Sentences with phrase «become opium»

«I've got to quit my job, leave my wife, move to India and become an opium addict yada yada yada...» «I've got to drop out of college, move to New York and carry on a forbidden and tumultuous lesbian affair with a Japanese novelist twice my age yada yada yada...»

Corruption for decades, has been the most potent allegations political parties use when in opposition to oust incumbent government and has become the opium used to daze voters during elections by politicians.

Religion is the opium of the masses and it is fast becoming the opium of the rich, armed robbers and political looters.

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In the Western world, however, opium has become a narcotic of mere escape, usually used by the rich or those who have abandoned life altogether in order to experience the drug.

religion is the opium of the masses... and the modern day america is so... advanced that more and more people are expressing more... religious inclinations... Especially now with a «socialist» president... my oh my, people become somehow more..

Laudanum (opium dissolved in alcohol) became an addiction.

Primary among these «relationships» is the one between the two men Miss Mattie becomes engaged with in her effort to bring her father's murderer to justice; the «marshall,» Rooster Cogburn, a debouched man, given to tobacco, liquor, and the occasional opium pipe, and the young, ebullient, but rather efficacious Sharp's rifleman, the Texas Ranger.

Ford's technique worked and the image has since become synonymous with the house, and Opium — which was first launched in 1977 — remains one of YSL's best - known scents.

During a recent conference on addiction held in Tehran, Saeed Sefatian, a prominent Iranian official and head of the working group on drug demand reduction in the Council for the Discernment of the Expediency of the State (also known as the Expediency Council), illustrated what could become a potential alternative to Iran's current drug policy — including a move which that could include measures towards legalisation of cannabis and opium.

More often or not they are intoxicated by the opium of power, they become deluded, they lose touch with reality and they are blinded by -LSB-...]

The winemaker Taroemon became responsible for opium production, which started in the spring and produced about 1.27 kg of opium by autumn.

Yirou makes Tianxin become addicted to opium and forces her to take more until she loses consciousness.

Emily Blunt agreed to become the face and ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent's Opium fragrance because fragrances «evoke» so many memories for people.

Shanghai became a center of trade, exporting tea, silk and porcelain and importing opium, and it grew into an important industrial center and trading post, becoming home to thousands of foreigners.

The city became rife with opium dens and brothels.

But this dispersal began in earnest in the 1830s, just before the first Opium War, and the earliest immigrants were from a part of British India (northern Bihar) which became, under the rule of the East India Company, the single most important opium - growing region of the wOpium War, and the earliest immigrants were from a part of British India (northern Bihar) which became, under the rule of the East India Company, the single most important opium - growing region of the wopium - growing region of the world.

The main lane became famed for its opium dens, gambling halls and brothels — it's the capital's original red - light district — but these days it's all about the shopping once more.

While in Quetta, Pakistan in 1974 he shot numerous images of opium dens «that ultimately became some of the most visually exquisite and most carefully crafted photographs in his entire oeuvre.»