influenced

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Influenced by the Chinese Civil War and the much-earlier Warring States period, the party believes that stability comes from control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Influenced by the Sex Pistols, Peters started the band The Toilets, who later changed their name to The Alarm, in Rhyl in 1977.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

Influenced by Audrey Hepburn’s character in the 1953 film “Roman Holiday,” Green envisioned a world where “the princess lived her life in color rather than black-and-white.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

The plan suggests using immigration laws, counterterrorism laws, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a law successfully used against organized crime.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024

Influenced by national feelings Gaelic Scholars have also advanced various other theories, calculated to exhibit the antiquity of their language and race in a favorable point of view.

From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Johnes, Arthur James