Sentence examples for abridged statement from inspiring English sources

The following is an abridged statement by Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, co-author of the Charter 08 campaign for constitutional reform, given in his trial on 23 December 2009.

Two months later, Prisoner 416, the student that had been in solitary confinement, released this chilling (abridged) statement.

As a citizen, I was disturbed by President Bush's comments regarding the leak of information as well as by his request that the TV networks abridge statements by Osama bin Laden and his aides.

It is true that Bishop's passage was abridged, but no radical statements were lost, and Bishop did not even realize what the word neguinha — misspelled in both versions — meant.

Here is a very lightly abridged version of Theresa May's statement, with headlines inserted to make it easier to read.

The five major television news organizations agreed jointly to abridge future videotaped statements.

B6 The War of Words NETWORKS MAKE PACT The five major television news organizations reached an unusual agreement to abridge any videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language the government considers inflammatory.

Meighan has claimed that his verbal confession had been significantly abridged by the authorities when it was offered to him in written form: "I read the statement, which did me no end of favours, but it did Jeremy Thorpe no end of favours as well, because it left him completely out of it.

The simple statement in the amendment that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" was portrayed by its opponents as, among other outrageous untruths, making lesbianism mandatory.

(I abridged).

Naxos abridged 2hrs 36mins £10.99.