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Example sentences for: opium

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After the Opium Wars, Hankou was carved up into British, French, German, Japanese, and Russian zones of influence.
Earlier this week, the Pakistani paper Dawn ran an editorial about reports that Pakistani poppy growers are planning to recultivate opium on a bigger scale because they haven't received promised compensation for switching to other crops.
This has made for such dramatic historical incidents as the Opium Wars, which broke out when the authorities cracked down on the opium trade here.
To Queen Victoria, Lin addressed a famous letter, pointing out the harm the “poisonous drug” did to China, and asking for an end to the opium trade; his arguments are unanswerable, but the lofty though heartfelt tone of the letter shows how unprepared the Chinese were to negotiate with the West in realistic terms.
His heir, Humayun, preferred opium and astrology to complex State affairs; he was driven out of India into Persia by General Sher Shah, who proved to be a much more able ruler.