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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

RICO, which stands for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, targets members of corrupt organizations, allowing the government to try them together for seemingly unrelated crimes.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 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

A Fulton County indictment filed in May 2022 accused Young Thug and 27 other people of conspiring to violate Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023

Influenced by these misrepresentations, which would have been smiled at in later times, but which, in those days, were taken more seriously, the Queen put the fate of Huntly into the hands of Murray.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford