Sentences with phrase «giving opium»
The York team had seen previous work by other researchers that showed that giving an opium poppy a particular RNA molecule led a dramatic boost in S - reticuline.
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Its outside critics have taxed the church with giving opium to the people, and with securing its own position as well as that of its allies by preaching contentment to the poor.
They're happy to donate to these charlatan's, as it gives them their opium high.
Not exact matches
«8 It gives only illusory satisfaction to the oppressed people, and it is in this sense Marx regards religion as opium of the people.
He was a hashish and opium addict who came to hate his habit but could not give it up.
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.
Opium Wars are one of the typical examples given.
It's just as well, anyway, given the fact that the perspicacious Holmes has been the only detective able to connect the dots among a series of recent slayings, including the murders of an Indian cotton tycoon, a Chinese opium trader and an American Steel magnate, as well as some suspicious bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna.
Ghosh gives the reader a veritable feast of characters: Deeti, the strong - willed wife of Ghazipur opium addict, Hukam Singh; Hukam's uncle ruthless Bhyro, a recruiter of migrant labourers; carpenter Zachary Reid, the son of a Baltimore Negro freedwoman and her white master; Burnham, merchant and closet masochist; Jodu, a boatman; Raja Neel Rattan Halder, a debt - ridden zemindar; Serang Ali, leader of the lascar seamen; James Doughty, a pilot for ships entering Culcutta; Kalua, a low - caste ox - cart driver; Paulette Lambert, the feisty orphaned daughter of a French botanist; Baboo Nob Kissin Pander, Burnham's accountant who is a virgin celibate with strong religious beliefs; Captain Chillingworth, engaged for his last sea - voyage; first - mate Jack Crowle, a man with an inferiority complex and a sizeable cruel streak; and Chinese - Indian opium addict, Ah Fatt.
Given that requirement, I'm pretty sure the levels of opium smuggling from Afganistan, the cleanliness of Dan DaSliva's kitchen sink and the number of whores in the Bois de Boulogne have no significant connectivity to any «past climate temperature record» either individually or collectively.