Sentence examples for its narcotics from inspiring English sources

Its narcotics and counterfeiting activities are being squeezed too.

According to Hagel, confronting the problems of Afghanistan requires an understanding of its internal politics, its narcotics trade, and its endemic corruption, as well as a regional diplomatic approach, involving Pakistan, India, and Iran.

No one believed Ovando, who had the number 18 tattooed on the back of his neck, signifying membership in the 18th Street Gang, known in Los Angeles for its narcotics dealings and brutal killings.

But under unrelenting pressure from civil rights leaders and the federal Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, the Whitman administration ultimately acknowledged racial profiling, revamped its narcotics strategy and agreed to let a federal judge monitor the force.

When a single country such as the Netherlands loosens its narcotics laws while its neighbours continue to pursue punitive ones, naturally the country becomes a magnet for wasters, and there goes the neighbourhood.

Mr. Sullivan noted that while New Britain has several detectives in its narcotics unit, many smaller police departments do not have enough personnel or resources to dedicate many officers solely to narcotics.

People in Tijuana, where he makes small, insectlike drones (pilotless aircraft) for civilian use, would probably prefer he used a different metaphor: the city is trying to put its narcotic reputation behind it.

Pliny wrote that the plant 'narce narcissum dictum, non a fabuloso puero' (named narcissus from narce, not from the legendary youth), i.e. that it was named for its narcotic properties ( narkao, "I grow numb" in Greek), not from the legend.

The idea of his 'new journalism' was to dissolve the distinction between writer and subject and Wolfe was so good at the tricks of this total submersion reporting that it was easy to forget that he was as likely to let go of his critical distance as he was to walk down Fifth Avenue in flip-flops; it was this tension that gave his writing its narcotic charge.

It is many times more potent than heroin or morphine in its narcotic effects.

Because of its narcotic effects, the distribution of the drug is controlled by various governmental agencies.