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Targeting aid resources without adequate awareness of the size of the population involved in illicit crops is capricious and arbitrary.
There is a history of illicit drug use while in hospital which had some associations with the symptoms of his illness.
It is not allowed for more than three to stand together, otherwise it is regarded as an illicit meeting.
There were dark shadows beneath my eyes, the result of too many late nights, plus a combination of illicit drugs and alcohol.
And finally, no group trafficked in more illicit liquor than the bootleggers.
Politically, the most important criminal industries are illicit trading in arms and in drugs.
Hence it is brought to one of 60 illicit processing laboratories dotted around the Khyber Pass.
The current penal code provides for up to two years imprisonment in the case of illicit import and export of transplantable material.
The vehicles were also used to transport illegal goods, such as alcohol and slot machines for illicit gambling.
The joint operation had been aimed at a triad gang faction which was thought to be monopolising the illicit fuel trade.
The city of Taurio is a place of drugs, illicit liquor and vice of all kinds.
Nights out with soup and steak pie, a fair amount of illicit alcohol and a night's dancing for 13 pence a head.
They said the attacks were linked to a turf war between rival western bootleggers over the lucrative illicit alcohol market.
And, it becomes a service of sorts as in the absence of the drink people turn to the illicit killer ones.
Drugs are illegal and illicit because they do incredible harm and no good whatsoever.
If you make it legal and normal, most of them would move onto something else illegal and illicit.
He also admitted to having been in possession of illicit drugs and related utensils.
Raise it for debate in the pub and it's likely to illicit a collective groan, but in boardrooms and dressing rooms it has greater currency.
Every now and then, supply vehicles are sent out to get food, medicine and illicit black market goods.
The prisoners housed in this sub-jail are undertrials mainly serving time for distilling and selling illicit arrack.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Eunuchs are capable of affording illicit pleasure, whilst the male sopranos, or castrati, are often utilized for that purpose.
Very well, the clue which that notice afforded had to do with some illicit traffic.
The romans daventure afford other instances of this courtly love, sometimes illicit, sometimes looking to marriage.
In the absence of toddy, they sometimes manufacture illicit liquor from the flower-buds of the mahua tree.
The least that can be said is, that it invests the sanctimony of marriage with the air of an illicit amour.
The illicit means employed in discriminative underselling are chiefly extortion and deception.
When we read of an illicit religion in connection with Britain, our first thought is, naturally, that druidism is intended.
Willis could appreciate the idea of locating the illicit press in France.
A RIOLEX-wearing fraudster lived in a shabby factory unit with a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom so he could distribute illicit booz eand baccy.
There was no husband for her, only the illicit love of this man.
The black money outflows are mainly credited to tax evasion, crime, corruption and other illicit activities.
The woman confessed she had an illicit relationship with the baby's father and the child was born out of wedlock.
Moreover, even when the use of other illicit drugs declines, this trend may not represent a decline in the harmfulness of these drugs.
The last war but between Britain and Spain sprang from the attempts of the British merchants to prosecute an illicit trade with the Spanish main.
It seemed an illicit way of arriving at information, and even had a vague analogy with listening at a key-hole.
One American they found on the lower reaches of Georgiana who eked an illicit existence by fishing with traps.
Thus the Priory might well ply a lucrative, if illicit, trade.
Transnational criminal organizations from Asia and Africa continued to target Cambodia as a transit country or final destination for illicit drugs.
It was not possible for Paul VI to approve an illicit rite of the Mass.
International efforts have long targeted the illicit diversion of the most common precursors for cocaine and heroin, potassium permanganate and acetic anhydride, respectively.
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