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How could the cultivators be persuaded to grow opium? For a variety of reasons, they were unwilling to turn their fields over to poppy.Of course I had to turn every mortal thing out now, and, of course, I could not find it.For this we need to turn to broader meanings of democracy.Similarly, bases are known to turn red litmus paper blue, taste bitter and feel soapy.Interested parties were quick to point out that the great aim of the English was to turn us all into Christians, and they had therefore introduced the cartridge in order to bring this about, since both Mahommedans and Hindus would be defiled by using it.One of the most important tasks in agriculture is to turn the soil and loosen it.Acids are known to turn blue litmus paper into red and liberate dihydrogen on reacting with metals.During high tide the energy of the tides is used to turn the turbine installed in the dam to produce electricity.(He had been lucky to turn the tap the right way; on later occasions he would sometimes screw it up still tighter, chittering with irritation and disappointment at the tap's failure to cooperate.For such a situation to develop people have to organise, communicate, take initiative and display the confidence to turn the situation around.Do you not see rapid industrialisation as a time of progress and modernity? Do you not think that the spread of railways and factories, and construction of high-rise buildings and bridges is a sign of society's development? How have these images developed? And how do we relate to these ideas? Is industrialisation always based on rapid technological development? Can we today continue to glorify continuous mechanisation of all work? What has industrialisation meant to people's lives? To answer such questions we need to turn to the history of industrialisation.