place of disorder

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Having fled “that place of disorder and danger,” first to Pisa, then Florence, by her late 20s Elena has established herself nationally as an important literary figure, a respected intellectual, a political pundit.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2014

Such a place of disorder could not be tolerated in my dominions.

From The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights by Birney, Catherine H.

It became necessary, that order should take the place of disorder; that the authority of one should be substituted for the authority of all.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

Now trusts are an attempt of capital to escape from the tyranny of the market, to eliminate the waste of competition and bring order in the place of disorder by making supply proportionate to demand.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond