As Robert was transferred to various posts, "he found virtual parliamentary anarchy" since members from around the country "had differing ideas of correct procedure."

In 1017 they arrived in the Mezzogiorno, which was in a state of virtual anarchy.

Everyone - man, woman, child - had been forced to go from comfort and civilization to virtual anarchy.

Food was scarce, Armenian troops were marching through Azerbaijani territory, and contending warlords had reduced the countryside to virtual anarchy.

Invading U.S-led forces were unable to immediately fill the power vacuum caused by the sudden collapse of a highly centralized state authority, resulting in weeks of virtual anarchy.

With China in a state of virtual anarchy in late 1967, Mao had to concede defeat.

The group was finally disbanded in 1969, by which time China had been plunged into virtual anarchy and economic collapse.

During the last two decades of the 18th and first decades of the 19th centuries the Balkan Peninsula dissolved into virtual anarchy.

We're looking at virtual anarchy breaking out.

Widespread looting had led to virtual anarchy in many quarters.