underscored the broader troubles plaguing an understaffed prison system as it has descended into chaos.
Faraday Future, the much-hyped electric carmaker that lately has descended into turmoil, just lost two of its top executives, two sources confirmed to The Verge.
The plane descended into a yellow-brown smear that stretched clear across the valley, thick enough at the centre to blur away streets and buildings entirely.
"The debate on Brexit in the Tory (Conservative) leadership contest has descended into the disturbing, the ludicrous and the reckless," said Labour's Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer.
Luxury boutiques closed their doors on several successive Saturdays after the protests descended into riots in early December, and many visitors to France canceled hotel bookings.
It descended into a civil war which has killed more than 250,000, drawn in global military powers and helped Islamic State establish its self-declared caliphate.
Luxury boutiques closed their doors on several successive Saturdays after the protests descended into riots in early December, and many visitors to France cancelled hotel bookings.
Two years prior to the start of the show's action, 88 of the town's men descended into the mine for work, and didn't come out alive.
As the Turkish invasion in northern Syria proceeds, the region appears to have descended into violent chaos, with videos emerging of Turkish proxies slaughtering US allies.
The protest descended into violence in the early hours of Monday as several hundred protesters clashed with a similar number of police outside the city's parliament.
DJ Esco and Future's Project E.T. The Escoterrestrial tape dropped a full six months ago now, back before we all descended into true fear and chaos.
Although these recent images were shocking, what they captured has been going on for years, ever since Libya descended into chaos after the fall of Col.
The boy's father, who has descended into Champagne-soaked decadence, suddenly becomes the most doting of parents and hopes Joona can find his missing daughter too.
As the Limiting Factor descended into the Puerto Rico Trench, the gold-rimmed depth gauge slowly rotated before Vescovo's eyes: 299.933,22015 metres, 220,21 metres, 2100,20040 metres.
But before it could be installed, Napoleon III lost the Franco-Prussian War, his government fell, and Paris descended into the brutal anarchy of the Commune.
The right hypes its base up with bullshit — it has for decades — until an already tribally inclined audience has now descended into near-total epistemic closure.
Every set of eyes was turned to the television, a late-night broadcast where the English presenters were drunk and swore and everything descended into anarchy.
After her brother and sister-in-law descended into their drug-addled existence, Ms. Rausing took the couple's four children in 2007 following a court hearing.
The referendum descended into chaos and violence after Madrid sent police forces from other regions to try to block a vote that had been declared unconstitutional.
Some members descended into the water in bathing suits and pointy witch hats, breaststroking around like black crows that had taken a turn for the aquatic.
Peaceful rallies descended into chaos in the Chinese-ruled city on Sunday with running skirmishes between protesters and police in shopping malls and on the streets.
She watched from afar as her beloved Syria descended into intractable civil war that ripped apart family back home and razed the places she held dear.
At the end of "BlacKkKlansman," Lee included footage of the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that descended into violence when protesters clashed with counterprotesters.
European and American companies descended into the jungles, forcing indigenous populations into slavery to tap the rubber while building huge palaces on the lands left behind.
But hundreds of thousands remained as the Korean Peninsula was divided into two nations and, a few years later, as it descended into the Korean War.
Plumbing, electrical, and carpentry workers who have descended into the city by the hundreds are also finding housing here, assigned to temporary addresses in Little Rose City.
Photos released by the agency on Tuesday showed passengers clinging to the listing vessel as others descended into the heavy seas using ropes hung over its side.
He was charged with treason and detained for weeks in 2018 after a faceoff between his supporters and Museveni's party descended into chaos during a by-election.
But as the world descended into the biggest recession since the Great Depression, it took Abby and Scott 12 to 18 months before they made a profit.
That could arise if a Bolsonaro presidency descended into permanent conflict, both within the government and between it and an opposition inflamed by Mr Bolsonaro's verbal aggression.
That's a bit hard to do when the world has been ravaged by an unexplained apocalypse and what remains of humanity has descended into madness and murder.
The former French colony, a majority Christian nation, descended into turmoil in early 2013 when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power, provoking reprisals by Christian militia fighters.
I almost wish I had gotten drunk or even descended into a hangover before eating this — it's a mighty sandwich, not made for a casual taste tester.
But consider that until the Republican Party descended into total chaos, Republican candidates were doing a pretty good job decoupling themselves from Trump without much Democratic resistance.
On his watch, Venezuela has descended into troubles that include regular rolling blackouts due to stress on the power grid, as well as food and medicine shortages.
Libya descended into chaos after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and rival governments and militias have been competing for the country's oil wealth ever since.
This may yet be the lasting image of the war on terror, in which, deprived of tangible violence, the combatants descended into a melee of pen-pushing.
The sordid business then descended into farrago of charges and counter-charges between Cohen and Daniels's lawyer, and hints that Daniels has lascivious information about Trump, including
Central African Republic descended into turmoil in early 2013 when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power in the majority Christian nation, provoking reprisals by Christian militia fighters.
The Soviet Union was no longer around to prop up the economy, and Venezuela, which for a time filled the void, descended into its own economic hell.
Outside, our neighborhood descended into darkness at twilight, but if I stared hard enough at windows blurred with ice, I could just make out little dancing lights.
Nixon's presidency itself descended into oblivion, but his silent majority of hard hats and conformists carried forward, dominating American politics for the rest of the 20th century.
But as these debates descended into squabbles over stats and Senate procedures, or who did what under President Barack Obama's tenure, deeper, existential questions were left untouched.
After Syria's 2011 Arab Spring protests descended into civil war, Aleppo became a key base for a number of different rebel factions opposed to the Assad regime.
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport descended into chaos Sunday after a massive power outage stranded thousands of customers and forced airlines to cancel more than 1,150 flights.
Arriving off the coast of Wales, the SkyGuardian descended into a holding pattern above Cirencester before coming in to land at Fairford, using an automated landing system.
The White House descended into a flurry of recriminations and meetings on Monday as staffers quarreled over how to control a deepening public health and economic crisis.
Exhausted, I descended into the Métro and rode Line 203 for nearly its entire length, west to east, across Paris's midsection to get back to my hotel.
A march by a neo-Nazi group outside California's Capitol in Sacramento descended into chaos on Sunday after the demonstrators were attacked by groups of counter-protesters.
Since 2014, however, as the three Central American countries have descended into a pandemic of violence, more than 150,000 of these minors have arrived at the border.
In the later years of the Troubles, when Mr. Haggarty came to prominence, many loyalist groups had descended into drug dealing, organized crime and vicious internal feuds.
The Iowa caucuses descended into chaos earlier this month, leaving the results of the caucus still in question weeks after Iowans gathered to express their presidential preference.
Some talk ominously of Iraq going the way of Syria, where protests descended into civil war, and where the government is beholden to Iranian-backed Shia militias.
In a daring two-hour nighttime raid on October 27, US Special Forces troops in helicopters descended into a compound containing ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Their insults were an impressive display of staying on message for an administration and party that has descended into infighting over the elements of the repeal plan.
Afghanistan, its neighbor to the east, descended into chaos following the American-led invasion of 2001; Iraq, across its western border, suffered the same fate after 2003.
As the country descended into violence, the companies were forced to pay off the men who controlled the roads, whether they were crooked officials, warlords, or Taliban.
At one point she descended into a bizarre spat with Mr Buttigieg, alleging he had a plan to send American soldiers to fight drug cartels in Mexico.
On Sunday, what began as a mostly peaceful protest earlier in the day descended into violence in some of the Chinese territory's busiest shopping and tourist districts.
Michigan The issue became a topic of discussion leading up to the World Economic Forum earlier this year as billionaires and world leaders descended into Davos, Switzerland.
Mr. Cuomo revived the idea of congestion pricing in 2017 after the subway descended into crisis and it became clear that a new revenue source was needed.
Race, which stars Selma's Stephan James as Owens and Jason Sudeikis as Larry Snyder, Owens' coach at Ohio State, could easily have descended into Hollywood rah-rah.
Riot police surrounded Hong Kong's parliament early on Monday after what had been a peaceful protest against the bill descended into running clashes between police and protesters.
Over 10,000 people have been killed in the conflict and those who survive are now facing what has rapidly descended into the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
Egypt has carried out air strikes in Libya occasionally since its neighbour descended into factional fighting in the years following the 2011 civil war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
Not only is it more tuneful and exciting than it's given credit for, it served a higher purpose in rousing Bowie from the lethargy that he'd descended into.
Photos distributed via the National Disaster Mitigation Agency showed passengers perched on the listing vessel as others descended into the heavy seas using ropes hung over its side.
Anti-government protests in August descended into some of the worst violence seen in the southern African nation for two decades as anger over economic hardship boiled over.
It was there for me as I descended into a pit of depression, unable to entice myself to finish assignments, or to roll out of bed before noon.
These are the kinds of paranoid accusations her father, the Mad King Aerys Targaryen (David Rintoul), likely dabbled in before he descended into pure, "burn them all!" madness.
Spain descended into its worst political crisis since the restoration of democracy in the 1970s, when separatist leaders in Catalonia attempted to push forward with the region's secession.
Protesters chanted anti-Trump slogans, held anti-Trump signs and waved Mexican flags before the demonstration descended into chaos with some protesters standing on top of police cars.
Then there are the flashbacks: During Season 1, they provided valuable backstory that illuminated how the US had descended into the masculinist nightmare our characters find themselves in.
When I had it write the ending of the Harry Potter theme in the style of a video game soundtrack, it eventually descended into the stuff of nightmares.
Libya descended into chaos in 2011 with the revolution that saw the fall of Moammar Gadhafi, and since 2014, competing bodies have claimed to be the rightful government.
Nestlé's use of the water continued with relatively few obstacles for decades, but began to draw scrutiny and criticism in recent years as California descended into extreme drought.
Eight people have been killed and more than 700 hurt in the unrest, which occurred after peaceful rallies descended into chaos after nightfall over three days this week.
As the early and mostly negative reviews of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice crash-landed on Earth Tuesday evening, the DC fan community descended into civil war.
Last week a Donald Trump rally in San Jose, California, descended into all-too-familiar chaos, as fights broke out between Trump haters, Trump lovers, and the police.
But instead of taking meaningful action, Congress descended into general tech support interrogations and increasingly petty accusations of platform bias, culminating in the painfully embarrassing Diamond & Silk hearing.
But the scenic spot descended into chaos on Wednesday night when a fight between two women erupted into a brawl so wild that police were forced to attend.
Some descended into bloody civil war, with some rebels promising access to Satyr, others promising to cleanse their country of all pornography, and to imprison or massacre viewers.
However, it could prove a challenge for a government trying to rebuild a nation battered by clan rivalries and Islamist insurgents after it descended into war in 1991.
Egypt has carried out air strikes in Libya occasionally since its neighbor descended into factional fighting in the years following the 2011 civil war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
"It descended into hours of voice messaging each other every day which was weirdly nice but he kept asking me to send him pics of me," she says.
The march, organized by the Civil Human Rights Front, began as a peaceful protest but quickly descended into chaos as some protesters advanced past police barricades and stormed
The strike was a disaster; with no officers on duty, the city descended into chaos, and the soldiers who were brought in to restore order killed eight people.
The hashtag initially seemed to be a lighthearted joke about the generational differences between age groups and quickly descended into a fire ball of doomsday, petrol-bomb proportions.
Syria seemed to have descended into barbarism, and, in the eyes of the international community, the harsh stability of the Assad dictatorship came to appear reasonable, even desirable.
The rivalry has simmered for years, but according to a confidential report drafted by the investigators and seen by Reuters, areas of the north have descended into lawlessness.
The country's economy has descended into chaos in the past few years due to a plunge in global oil prices and a botched government response to the crisis.
But haunted in part by the controversy over that fight, Pryor descended into cocaine addiction and was stripped of his title in 1985 for failing to defend it.
As California has descended into wildfire hell, with ever bigger blazes burning ever more intensely over the past few years, an unlikely firefighting hero has emerged: the goat.
When they descended into squabbles over old votes -- whether it was Biden's Iraq War vote or Sanders' gun votes -- they both looked small and really out of touch.
A trio of players — Oliveros with her accordion, Stuart Dempster with his trombone and didgeridoo, Panaiotis with his electronics — descended into a cistern 14 feet under the ground.
" The DFLA march descended into violence early on, with dozens of DFLA supporters reportedly fighting cops and one threatening an officer and screaming "I'm going to kill you.
The changes to the speed limit are one piece of Mr. Byford's sweeping plans to turn around service and modernize a system that descended into crisis last year.
Libya has since descended into a bubbling state of semi-anarchy and is a haven for human smugglers who exploit refugees and migrants seeking boat passage to Europe.
But when we and the Europeans failed to organize a follow-up peacekeeping force on the ground, Libya descended into disorder, unleashing another destabilizing refugee flow into Europe.
The financial support Jordan and Lebanon need to remain economically viable is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost if either one descended into civil strife.
Kalder writes, as many have before, about Mao's successful courtship of Western writers and leaders, who kept the Maoist myth alive as his cult descended into barbaric absurdity.
LONDON — The Labour party descended into a fresh bout of infighting on Sunday evening as Debbie Abrahams was told to leave the shadow cabinet following allegations of bullying.
In Libya, military strongman Khalifa Haftar, whom critics call the new Gaddafi, is waging war to take over a country that had already descended into bloodshed since 2011.
Thus America, like most other member states, tragically refrained from assisting a small, overwhelmed force of United Nations peacekeepers when Rwanda descended into genocidal slaughter and rape in 21997.
" Essex Police added: "There is a possibility that residents nearby may have heard a loud noise, often associated with a sonic boom, as the aircraft descended into Stansted airspace.
Twitter descended into a meltdown after Fox News' commentator Bill O'Reilly lashed out at an alleged "liberal conspiracy" from the left to take power away from the "white establishment".
After nearly a decade of economic growth spurred by the market reforms of the 260s and by rising oil prices, the Russian economy has descended into Soviet-era stagnation.
ISTANBUL — As the Middle East has descended into bitter sectarian conflict in recent years, Turkey has tried to remain above the fray, posing as an honest broker and peacemaker.
On Friday evening, the protest site outside Beirut's governmental headquarters descended into a cloud of smoke as security fired scores of rounds of tear gas at the large crowd.
From there, the set descended into chaos with both players broken twice and Nadal forced to save four set points before Dimitrov evened up the contest on the fifth.
With Donald J. Trump leading the way, the campaign has repeatedly descended into a kind of primal struggle among men, each seeking to outdo his rivals through brutish intimidation.
However, they soon descended into violent clashes with armed police, who were accused of excessive force to suppress the protesters, using water cannons, tear gas, and even live rounds.
A Chinese robotic lander and rover, which launched from China in early December, descended into a crater on the side of the Moon that's always facing away from Earth.
As it descended into Saturn's atmosphere, several of its instruments were turned on, including the mass spectrometer, which could essentially "sniff" the atmosphere and determine the chemical compounds therein.
Central African Republic descended into turmoil after mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted President Francois Bozize in 2013, provoking retaliation killings by "anti-balaka" militias, drawn largely from Christian communities.
Even the stuff that didn't work — like a visit from Kimmel and several stars to a nearby theater that descended into very mild chaos — was at least conceptually fun.
So even as the Russia investigation mushroomed, the courts fought Trump over his travel ban, and the federal government generally descended into a state of chaos, traders ran wild.
Instead of climbing towers to unlock portions of the map like in Far Cry, I descended into bunkers to find maps of the surrounding area left behind by survivalists.
Yemen descended into violence in late 2014 when the Houthis, a group that follows the Zaidi branch of Shi'ite Islam, marched on Sanaa and seized control of the government.
Among those filing the suit, one had a stroke, two were injured and others suffered psychological and emotional distress when the protest descended into a brawl, the complaint said.
PARIS (Reuters) - Anti-police protests in the aftermath of alleged police brutality in a Paris suburb earlier this month descended into violence in the French capital on Wednesday night.
" According the Huck, the scene at the restaurant descended into "chaos," with staff surely going to spend the night "chasing crickets and picking cockroaches out the red-onion relish.
South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir fired Machar as his deputy, unleashing a conflict that has spawned armed factions often following ethnic lines.
Stanton had descended into a deep funk since his return last month to Miami, where he had spent his career before engineering a trade to the Yankees last December.
A court session in The Hague, meant as a finishing note to a decades-long legal process over the atrocities of the Bosnian and Croatian wars, descended into chaos.
What was once a war between Christians and Muslims there has descended into a chaotic and brutal battle for the country's many natural resources, which has devastated its residents.
But in a session that began as a subdued conversation and sometimes descended into tears and shouting, policy proposals were overshadowed by raw expressions of fear, anger and sorrow.
The board has raised fares every two years, but this is the first fare increase to be considered since the subway descended into crisis in the summer of 2017.
Muammar el-Qaddafi, and said that Yemen, like Iraq and Libya, had descended into chaos in part because of Mr. Saleh's failure to build durable institutions while in office.
They wielded batons and fired rubber bullets in an attempt to close down polling stations and disperse voters — clashes that dominated news coverage, as the vote descended into chaos.
The future of any new funding is in doubt, though, given that Congress has descended into finger-pointing over which party is to blame for holding up funding legislation.
As President Trump's plane descended into Beijing airport, the American press was focused on a group of kleptocratic American basketball players and how the Chinese government would treat shoplifters.
President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to recover "every inch" of Syria, which descended into a multi-sided conflict after the eruption of protests against his rule in 2011.
Hundreds of students at Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University, two universities in the capital, New Delhi, were reportedly injured after protests descended into violent clashes with police.
On August 27, a KFC in Atlanta, Georgia, descended into chaos as lines of cars and people stretched around the location, which had been painted green for the day.
Nujaifi told Reuters he is committed to promoting unity in Iraq, which has descended into a sectarian civil war since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
They're trapped in the events of the late 1980s, when Laura died and everything descended into horror, because when something so terrible happens, it's impossible to escape its clutches.
Suharto, who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for 32 years, was forced from office in 1998 as the world's fourth most populous nation descended into economic and social chaos.
The president also gloated this week as the Democratic Party's caucuses in Iowa descended into chaos and ended in a muddled result that suggests a long primary battle to come.
Newly declassified letters Blair sent to President George W. Bush reveal his soul-searching in the lead-up to war, during the 216 invasion and as Iraq descended into chaos.
South Sudan, the world's youngest country, descended into civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir fired his deputy, unleashing a conflict that has spawned a patchwork of armed factions.
It started as an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011, and later descended into a civil war that has left 400,000 people dead, according to the United Nations.
That is its highest level since mid-2013 when a wave of blockades and protests by armed groups started after Libya descended into conflict following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
The argument descended into a shootout, resulting in the owner and his son dying from "multiple gunshot wounds" and the customers being transferred to intensive care, Sun Herald newspaper reported.
America's first mass shooting of the past seven days came around 2:20 AM last Saturday, when a house party in Albuquerque, New Mexico, descended into gunfire, leaving four wounded.
Chefs with tattoos is a subject that could have easily descended into cliche shots of tatted up "hipster" chefs, but author Isaac Fitzgerald and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton deftly sidestep this.
Then, as the modern era dawned, China descended into domestic chaos and India found itself a direct colony of Britain, precluding any deeper ties as long as those conditions persisted.
When the French descended into regicide and then terror, the philosopher Edmund Burke shook his head and later wrote approvingly of his compatriots' aversion to "pure reason" and "abstract" principles.
As both the parties that have dominated post-war Germany descended into internal squabbling, a new INSA poll showed their popularity had slumped, their combined support at just 46 percent.
On our last expedition, we pulled off the coastal highway about 10 miles north of Beirut, drove up into the hills above Jounieh, and descended into the Dog River Valley.
" But he added, "It all comes down to winning the election, not dividing our party, and I think that this presidential election has descended into more of a schoolyard scuffle.
Meanwhile, the conservative movement has recently descended into a cesspool of sometimes violent white nationalism that includes armed militia offshoots who wait fervently for some kind of post-apocalyptic wonderland.
The attack came after the rally in this Virginia college town had descended into chaos — with violent brawling between attendees and counterdemonstrators — and authorities had forced the crowd to disband.
INDIANAPOLIS — The National Rifle Association leadership descended into total crisis over the weekend, but you'd never know that walking among the thousands of gun lovers at the organization's 2019 convention.
It was a far cry from Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, when a rally of neo-Nazis and white nationalists descended into chaos and led to the death of a counterprotester.
Ru the dungeon master descended into the Rajneeshee-toned oubliette to collar the girls into this week's mini-challenge: a screen test for a commercial for his charitable chocolate bars.
On the right, these explanations have descended into ever deeper voodoo; the Kansas experiment was based on obvious nonsense, and has turned out even worse than cynics might have suggested.
As a result, a large faction of the country has descended into paranoia and conspiracy theories, fighting intensely against the basic rules, norms, and post-war assumptions of American life.
It is widely recognized today that the "new" Libya quickly succumbed to the rule of lawless militias and descended into a new civil war and refugee crisis that endure today.
President Trump is correct that the 1828 race between Andrew Jackson and the incumbent, John Quincy Adams, was hard-fought and often descended into ad hominem attacks on both sides.
The state's nominating contest descended into confusion and chaos on Monday, after "inconsistencies" in the reporting of results prompted the state Democratic Party to hold off on releasing any numbers.
His nine-year marriage to Kathie Durst had descended into violence in 1982 when she abruptly vanished, only five months short of fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming a doctor.
Parchman, the oldest prison in Mississippi, with a notorious reputation for harsh conditions, has descended into dilapidation and chaos, including a recent burst of violence that left several inmates dead.
The march on Sunday afternoon came a week after a rally outside the United States Consulate descended into vandalism, and followed days of smaller pro-democracy rallies around the city.
Most weekends, black-clad protesters throng the streets in demonstrations that have increasingly descended into violent clashes with police, who often fire tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds.
The world's current situation too eerily parallels the fractured state of the world right around the time of World War I, when an interconnected, globalized economy descended into national tribalism.
In the end, the children had become their greatest fear and their greatest enemy; the island was no longer a refuge, but a battleground as the inhabitants descended into chaos.
Celebrations for the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong descended into chaos on Monday night as protesters and police clashed over the crackdown on a street market in the Kowloon neighborhood.
Hong Kong (CNN)The first day of the new Hong Kong parliament descended into farce as several young lawmakers staged curse-laden protests at the swearing in of city's Legislative Council.
Such is the mood in Rakhine, a state racked by years of conflict between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims that has descended into a state-led assault on the Rohingyas.
Protests scheduled over the weekend include 'Shopping Sunday' centred on prominent shopping malls, some of which have previously descended into chaos as riot police stormed areas crowded with families and children.
It became a landmark of the Grand Rapids area; employees returning home from business trips would proudly make note of it as their flights descended into the Gerald R. Ford Airport.
On Sunday, peaceful rallies in the city descended into chaos, leading to the destruction of Beijing-linked shops and the closure of at least 27 train stations, according to the BBC.
By the spring of 2011, army tanks rolled into the town, rebel forces took up positions to fight the army, and the town and the surrounding areas, descended into unrelenting violence.
But the health care exchange was dull in comparison to previous debates, in which the candidates jumped into and out of fiery free-for-alls that descended into shouting and chaos.
A contingent of 13 international cave diving experts and five Thai Navy Seals descended into the watery network of underground tunnels below the Mae Sai mountains to reach the boys Sunday.
Instead, it has descended into chaos and seen countries such as Tanzania pull out of the games over what they say is poor organization and a lack of communication from organizers.
One was going to be in Kobe' Japan—I designed a 1.6km circle that descended into the ground on an existing terrain characteristic' meaning they didn't have to scoop out everything.
When the global financial crisis hit in 2008, her father, who works in finance, lost everything, and Swarbrick felt she had to fend for herself even as she descended into depression.
That was nearly a year ago, after a march of neo-Nazis descended into violence and a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of peaceful protesters, killing a woman.
But official attitudes have been changing lately, particularly as Russia and the West have descended into a new Cold War prompted by the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine.
After a long evening at a taverna, under colored lights and grape leaves, she descended into a boat with a new friend while I trudged back to our small hotel alone.
The two leaders have become embroiled in a public war of words over Brazil's handling of the Amazon fires and the international response, which has descended into a deeply personal spat.
President Suharto, who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for 32 years, was forced from office in 1998 as the world's fourth most populous nation descended into economic and social chaos.
And, any even mildly-neutral examination of Trump's White House over the past few weeks would conclude that it had descended into something approaching total chaos -- sidetracked by departures and distractions.
The world K-pop fandom descended into chaos on Thursday when the iconic boy band BTS dropped a new single on TikTok — and a search function on the platform promptly crashed.
Leandowski appeared before the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month in a combative hearing that quickly descended into chaos when the former campaign manager decried Democratic efforts to investigate the president.
The planet descended into one of its two primordial "snowball Earth" periods 2.4 billion years ago amid a rise in oxygen in an atmosphere formerly dominated by methane and carbon dioxide.
On Monday, a makeshift memorial for Hussle in the parking lot where he was killed descended into chaos after hundreds of mourners abruptly tried to flee the scene, causing a stampede.
Mr. Kher's presence led to scenes rarely seen at a literature festival: The language frequently descended into something less than parliamentary, and Mr. Kher found himself booed and cheered in equal measure.
In 2008, when the country descended into chaos after evidence of vote-rigging delegitimized the country's presidential elections, M-PESA became the primary way to get money to people trapped in cities.
The rally was dispersed by police minutes after its scheduled start at noon, after clashes between rallygoers and counter-protesters, and after a torchlit pre-rally march Friday night descended into violence.
On Monday night, a vigil held outside Marathon Clothing, a store owned by Hussle and the site of the shooting, descended into chaos, injuring 19 after a "loud noise" prompted a stampede.
But police arrested him within minutes of his assault of the officer, long before the unrest descended into what was far more clearly a riot, involving brick-throwing and lighting of fires.
He was in charge of organizing the 2014 presidential election, the country's first democratic transfer of power, which descended into near-chaos when both Ghani and his rival, Abdullah Abdullah claimed victory.
South Sudan descended into civil war in December 2013 when a row between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar ended with fighting that often ran along ethnic fault lines.
The much-anticipated first vote of the Democratic primary season, in Iowa, also descended into chaos on Monday night following the botched rollout of an app that was meant to communicate votes.
The event descended into chaos and violence outside the Brookings Institute near D.C.'s Dupont Circle after the president's security personnel confronted a small group of people gathered to protest Erdogan's visit.
As Venezuela has descended into political turmoil this year, Russia has emerged as a staunch backer of President Nicolas Maduro while the United States backs the country's opposition and has imposed sanctions.
After suffering a near total defeat by US forces in Iraq between 2007 and 2010, al Qaeda regrouped in neighboring Syria as that country descended into a civil war beginning in 2011.
Hong Kong's embattled leadership slammed protesters as "thugs" and "rioters" after weekend protests descended into violence that left dozens hospitalized — including one police officer who had part of his finger bitten off.
South Sudan descended into civil war in December 2013 when a row between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy, Riek Machar, ended with fighting that often erupted along ethnic fault lines.
While trade relations between the U.S. and China have descended into a relay of tariffs and counter-tariffs, developments to reform trade on the African continent are telling a very different story.
Unfortunately, Washington has descended into a rhetorical abyss in which credibility rests on shrill chanting about a "new Cold War" with little time devoted to serious thinking about how to wage it.
The world's youngest nation, South Sudan gained independence in 2011, but descended into civil war four years ago when President Salva Kiir accused his deputy Riek Machar of trying to oust him.
South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013, only two years after independence, when Kiir fired his Nuer deputy, Riek Machar, unleashing a conflict that has since splintered along multiple ethnic lines.
The green turned greener still as we descended into the Fergana Valley, the lush ancient corridor between Greek, Chinese, Bactrian and Parthian civilizations, finally arriving in the Silk Road city of Osh.
The reconfiguring is part of an emergency plan that transit officials announced several months ago as the subway descended into crisis, plagued by soaring delays and frequent breakdowns of its aging infrastructure.
Instead, the city descended into unprecedented chaos on Monday, as protesters demonstrating against a controversial extradition bill stormed the government headquarters, and police cleared protesters massed outside with tear gas and batons.
Having gained an important foothold in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's removal in 2003, Iran further extended its reach as Syria descended into chaos after 2011, coming to President Bashar al-Assad's rescue.
The high-stakes battle about the eligibility of Sun, a six-time Olympic medalist and a star in his native China, at the Court of Arbitration for Sport quickly descended into confusion.
By most accounts, the Senate and F.B.I. investigations remain on track, unlike the House inquiry, which appears to have increasingly descended into a sideshow since its first public hearing a week ago.
The institution descended into carnage after a protest turned into clashes between Delhi police and students, with demonstrators allegedly setting fire to buses, throwing stones at police officers, and damaging public property.
The further I removed myself from the people I knew in the real world, the further I descended into the minds of people I've never interacted with and would never meet again.
Evergreen State College descended into chaos last month after Bret Weinstein, a professor there, objected to a planned "Day of Absence" event where white students and faculty were encouraged to leave campus.
Taking a small faction from a backwater power to a region-spanning empire often descended into long, wearying grinds against swarms of AI opponents who weren't so much adversaries as militant speedbumps.
After a set at New York City's Comic Strip Live on Wednesday, Sandler descended into the subway—completely incognito—where he managed to get his hands on some busker's microphone, TMZ reports.
Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar sparked fighting, often along ethnic lines.
I remain proud of my service, even more so because the Marine Corps afforded me the medical treatment I needed when I descended into a haze of alcohol addiction, hypervigilance and major depression.
The spiral staircases and rows of rivets made me feel as if I had descended into Captain Nemo's submarine in Jules Verne's classic science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
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From there, everything descended into chaos as a huge police deployment moved towards the main Harcourt Road protest camp from multiple directions, eventually forcing protesters onto roads leading towards Central and Wan Chai.
Yemen descended into a civil war last March when the Houthis forced Hadi to flee to Saudi Arabia after they closed in on Aden, drawing a Saudi-led coalition into the Yemen conflict.
Defiant protesters What originally started out as a peaceful march descended into chaos on Friday evening -- with MRT stations burned, the Bank of China set on fire and police attacked in the streets.
The current revival of interest in the West is in part simply a return to the norm; in the 20th century much of Europe and America descended into peculiar ignorance on the subject.
Following the massacre, Congress descended into chaos over gun control legislation, including a bill that would prevent people who have appeared on any form of terror watch list form buying firearms and explosives.
On Thursday, Billy McFarland, who organized the festival, was sentenced to six years in prison for defrauding investors and ticket holders by promising a high-end music festival that instead descended into chaos.
Syria's civil war, which began when a peaceful uprising descended into violence in 2011, has resulted in more than 300,000 deaths and displaced more than 11 million people, half its pre-war population.
Central African Republic descended into chaos in March 2013 when predominantly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power, triggering reprisals by "anti-balaka" Christian militias who drove tens of thousands of Muslims from the south.
In a June 28 editorial, China's official Xinhua news agency said the confrontation between Vanke's management and its major shareholders had descended into "irrational wilfulness" that was hurting growth, employees and shareholder returns.
In Hindu theology, Vishnu assumes various earthbound avatars — among them a fish; a tortoise; a half-man, half-lion — in an effort to restore order at times when humanity has descended into chaos.
Discussants across the spectrum of political theater as presented by print, television and radio bemoan the disappearance of American leadership in foreign affairs, with the result that the world has descended into chaos.
And the expression on the poor lad's face, at the climax of the tale, is one of genuine bewilderment, quivering with disbelief that his ordinary young life should have descended into the infernal.
These episodes included a meandering speech by Mr. Trump on Wednesday in Ohio, and a meeting on Thursday with Republican senators that descended into a clash with lawmakers who had not endorsed him.
They descended into the crowd, drawing hundreds of spectators into a promenade around the cobblestoned square, as Chopin's "Polonaise No. 3" played over loudspeakers and Pietrzak admonished those who declined to join in.
King Felipe is particularly disliked among independence supporters because of criticism he aimed at the Catalan leaders in a public address in 2017, shortly after an independence rally in Barcelona descended into violence.
As the raid was unfolding, Guzman escaped via a secret passage in a home that descended into a tunnel that led to the city's storm drains, a senior law enforcement source told CNN.
Somalia, one of the world's most war-torn nations, used to be home to thousands of elephants, but they were wiped out during the 1980s and '90s as the country descended into chaos.
Uber's leaders say there was another significant change in New York in the last three years: The city's subways have descended into a crisis and commuters have relied on Uber because of that.
The first ever Pride march in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv descended into scenes of violence Sunday, as mobs of ultranationalist thugs hunted down and assaulted marchers at the end of the event.
Meanwhile, the day's impeachment hearing -- into a scandal partly spawned by Trump's bid to prove that it was in fact Ukraine that meddled in the election three years ago -- descended into choleric feuding.
The space we descended into was larger than I had expected, an open room with booths along each side and, at the back, a bar I imagined crowded at night with university students.
Brexit descended into a public row between London and Brussels this week after a Downing Street source said a Brexit deal was essentially impossible because German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made unacceptable demands.
Central African Republic descended into chaos in March 2013 when the predominantly Muslim Seleka seized power, triggering reprisals by "anti-balaka" Christian militias who drove tens of thousands of Muslims from the south.
The film, which is being broadcast on Monday night, draws on the mass of footage shot by journalists and citizens with cellphones or other devices since Syria descended into civil war in 2011.
"It has not descended into madness totally, because there are still people who are trying to show the universality of our cultural experiences, but it's like a pot that is on the boil."
A protest on Thursday night in downtown Dallas over the recent police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota descended into chaos when at least one gunman opened fire, killing and wounding multiple police officers.
Lunar New Year celebrations in Hong Kong descended into chaos in the early hours of Tuesday morning, as street food vendors clashed violently with police, culminating in warning shots being fired by officers.
Mourners gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Wednesday to honor the woman who was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally that descended into violence last weekend.
Libya descended into chaos after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and rival governments and the militias that support them are fighting for control of the North African state and its energy reserves.
But as the country descended into spiraling violence triggered by Calderón's ill-conceived military offensive against organized crime, López Obrador was quietly securing a broader support base by visiting all of Mexico's 2,446 municipalities.
Those policies were shaped in large part by law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and financial adviser Millstein and Co. Both firms have represented the island since 2014, as it descended into economic crisis.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and Turkey squared up over old disputes on Thursday during a state visit to Athens by President Tayyip Erdogan that quickly descended into verbal sparring over a list of historical grievances.
During her testimony, Garcia said Ortega had suffered bouts of mental illness for years and that during their phone conversation, she felt her sister had descended into that state yet again, New York reports.
Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between Kiir and Machar — who was vice president then — sparked fighting, often along ethnic lines.
Yemen descended into a civil war in March when the Houthis forced Hadi to flee to Saudi Arabia after they closed in on Aden, drawing in a Saudi-led coalition into the Yemen conflict.
Libya descended into chaos after a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 led to the overthrow and killing of Gaddafi, with two competing governments backed by militias scrambling for control of the oil-producing country.
The hours-long standoff between police and students descended into chaos when officers in riot gear stormed into the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) campus, firing tear gas and other non-lethal projectiles.
Lawmakers were scheduled to vote on the final five remaining empty posts but managed only to approve Shaima Khalil as education minister and Nawfal Moussa as migration minister before the session descended into chaos.
Modern Western society has long been publicly grappling with how to judge women's voices, rights and experiences – debates that for over a century have descended into "he said, she said, " victim-blaming and shame.
The conservative movement and the Republican Party have descended into unrestrained tribalism, rallying around what is effectively a crime boss who it now appears was elected with the help of a hostile foreign power.
Now ruled by a deeply unpopular, autocratic president in the seventh year of a five-year term, the DRC has descended into a tragic state of normalized ethnic violence, mass rape and widespread starvation.
From there, the actress descended into what can only be described as a downward spiral: a DUI arrest, reports of erratic behavior, speculation about her mental health, bizarre tweets, and, in 2013, drug charges.
Bloomberg Businessweek, in a well-reported piece describing what it was like inside the White House as this trade war descended into the farcical, obtained a quote so good it made this reporter jealous.
Underscoring the vast scale of the crisis, a line of fire that appeared to span at least two miles descended into Alexander Valley, a wine grape growing region in Geyserville along the Russian River.
And then the show just throws it all away in favor of chasing something it believes to be more attention-grabbing, just as Friday Night Lights descended into stories of sexy hookups and murder.
The insurer fired Moyo in June but he was temporarily reinstated by a judge - a decision Old Mutual is appealing - and relations between the two have descended into a messy, and very public, battle.
After a Champagne reception at sunset on the terrace, guests descended into the nearby vineyards, where a lavish supper and a raft of rare vintage Champagnes awaited them, as well as a fireworks display.
It's an open question whether Trump has truly descended into self-parody or whether he has just learned to co-opt the strategies of those who would use satire to hold him to account.
In the late afternoon, I walked to Babu Ghat, and onto the broad concrete slipway that descended into the water, where a few moored boats bobbed slowly and men and children bathed in underclothes.
Ruling in the name of the African masses, he was uneasy with those same ordinary people, whose lives descended into destitution as a gaudy elite accumulated mansions, Mercedes-Benzes and millions of American dollars.
They will remember because they will be living either in a world that has surmounted this challenge, or one that has descended into chaos because we — the people of today — let this tragedy unfold.
A coalition to pick a single presidential aspirant among these candidates last year descended into chaos, amplifying concerns that the emerging political class might not be different from their predecessors, given the same chance.
"Instead of working together to protect Americans, Washington has descended into another partisan fight, with both parties blaming each other for inaction on a growing and deadly health threat," Buchanan wrote in a statement.
Following the call, the meeting descended into a squabble between the Democrats and administration officials, including economic adviser Gary Cohn, with the two sides blaming each other for the broken nature of the Senate.
How can the people who have done so many bad things to themselves, who are "deprived of all knowledge" and who have descended into killing one another, be expected to turn the ship aright?
South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 but descended into war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir fired his deputy Riek Machar, unleashing a conflict that has spawned armed factions often along ethnic lines.
In Portland in June, the city government attempted to revoke a permit for a pro-Trump "free speech" rally, but didn't succeed — then dispersed the rally and a counter-protest when they descended into violence.
The Cassini craft actually descended into the plume and sampled its makeup, finding chemical mix that included 98 percent water and 1 percent hydrogen, as well as traces of other gases like CO2 and methane.
Several top Democrats told CNN publicly and privately that the energy and enthusiasm of Sanders supporters has at times descended into incendiary attacks that threaten to tear apart efforts to unite Democrats against Donald Trump.
Thousands of curious and celebratory subway fans descended into the three new stations on New Year's Day to marvel at the sparkling new platforms, the public art, and the complete lack of trash or rats.
His wife and mother were allowed to see him behind a glass window on Monday, eight months after he was sentenced to death, but that gesture of goodwill appeared to have quickly descended into acrimony.
Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong descended into scenes of chaos Sunday night, after riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters, and a mob armed with batons attacked people in a metro station.
The event in Exumas, Bahamas, with packages costing up to $80,000, has descended into chaos, with half-built tents, piles of garbage and unopened boxes littering the site, and feral dogs wandering around, MailOnline reported.
Fyre Festival was supposed to be an exclusive music festival in 2017 featuring tons of influencers and partying on sandy beaches, before it descended into chaos and became a catch-all term for failed events.
Some, notably Bangladeshis, came to work in Libya but decided that the risk of staying in a country that has descended into anarchy was greater than that of crossing the Mediterranean in a fragile boat.
In Chile, free-marketeers' favourite economy in the region, protests against a rise in fares on the Santiago metro descended into rioting and then became a 1.2m-person march against inequality and inadequate public services.
What had started as a uniquely 85033st century form of organized protest has now descended into the more familiar violence of the Fronde that plays directly into Beijing's narrative and while alienating moderate local supporters.
HARARE (Reuters) - Robert Mugabe, the bush war guerrilla who led Zimbabwe to independence and crushed his foes during nearly four decades of rule as his country descended into poverty, hyperinflation and unrest, died on Friday.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Thursday sent out the armed forces to impose order after protests against his embattled administration descended into lawlessness overnight in parts of the capital, claiming two lives.
Starved of government attention, let alone funding, pan-religious coalitions like the nominally state-backed National Social Democratic Front descended into scheming and bickering, while provincial enthusiasts waited in vain for leadership from the capital.
The Indian laborers working for the British faced a hostile environment, including the sheer physical challenge of laying down 17,000 miles of track that climbed into mountains and then descended into the Great Rift Valley.
He consolidated power in Tunisia as Algeria, his small North African nation's neighbor to the west, descended into civil war and as Libya, neighboring on the east, was dominated by the strongman Muammar el-Qaddafi.
While Musk demonstrated a Tesla Model X that descended into the tunnel and drove a mellow 35 miles per hour during opening night, he envisions Hyperloop transport that will eventually reach 600 miles per hour.
Faced with increasingly hostile attitudes from particular groups towards women as Syria descended into a civil war, Zaina Erhaim took her camera into gynecological clinics and other areas that were completely off limits to men.
In Algeria's south and southeast, largely desolate areas with few inhabitants, the government has beefed up its security presence after neighboring Libya and northern Mali and Niger descended into lawlessness with various armed groups active.
Other media outlets, similarly driven by the hunger for ratings and anything damaging to the president, also descended into a Stormy obsession, hoping for a Trump stag film and a violation of campaign finance law.
That investigation has now descended into a partisan sideshow, and the White House on Friday returned to the unproven claim that started it all: Mr. Trump's accusation that he was "wiretapped" by President Barack Obama.
The encounter descended into chaos when the VAR was first used to award a debatable penalty three minutes from fulltime, yet the drama and disbelief escalated when Argentina forward Florencia Bonsegundo's spot kick was saved.
BROOKLYN, New York — In the months after Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was extradited from Mexico to New York to stand trial as the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, the city of Culiacán descended into chaos.
It was a stately day that came amid less dignified bickering between Trump and London's mayor, the elaborate displays of hospitality doing little to prevent Trump from dispatching insults over Twitter as he descended into London.
The country's parliament descended into chaos for a third straight day last Friday as lawmakers supporting Rajapaksa threw books, chili paste, water bottles and furniture at the speaker to try to disrupt the no-confidence vote.
The events unfolded on October 15, 2015, in the Southern Israeli city of Beersheba, when a normal day transformed into a nightmare as shots were fired, identities were mistaken, and a public space descended into chaos.
In a Friday tweet, Anne Serling — an author herself — pointed out that her father wouldn't have appreciated the present day face of the GOP, which has descended into mudslinging and a partisan gaming of the system.
During the last five years, he's lost his wife and descended into alcoholism, but when a dragon reappears, he's brought back to kill it, not knowing that he's playing a part in a much larger conflict.
The atmosphere in the arena, where 9,000 people were waiting to hear the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination speak, quickly descended into chaos, with verbal and physical fights breaking out between Trump supporters and demonstrators.
It would be a major step for a country that less than two decades ago almost descended into civil war, when parts of its ethnic Albanian minority took up arms against the government, seeking greater rights.
Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar ended with fighting, often along ethnic lines.
Libya descended into chaos after a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 led to the overthrow and killing of leader Muammar Gaddafi, with two competing governments backed by militias scrambling for control of the oil-producing country.
Even as the uprising in Aleppo and cities across Syria descended into conflict, several former residents interviewed by Reuters said they had hoped there could still be change, a negotiated settlement and a chance to return.
His voyage to end the first world war descended into farce: the press re-christened his vessel "the ship of fools" and the Norwegians diagnosed him as suffering from Stormannsgalskap, or the "madness of great men".
Iraq descended into civil war, mainly between Shi'ites and Sunnis, after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, and some Sunni Arab tribal leaders and former members of Saddam's Baath Party support Islamic State.
For now, Medellín has descended into a free-for-all where the bad guys are either in collaboration or at cross purposes with the good guys and the cycle of violence spins like a carnival wheel.
Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar exploded into fighting, often along ethnic lines.
Read more: Hong Kong protests descended into violence over surveillance concerns on the movement's 12th weekendA peaceful march was planned to protest against slingshots, poles, iron bars, and bricks in a fight with police, Cranley wrote.
Landmarks in other countries across the world – including the Acropolis hill in Greece, the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye in the United Kingdom – also descended into darkness briefly to mark this year's Earth Hour.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The Spanish government was reluctantly forced to send in national police to stop a referendum on Catalan independence that had descended into farce, the top Spanish official in the northeastern region said on Sunday.
At their peak, the rallies, which targeted everything from FIFA to political corruption to poor public services, drew over a million protesters, and frequently descended into violent clashes between black-bloc-style groups and thuggish police.
Over the course of a year Trump watched his top officials — the free-traders versus the protectionists — duke it out in front of him, in meetings that sometimes descended into officials flat out insulting each other.
And sources have hinted that the film may cover the "harrowing of hell" — the idea that between his death and resurrection, Jesus descended into hell and, in some traditions, freed the souls of the righteous dead.
At the F.S.A. compound, a narrow building in an enclosed courtyard, he descended into the bunker to find the leader of the Ahrar al-Sham battalion, a few of his fighters, and some Local Council officials.
But the demonstrations, which descended into violent clashes last December including in Paris, have had a sobering effect for French companies too, when many are also grappling with other pressures like a U.S.-China trade war.
The operation to dismantle a sprawling refugee camp in Northern France descended into chaos Thursday morning, less than 12 hours after the French authorities released a statement saying the clearance had been completed ahead of schedule.
The couple's marriage had descended into a hell of "fighting, slapping, pushing," as Mr. Durst told the producers of "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," a six-part HBO documentary broadcast in 2015.
Its long-serving authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was forced to resign in 2012 during the Arab Spring, but the country soon descended into a civil war between rival groups backed by Iran and Saudi Arabia.
A pre-Super Bowl concert hosted by Pepsi that was intended to feature Mark Ronson, Lizzo, and Harry Styles descended into disaster and chaos after the venue had to be evacuated, sending customers into a flood.
An arms embargo was first agreed to by the United Nations Security Council in 2011, but has repeatedly been violated by member states since the country descended into chaos following the overthrow that year of Col.
As the stand-off with the government stretched on, peaceful mass marches increasingly descended into violence -- and the movement quickly expanded to include demands for an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality and for universal suffrage.
"The city and state of Illinois descended into their worst-in-the-nation financial condition during one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history," Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation, a watchdog group, said.
In this week's latest aeronautic nightmare, a Delta flight descended into an actual vision of hell when the cabin inexplicably filled with smoke—forcing travelers to climb out onto the wings and evacuate down to the tarmac.
London-listed shares of Asia-focused banks Standard Chartered and HSBC dropped as protests in Hong Kong against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial descended into violent chaos.
There was little chance of a policy debate, but with the exception of a few moments on health care and on the selection of a Supreme Court justice, most of the night descended into charges and countercharges.
White nationalists once again descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, for a torch rally Saturday night, less than two months after the college town descended into chaos when violent clashes broke out between the group and people protesting them.
South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, descended into a two-year civil war in 2013 after Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused his vice president, Machar, who is an ethnic Nuer, of plotting a coup.
In April, jurors were tasked with deliberating whether the 55-year-old nanny intentionally killed the children or if she had descended into such a severe state of psychosis that she didn't know what she was doing.
Mr. Trump's celebrity and pugnacity had turned previous debates into widely watched spectacles that frequently descended into shouting matches, dueling insults and, in Mr. Trump's case, frequent mockery of his rivals as listless, flailing and even ugly.
HARARE, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police on Friday fired tear gas at opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and former vice president Joice Mujuru as a protest rally against President Robert Mugabe descended into violence, a Reuters witness said.
And after 13 months away from the fight game, Rousey's reliability and consistency—traits we took for granted—only look more impressive now that the kingdom she once ruled with an iron fist has descended into anarchy.
Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, descended into Baghdad on Monday, the highest-profile passenger aboard his military aircraft was neither a seasoned Iraq hand nor even someone who'd visited the country before.
PARIS (Reuters) - A punch-up between two rival French rappers that descended into a mass brawl in the departure lounge of Paris' Orly airport on Wednesday forced the brief closure of one terminal and caused flight delays.
Mexico has traditionally sought to steer clear of diplomatic spats, but in the past few months it has adopted robust language to condemn the governments of Venezuela and North Korea as they descended into increasing international isolation.
Kurdish-led forces have established control over swathes of eastern and northern Syria since the country descended into civil war in 2011, setting up their own governments but always saying their aim was autonomy rather than independence.
Oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, descended into civil war in December 2013 when a dispute between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar ended with fighting, often occurring along ethnic lines.
The coverage captured daily routines that had descended into rounds of waiting - hours upon hours of hanging out in corridors, staring through windows and smoking in doorways as legal appeals ground on miles away in the capital.
Turkey is backing Venezuela and advocating for drop in Iranian sanctions Turkey is among a handful of countries, including China and Russia, backing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as his country has descended into humanitarian and economic crises.
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament descended into chaos on Sunday when lawmakers brawled over the appointment of a new speaker, an inauspicious start to the assembly which was sitting for the first time since chaotic elections last year.
Since then, Yemen has descended into a civil war that pits a Gulf Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia and Yemeni forces loyal to Hadi against the Houthi militia, backed by Iran, and forces allied to Saleh.
Last August, Anglin's publication was banned by many internet domain providers after a rally organized by white nationalists and other hate groups in Charlottesville, Va., descended into violence that eventually ended in the death of three people.
"I casually mentioned that to the governor when Trump & Cruz (and others) descended into a world of negativity and division," Mr. Weaver wrote in an email, referring to Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
But as Libya descended into civil conflict over the last few years, Emirati officials backed an eastern Libyan faction and grew hostile to Libyans, including the Eldarats, associated with a rival western Libyan bloc, the family said.
As companies and the EU set out the dislocation they feared from an abrupt Brexit, the British parliament descended into uproar when opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn appeared to mouth the words "stupid woman" about May.
The scene to the north, in Kowloon, "descended into chaos as rioters hijacked public order events and resorted to destructive acts like building barricades on roads, setting fires and vandalising public facilities," according to a police account.
The party conference follows Merkel's announcement of her CDU picks for a new, younger cabinet intended to revive the party, which has descended into rows about how to respond to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Mexico has traditionally sought to steer clear of diplomatic ructions, but in the past few months it has adopted robust language to condemn the governments of Venezuela and North Korea as they descended into increasing international isolation.
The scene to the north, in Kowloon, "descended into chaos as rioters hijacked public order events and resorted to destructive acts like building barricades on roads, setting fires and vandalizing public facilities," according to a police account.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Senate impeachment trial of suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff descended into a shouting match between her political supporters and opponents during its second day on Friday, forcing a two-hour halt in the proceedings.
At the top of last year, 113 lucky ticket holders descended into the bowels of London's Somerset House to watch Harvey and her collaborators—namely producer Flood and John Parish—through a one way pane of glass.
CEO Elon Musk has said the process has descended into "production hell" Duarte's lawyer is applying for class-action status and, if approved, plans to ask for two months of pay for every affected employee, according to Jalopnik.
So, look, here is what&aposs so interesting about Chelsea Handler, she is another one of these "comedians" that has descended into this political hatred of this president, but let&aposs talk about the immigration issue right here.
It will be the first time Machar-allied troops will be deployed in Juba since December 2013, when a row between Kiir and his sacked deputy quickly descended into a civil war that often ran along ethnic lines.
He said one of his priorities was to see the lifting of the arms embargo on Libya, which was introduced in 2011 as the country descended into turmoil following the downfall of its long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi.
But this time, France is allegedly carrying out discreet, potentially secret, operations against a new threat — the expansion of the Islamic State's (IS) influence in Libya, which descended into chaos following the fall of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
It was a nice bonus that Church-Cooper (with the help of Azaria and co-star Amanda Peet) turned Brockmire into an earnest riff on baseball, Americana, and the curious comforts of a life that's descended into hopelessness.
The sheer manic riff-dom of it all should have descended into self parody (and maybe it did!) but the end result was transcendent, with audience members not even attempting to hide a childlike glee in the cacophony.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A peaceful mass protest in Hong Kong over an extradition bill descended into violence in the early hours of Monday as several hundred protesters clashed with a similar number of police outside the city's parliament.
Jurors were charged with deliberating whether the 55-year-old nanny intentionally killed the children in her care — or if she had descended into such a severe state of psychosis that she didn't know what she was doing.
Taiwan's diplomatic efforts have at times descended into farce, with some countries like Liberia switching ties several times, sometimes in the space of a few years, depending on the money they could wrangle out of Taipei or Beijing.
And it was super weird not to stop to check my email to make sure there was nothing pressing before I descended into the depths of the 2/3 station for the 30-minute ride into the city.
By the time she was 24, she had descended into a spiral of guilt, shame, and unhappiness that only ended when she accepted she wasn't just bad at managing her diabetes – she was suffering from an eating disorder.
Libya and Syria, following Iraq earlier, descended into anarchy and bloodshed opening up power vacuums for all manner of anti-Western extremist Islamic groups to proliferate with the financial support of our ostensible Saudi, Turkish and Qatari allies.
Hong Kong protesters are planning a 24th straight weekend of pro-democracy rallies, including inside shopping malls across the Chinese-ruled city on Sunday, some of which have started peacefully in recent weeks and descended into violent chaos.
This was an early salvo in what became round after round of ineffectual UN-linked diplomacy, while Syria descended into war and the death toll began its climb toward the current total of more than half a million.
There was, however, no fix for your dad constantly telling you, "Well, actually, the new millennium doesn't start until 2001 because ..."  Before the world descended into a Y2K computer panic, there was the PC-based Melissa Worm panic.
ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen announced on Sunday its first budget since the country descended into armed conflict in 2014, in a sign the Saudi-backed government seeks to get a handle on a chaotic economy as millions face starvation.
What began as a peaceful protest through the centre of the global financial hub descended into violence early on Monday as several hundred protesters clashed with police, who responded with pepper spray before the standoff ended soon after.
BARCELONA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The Spanish government was reluctantly forced to send in national police to stop a referendum on Catalan independence that had descended into farce, the top Spanish official in the northeastern region said on Sunday.
As my Mets descended into a bottomless chasm of losing in the 1970s and early 1980s, my buddies Peter Kurz and Fred Cooper and I trooped up to Yankee Stadium like desert wayfarers in search of an oasis.
One more turning point came in 1988, when Ms. Oliveros and two colleagues — the trombonist, didgeridoo player and composer Stuart Dempster and the vocalist and composer Panaiotis — descended into an extraordinarily resonant disused cistern in Port Townsend, Wash.
In the decades after the end of Reconstruction, as the nation abandoned its black citizens and the South descended into the age of Jim Crow, African-Americans succeeded, against all odds, in acquiring a remarkable amount of land.
The country descended into crisis in the spring of 2015 as the regime responded to an attempted coup and protests against the president's bid for a third term with a brutal crackdown on demonstrators, journalists, and civil society.
Eight people were killed and more than 900 hurt when rallies by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto descended into violence with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets as well as using water canon to quell unrest.
Rather than simply cop to his own cartoon horniness, he descended into a tornado of excuses, eventually claiming he and his adult son were showing his wife some tentacle porn to prove to her that such a genre existed.
Jurors were charged with deliberating whether the 55-year-old former nanny intentionally killed the children in her care — or if she had descended into such a severe state of psychosis that she didn't know what she was doing.
It's the first time Liv has ever descended into such a naked practice totally alone, since the first, and last by all accounts, the time she drank out of the bottle was to commiserate with a client seasons ago.
But even the most experienced negotiator with an unlimited supply of energy and personal credibility will fail when the parties in the dispute view one another with mistrust and the conflict itself has descended into a regional proxy conflict.
Update: June 9, 2015: The young woman who hosted the end-of-school pool party that descended into police violence this weekend has spoken out, and she said that a neighbor's racist remarks led to the display of force.
South Sudan has descended into a worsening cycle of violence since the civil war erupted in 2013 between its Dinka ethnic majority, led by President Salva Kiir, and the Nuer minority aligned with his former vice president, Riek Machar.
BEIRUT, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Lebanon braced for a third day of unrest on Saturday after anti-government protests fuelled by rising fury over an economic crisis erupted across the country and descended into riots on the streets of Beirut.
How fitting that Twitter — a social media platform apparently built for bickering — co-sponsored a political debate on Tuesday night that often descended into an unintelligible screaming match among too many candidates whose differences belie a vast common ground.
On days off, we put Aidan, the baby, on my back, she held the hand of 5-year-old Nick and we descended into Canyon de Chelly, where, for centuries, Navajos farmed, chanted prayers and hid from white invaders.
Austria's two ruling parties descended into squabbling on Monday over how to muddle through until an early election after a video sting felled the leader of the far right and raised questions about whether its democracy had been corrupted.
But the promise of the Arab Spring soon dissipated as Libya and Yemen plunged into chaos, Syria descended into civil war, and the militants of the Islamic State used the resulting chaos to pursue their vision of jihadist Armageddon.
Although he later descended into autocracy, Juan Domingo Perón at his early best embodied what Francis sees as the purpose of statecraft: He created work, integrated the excluded (Perón gave women the vote), and built consensus around core values.
Arrium in April descended into voluntary administration, a precursor to bankruptcy, after creditors rejected a $927-million bailout proposal by a private equity group that would have paid no more than 55 cents on the dollar for their claims.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A weekend forum for presidential candidates descended into chaos Saturday after the group hosting the event gave President Donald Trump its "Bipartisan Justice Award," sparking protests and a potential boycott of the event by Democratic presidential candidates.
City leaders have worked to ease racial tensions in the city since a white nationalist rally in August 2017 descended into violence, with a white nationalist killing a counter-protester and injuring others after he drove into a crowd.
Under George W. Bush America descended into a full-scale culture war: the Republicans put together a coalition of Evangelicals, working-class conservatives and business people and the Democrats responded with a coalition of knowledge workers, ethnic minorities and social liberals.
Arrium in April descended into voluntary administration, a precursor to bankruptcy, after creditors rejected a $927 million bailout proposal by private equity firm GSO Capital Partners that would have paid no more than 55 cents on the dollar for their claims.
The strangely beautiful chaos of a signing ceremony The strangely beautiful chaos of a signing ceremony The streets of Washington descended into chaos today with tear gas, vandalism and at least 217 protesters arrested for demonstrating against President Donald Trump.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Protests flared in Senegal's capital on Thursday and a parliamentary debate descended into pushing and shoving over a change to an election law that critics say will make it impossible for minor candidates to run for president in 2019.
A Black Lives Matter demonstration last summer in Dallas protesting the police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana descended into chaos when a sniper unaffiliated with the protest opened fire on police, killing five officers and injuring nine.
The Syrian pound has fallen to 475 to the dollar on the black market, a 90 percent drop since March 18, 2011, when security forces fired on protesters in the city of Deraa, sparking an uprising which descended into civil war.
That the first woman to have a shot at the White House — an impressive, formidable woman who kept her cool as this reality-show blowhard descended into incoherent blather at three debates — had to suffer this humiliating defeat against this man.
Two of the greatest male dancers of the 20th century come together in Robert Wilson's Letter to a Man, a one-man production in which Mikhail Baryshnikov portrays Vaslav Nijinsky's diary entries as the dancer and choreographer descended into madness.
The Friday the 13th franchise began with another psychological case study, as grieving mother Pamela Voorhees descended into post-traumatic madness and took revenge on the camp counselors her fractured mind believed were responsible for the death of her son, Jason.
The Syrian pound has fallen to 475 to the dollar on the black market, a 90 percent drop since March 18, 2011, when security forces fired on protesters in the city of Deraa, sparking an uprising which descended into civil war.
Just hours after millions descended into the streets for March For Our Lives, the largest anti-gun protest in years on Saturday, actress Millie Bobby Brown took to the Kids' Choice Awards stage wearing a protest piece of her own.
For now, both countries are flexing their muscles, feeding their mutual political frenzies: This week, Huawei has descended into a full-blown crisis following a Trump executive order last week effectively barring U.S. companies from doing business with the Chinese company.
Photo: APEarlier this month, the state of Hawaii descended into a brief if existentially terrifying panic as its Emergency Management Agency dispatched a mass text message warning of an imminent "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT" after an employee pressed the wrong button.
Famous white men, having scaled our country's highest heights and descended into its lowest lows, have proven themselves fully capable of deciding that after years of enjoying the very best of life, they should find out what the worst looks like.
The historical Erich Ludendorff was a brilliant general who fought for victory at any cost, a man who descended into madness and conspiracy, and indeed a was a dyed-in-the-wool Nazi during the early days of Hitler's rise.
Last weekend, bitter feelings from Mr. Sanders's supporters spilled into view at Nevada's state convention, which descended into chaos, prompted death threats against Nevada's Democratic chairwoman and raised the prospect of discord at the national convention in July in Philadelphia.
Frail nations shaped by the victors of World War I have faced challenges of their own — the Arab Spring convulsed North Africa and the Middle East, and Iraq and Syria descended into turmoil, helping give rise to the Islamic State.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson went viral on Twitter this week thanks to a segment cut from his show in which he cursed at a guest as their interview descended into argument — and on Wednesday night, Carlson explained what happened.
" In the area of chemical weapons, his plan said the U.N. Security Council had failed to live up to its responsibilities, and its recent efforts to police chemical weapons in Syria had "descended into a tragic form of political theater.
Op-Ed Contributor IT has been five years since Syria descended into brutal warfare, and whatever happens with the current talks on its political transition, it is difficult to imagine the country returning to its prewar borders as a unified state.
But the thing descended into complete fucking chaos when a fire alarm went off in the building, leading old Saint Nick to rip off his costume and start screaming and cursing at a bunch of terrified children, the Cambridge News reports.
Though Moussa Sissoko laboured admirably to create space for them, they neglected to make anything of it, and the game soon descended into a hit-and-miss lumping match the likes of which suited their opponents down to the ground.
Kavanaugh's nomination spiraled into a partisan brawl almost immediately after Trump announced his name on July 9, but in the closing days of the nomination fight the Senate descended into some of its most intense and partisan brawling in recent memory.
Kathleen Durst's storybook marriage to a wealthy real estate heir had descended into violence and recrimination by 22000, when she suddenly vanished on a rainy winter night from the couple's stone cottage on Lake Truesdale, about 21982 miles northeast of Manhattan.
BARCELONA, Spain — Catalonia's defiant attempt to stage an independence referendum descended into chaos on Sunday, with hundreds injured in clashes with police in one of the gravest tests of Spain's democracy since the end of the Franco dictatorship in the 1970s.
In 1932, the Natural History Museum pulled out of the country as Mongolia descended into Stalinist Communism, executing 30,000 intellectuals and Buddhist leaders, eradicating traditional garb, Mongolian vertical script and Khan as a symbol of national pride — all bourgeois indulgences.
She loved him before he joined the Marines and went to war, before he descended into depression and alcoholism upon his return, before he was convicted on a felony charge for a crime he did not remember through a blackout fog.
She oversaw multiple elections in which there were problems with ballots, most recently and notably the 2000 midterm elections, which descended into what ABC News called a "messy" recount to determine the victors in the state's gubernatorial and Senate elections.
The departure of Mr. Porter, who organized weekly trade policy meetings and coordinated the trade advisers, has helped fuel a chaotic situation that has descended into an all-out war among various trade advisers, people close to the White House said.
Against a backdrop of renewed fears of terrorism, Mayor Bill de Blasio and two of his main challengers clashed on Wednesday in their final pre-election debate that, after a solemn start, descended into frequent cross-talk and pointed attacks.
COPENHAGEN — After an anti-Muslim provocateur publicly desecrated the Quran in Copenhagen, demonstrations against him on Sunday and early Monday descended into violent clashes between protesters, who set about 70 fires in the streets, and the police, who made 23 arrests.
Violence at the airport The Global Times assigned its own reporters to cover the Hong Kong protests, which in recent weeks have descended into running street battles between police armed with tear gas and protesters wearing hardhats and face masks.
The certification comes nearly a month after Iowans caucused on February 3, a process that descended into chaos due to poor planning by the state party, a faulty app that was supposed to calculate results and an overwhelmed call center.
In a world that has descended into chaos, with gasoline prohibitively expensive and water rationing enforced by ruthless police, a group of colorful outcasts participates in a high-stakes cross-country road race, using cars that run on human blood.
Chile's President Sebastian Pinera declared a state of emergency in the capital Santiago early on Saturday, as the city of 6 million descended into chaos amid riots that left a downtown building engulfed in flames and its metro system shuttered.
Yet just three months later, the British government's review of the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA), which ends on Friday, has descended into a bitterly fought battle over language, culture and the meaning of what it is to be a woman.
It was a week in which President Trump was acquitted in his impeachment trial in the Senate and gave his annual State of the Union address, and the results of the Democratic caucuses in Iowa descended into chaos, delays and recrimination.
The rally that descended into violence Saturday was organized by Jason Kessler, a relative newcomer to the white nationalist scene who is well known in Charlottesville, where he has fought against the city's status as a sanctuary city for immigrants.
It was one of the reasons Woodstock was greeted so rapturously that August — and not just by the young people Abbie Hoffman immediately christened "Woodstock Nation": It hadn't descended into "Lord of the Flies," as many people had fully expected.
His life began in material comfort in London, because his father had means, then descended into "rank poverty" during four years in Nigeria, where his mother took him and his siblings after their parents' breakup She left them there with relatives.
The female reproductive system has, after all, evolved to facilitate the upward mobility of sperm in order to fertilize eggs that have descended into the uterus, and the microscopic particles of talcum powder may well keep traveling all the way up.
Activists will march from Victoria Park in the bustling shopping district of Causeway Bay to Chater Road near the heart of the financial hub, the route of similar protests, most of which started out peacefully but later descended into violence.
Kumar had sought the Supreme Court's intervention after a previous hearing in a lower court descended into chaos as lawyers chanting nationalist slogans barged into the compound and threw stones at reporters in a case that has become politically charged.
Denmark: After an anti-Muslim provocateur publicly desecrated the Quran in Copenhagen, demonstrations against him on Sunday and early Monday descended into violent clashes between protesters, who set about 70 fires in the streets, and the police, who made 23 arrests.
They then noticed that the sea appeared to be churning before the scene descended into utter fucking madness, per the Times:Hovering 50 feet above the churn was an aircraft of some kind—whitish—that was around 40 feet long and oval in shape.
After a relatively strong start to the final debate of the 2016 campaign, Trump once again descended into unhinged conspiracy mongering, refusing to say if he would accept the outcome of the presidential election next month, an unprecedented rejection of American political norms.
South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, descended into a two-year civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused his vice president, Riek Machar, who is an ethnic Nuer, of plotting a coup against him.
For his part, Gitlin—who has spent his career exploring the margins of activist and Democratic politics—could not recall such an ideologically wide open contest on the left, including the notoriously contentious Democratic primary of 1968 that descended into riots in Chicago.
Throughout two terms in office, he will implement his infamous "broken windows" policing initiative of taking a zero tolerance to crime that drags the city out of the darkness it had descended into, scrubbing it down to a gleaming—in places sterile—shine.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's parliament descended into chaos on Thursday, with lawmakers dragged out by security guards for heckling leader Carrie Lam as they demanded an inquiry into a brutal attack on a prominent human rights activist ahead of a major rally.
Over the weekend, a Pikachu dance party at the Pokémon World Festival—a seemingly joyous event in Songdo, South Korea—descended into a nightmare when one particularly gifted Pikachu was dragged off the stage by a squadron of security guards, the Verge reports.
Fyre Festival, a music festival in the Bahamas organized by Ja Rule's Fyre Media company, descended into chaos on Thursday after headlining acts cancelled appearances, and attendees arrived to find few of the luxury amenities they had paid up to $303,000 for.
What started out as a bunch of journalists nursing their hangover by coming up with an indie rebrand of a decades old genre, descended into Britain's teenagers crawling to sixth form in primary-colored skinny jeans and glow stick juice in their hair.
HONG KONG, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Hong Kong protesters are planning a 24th straight weekend of pro-democracy rallies, including inside shopping malls across the Chinese-ruled city on Sunday, some of which have started peacefully in recent weeks and descended into violent chaos.
But I thought, too, of Vaslav Nijinsky, who turned that poem into a much more famous ballet of the same name and wrote a book, the Diary of Vaslav Nijinksy, composed over a period of six weeks as he descended into psychosis.
The creator and host of "A Prairie Home Companion" had for four decades gently skewered their baby-boomer sensibilities with fake ads for rhubarb pie and stories about family life that descended into jokes about plagues of rats and apocalyptic climate change.
So convoluted are the billionaire wars that on Friday, the Democratic primary descended into multibillionaire sniping: Mr. Steyer, seeking to distinguish himself from his would-be rival, called on Mr. Bloomberg to either support a wealth tax or sit out the primary.
An intelligence officer and historian, Rayburn published a 2014 book, "Iraq After America," which is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how Iraq descended into chaos in the years after the American troop withdrawal at the end of 2011.
In Ginnie Springs, they used their last gold feathers to rent diving gear and then descended into a cavern whose transparent water had not yet been dimmed by the runoff of agricultural fertilizers, which exacerbated the red tide that closed beaches this summer.
The refugees are part of 2.3 million who have fled South Sudan since 2013 when it descended into a civil war, just two years after gaining independence from Sudan, sparked by a feud between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar.
You don't have to look far to see we've descended into the Anthropocene, a period dominated by human impacts on this planet—our moving of mountains and waterways, our corruption of the climate, the traces of nuclear material in the geological record.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators who threw plastic bottles on Wednesday as protests against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial descended into violent chaos.
That match descended into chaos when a drone carrying a nationalist Albanian flag hovered over the field; when a Serbian player pulled it to the ground, the reaction sparked fighting on the field between not only the teams and but pitch-invading fans.
As Greece descended into a depression a decade ago in the wake of the global financial crisis — an event that posed an existential crisis for the euro — European leaders frequently prolonged the danger by failing to agree on an effective rescue package.
On both counts, Mr. Nunes appears to have succeeded: The House inquiry into Russian meddling that he is leading has descended into a sideshow since he disclosed the information, and the administration has portrayed his information as vindicating the president's wiretapping claims.
The region's defiance in staging the referendum descended into chaos, with hundreds injured in clashes with the police, according to the Catalan authorities, in one of the gravest tests of Spain's democracy since the end of the Franco dictatorship in the 2.33s.
The investigation had descended into a partisan sideshow in the two weeks since Mr. Nunes told reporters that Trump associates had been swept up in surveillance of foreign officials by American spy agencies during the transition, citing intelligence reports that were classified.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Richard Fuld, the former chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, is not liable to onetime employees who suffered millions of dollars in losses in company stock as the bank descended into bankruptcy, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Mike Moritz, a top partner at Silicon Valley's most successful venture capital firm, says that the local tech culture has descended into "soul-sapping discussions" about "the inequity of life," and compared it unfavorably with the work ethic in the Chinese tech scene.
It was this week in 1969 that the Bay Area concert headlined by the Rolling Stones descended into mayhem as Hells Angels beat dozens of concertgoers and, in one case, stabbed an 18-year-old to death within 20 feet of the stage.
Romney, a man who will likely be remembered by history as a coward who wouldn't stand up to President Donald Trump as the country descended into an authoritarian dystopia, won his Senate seat in a landslide and isn't up for reelection until 2024.
Designed as a public comfort station as part of the library, which opened in 1911, the bathroom was closed in later decades as the park descended into a blighted eyesore, a place best avoided that was overrun with drug dealers and criminals.
Rory Stewart, who challenged Boris Johnson for leadership of the U.K.'s Conservative Party over the summer only to see Johnson expel him from the party this month, says British politics have descended into an unrecognizable state in which ends justify any means.
The march—now known as the Battle of Trenton in far-right circles—descended into chaos when Antifa-style activists showed up, a preview of the violent clashes that would come to define the resurgence of the white nationalist movement in America.
Through thick and thin, Ashanti sticks by Ja Rule's side, and that was especially true this past April when so-called lavish music festival Fyre Festival — the rapper was one of many organizers — in the Bahamas descended into disaster before it had even begun.
It's 20 days into the government shutdown, and the United States hasn't descended into the kind of lawless chaos where Imperator Furiosa speeds across the sand in her War Rig, but it's safe to say that lot of things are not ideal right now.
By all accounts the situation was already long gone and things rapidly descended into a tidal wave of violent machismo resulting in multiple sexual assaults, the tower MoreMusic were broadcasting from being trashed, and 10,000 people requiring medical treatment over the course of the festival.
The Canadian actor rocked what looked to be an amused smirk as the ceremony descended into chaos, with Jimmy Kimmel, Warren Beatty, La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz, and a sheepish PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant struggled to explain that, whoops, Moonlight had actually claimed the top prize.
"In 2047, if it returns to China, real Hong Kongers will leave and emigrate from Hong Kong," said Ah Lung, speaking in a small apartment in the Sham Shui Po neighborhood as he prepared for a night of protests that quickly descended into violence.
The debate on Wednesday evening, which at times descended into a slugging match between the "hate-filled liar" and the "smirking banker," was the last major event before the country votes for the final time on Sunday to decide who will become president of France.
Police made dozens of arrests and protesters destroyed at least two police vans as what started as a peaceful but unauthorized demonstration, lacking clear leadership and largely promoted on social media, descended into violence when people, many masked or hooded, tried to breach police lines.
As day descended into night, it was the bucket list set's turn, as guests who paid more than $20140,21865 for the real-life fantasy of swimming in the Neptune Pool plunged into 26,23 gallons of frigid nirvana designed for the publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst.
I can still remember the slippery grey marble tiles, the black vinyl stools, the benches surrounding the dance floor, and the narrow staircase that descended into the club's dark and cold basement, which at the time, felt like a metaphor for coming out in Romania.
One meeting with a hard-left French labor leader, Philippe Martinez, head of the C.G.T. union, descended into a tense back-and-forth over concerns the government was weakening labor rights, according to Ms. Pénicaud, but ultimately resulted in an agreement over gender workplace issues.
The desire to exploit Bougainville's mineral riches will be tempered by the complexities of re-building a mining sector in a region that descended into civil war over minerals, said Paul Barker, executive director of Port Moresby-based think tank the Institute of National Affairs.
Somalia GDP: $6.2 billion Population: 14.3 million Amount receiving in US aid: $8003 million Number of people with TPS: About 500 TPS designation: September 1991 Somalia was designated for TPS after the country descended into civil war after dictator Siad Barre's ouster in 1991.
In December 2013, a feud between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar quickly descended into a conflict that has fractured the country, killed tens of thousands of people and decimated what was already one of the world's least developed nations.
When the silo was operational, personnel on duty descended into the control room through the access portal and into the entrapment area, where they had to confirm their clearance to access the site using a code spoken through a telephone like the one below.
President Trump will unveil his long-awaited strategy for Afghanistan in a prime-time address on Monday night from Fort Myer, Va. Trump wrestled for months with how to move forward with the 2202-year-old war that top generals say has descended into stalemate.
Had a White House official not had that "discussion" with acting Secretary Duke, it seems, 5,000 people would now have six more months to prepare their return to Nicaragua (a country that's since descended into serious civil unrest) or try to make plans to flee elsewhere.
The retail group's statement came after a relatively peaceful rally descended into chaos late on Sunday, when protesters in a shopping mall that houses some of the world's largest luxury brands threw umbrellas and plastic bottles at police who retaliated by firing pepper spray and swinging batons.
The retail group's statement came after a relatively peaceful rally descended into chaos late on Sunday, when protesters in a shopping mall housing some of the world's largest luxury brands threw umbrellas and plastic bottles at police who retaliated by firing pepper spray and swinging batons.
China's official news agency Xinhua has been particularly critical of the saga, saying in an editorial column on Tuesday that the confrontation between Vanke management and major shareholders had descended into "irrational wilfulness" that was hurting the company's growth, its employees as well as returns for shareholders.
BERLIN — A day after publishing the first photos from chaotic New Year's Eve celebrations that descended into mass sexual attacks and robberies, the police in Cologne on Wednesday announced the detention of two men suspected of committing some of more than 1,000 assaults reported from that night.
Occasionally bands would play sweaty, impromptu shows (The Black Lips), and book groups sometimes descended into love life story swapping sessions, but it was also a space where, before the 2014 People's Climate March, likeminded sorts gathered to paint protest signs before joining the walk en masse.
NEWARK — The low-profile governor's race in New Jersey shed its sleepy veneer on Tuesday night as the first general election debate quickly descended into an hourlong rumpus that was both acerbic and wonkish with the two candidates repeatedly lacing into each other's positions and personal background.
But when the 30-year-old wooden cars rumbled across Brooklyn Bridge, over the Fulton Street El and finally descended into the open cut adjoining Prospect Park, there was nothing but pitch blackness; the car in the front did not have headlights to illuminate the tunnel ahead.
Tom Edwards, the BBC's transport correspondent, wrote on the broadcaster's website, "This shambles is an embarrassing mess for the capital and it has already descended into finger pointing and a blame game over who is culpable for wasting 46.4 million pounds of public money" (about $60 million).
In 2002, during the final weeks before the Wilpon family took full control of the team from their original partner, Nelson Doubleday, the deal descended into a legal dispute, with each side accusing the other of bad faith and changing apparently settled terms of the deal.
Every day for the past 20 years, Lyudmil Kutev has lumbered three stories down the crumbling concrete steps of his Sofia apartment, descended into a basement Cold War bunker packed floor to ceiling with shoes, and swung open a rusty window panel just inches from the sidewalk.
If I had told him what that white boy said to me in the restroom, Pappy — as we called my father, in a nod to his Southern roots — would have descended into an indescribable fury, the memory of which can tense me up to this day.
It was here that the 220 contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama descended into a fight about slumlords, that Newt Gingrich blew up at a question about infidelity, that Donald Trump was booed so lustily that he accused the audience of being stuffed with lobbyists.
But as Unite the Right descended into violence and murder in Charlottesville, the subsequent legal fallout and the massive backlash by the public suggested to many in the movement that, in fact, it wasn't prepared to emerge from the confines of the dark corners of the internet.
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And on the eve of his meeting with Putin, who has cracked down on the free press, Trump unleashed a series of attacks on the media as Air Force One descended into Helsinki, complaining that Democrats and the press were unlikely to give him credit for any summit accomplishments.
But as Baghdad descended into violence and chaos, and American abuses rose to the surface, he began mobilizing his neighborhood against the occupation, first as part of the Mahdi army, an insurgency led by popular Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, and later its splinter group, Asaib Ahl Al-Haq.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - From excitement to embarrassment to full-on rage, Iowa Democrats who took part in the first of the state-by-state nominating contests in this year's U.S. presidential race ran the gamut of emotions as their quadrennial moment in the spotlight descended into chaos.
Less than two months after their "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, descended into racist violence that left one anti-racist protester dead, white nationalists and alt-right activists once again arrived in the city for a torch-lit, 10-minute demonstration at 7:30 pm on Saturday.
At several points throughout the episode, the debate descended into an indecipherable cacophony, with the women yelling over one another about Corinne's naps, Taylor's naps, when it's appropriate to take a nap, when it's not, and whether or not Abraham Lincoln and Michael Jordan should be considered notorious nappers.
On a bitterly cold day in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, in March 2012, two years before Ukraine descended into crisis, a team of Americans and Ukrainians packed the last shipment of highly enriched uranium into railway cars, ridding the country of more than 500 pounds of nuclear fuel.
Many of the protests descended into violent clashes with the police, often involving dozens of young people concealing their faces using scarves, balaclavas, and ski masks as they squared off with cops outside the Gare de Lyon train station or hurled bottles at officers on Avenue des Gobelins.
Late Tuesday morning, as residents along the length of the Cape Fear River took stock of the damage and debated whether to leave before the flooding would get worse, a bright orange Coast Guard helicopter circled a nearby neighborhood in Rocky Point, N.C., and descended into a field.
Lewandowski, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, was the final witness in the yearlong House investigation that descended into vitriol and back-biting -- ultimately resulting in two separate partisan reports that will leave the American public no closer to learning how the Russians interfered in the 2016 elections.
HONG KONG — Black-clad protesters hurled gasoline bombs at government offices in central Hong Kong on Sunday, as a day that began with a peaceful march by tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators descended into clouds of tear gas deployed by the police and ugly brawls between civilians.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Congress opened the turbulent Trump era in Washington on Tuesday, as the new Senate moved instantly to begin the repeal of President Obama's signature health care law while the House descended into chaos in an ill-fated attempt to gut an independent congressional ethics office.
And while the Syrian uprising did not start out as a religious battle, it quickly took on sectarian overtones and descended into civil war as Iran provided funds, arms and military advisers to prop up Assad's regime and Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey began sending money and weapons to the rebels.
The event also gave Trump a chance to present himself as commander in chief: Trump descended into the ship's hull on a massive elevator platform used to lift planes and helicopters onto the carrier's runway and was flanked by a group of aides, Navy officers and Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Libya descended into chaos, and a power vacuum ensued after the Qaddafi government collapsed, allowing fighters for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, to gain a significant foothold in the country, and the report suggested that Britain had lost interest in the country after Colonel Qaddafi lost power.
A few days later, on a blustery afternoon a few hours before people started lining up outside to wait for a table, I descended into the restaurant's tiny basement prep kitchen to watch Iacono assemble it, this seemingly simple dish that is so often terrible, that he makes so well.
As the city's subway system has descended into a crisis of delays, aging fleets and decrepit infrastructure, the mayor has been noticeably absent from its trains, opting instead for a caravan of black sport utility vehicles to ferry him from Gracie Mansion to his preferred Y.M.C.A. gym in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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