Sentence examples for Abridge it from inspiring English sources

3.2 By submitting a story Entrants agree that the BBC may in its sole discretion edit, adapt or abridge it for the sole purposes of broadcast.

Friends and admirers, concerned that his work would be lost, persuaded him to abridge it for a lavish subscription edition.

The right of contract, it is said, is part of the liberty of the citizen, and to abridge it, as is done in this case, is declared to be beyond the legislative authority of the state.

It rests with congress to say whether, in a given case, any of the people resident in the territory shall participate in the election of its officers or the making of its laws; and it may, therefore, take from them any right of suffrage it may previously have conferred, or at any time modify or abridge it, as it may deem expedient.

It is important that those who care about Internet freedom achieve a measure of conceptual clarity, because those who would abridge it are using definitions for their own ends.

I mean, how could you abridge it?

Inside his head". Rubin said the scale of 1Q84 was all the more extraordinary because when The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was first translated its publishers abridged it, uncertain that there was a market for a Japanese literary novel of that length.

Though the English translation is abridged, it is often overwhelming in its detail and analysis.

Thus, a structure of laws guarantees freedom rather than abridges it.

She was intrigued by the idea of illustrating – and abridging – it, and making it accessible to a younger readership.

A heavy-handed editor mindful of the book's Classic branding might have abridged it down into a sedate, prize-worthy volume void of idiosyncrasy and colour.