Sentence examples for abridgement for from inspiring English sources

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas, read by Bill Homewood (52hrs unabridged, Naxos, £120) If you are already dismayed by the length and price of this famous story of revenge set in France against a backdrop of turbulent Bonapartist politics, you could cop out and buy the two-CD abridgement for £10.99.

The book has been reprinted many times, mostly in Bates's own effective abridgement for the second edition, which omitted the more technical descriptions.

Letters of his calling for abridgement of colonial rights were published in 1773, further intensifying dislike of him in the colony.

The content of the letters was propagandistically claimed by Massachusetts radical politicians to call for the abridgement of colonial rights, and a duel was fought in England over the matter.

Closer to the spirit of Shakespeare's original, in the view of critics such as Brode, is Leon Garfield's abridgement of the play for S4C's 1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales series.

The proposed "Scripture Lessons" became Trimmer's An Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families which was an anthology of selections from the Bible.

In 2002, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and the United States attorney's office filed separate suits alleging the abridgement of Mrs. Posner's civil rights.

Nor do they support any abridgement of the right to carry guns.

The school claimed that its case was self-consciously not an abridgement of free speech.

As an offering for Shakespeare 400, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo joined forces with actors from Shakespeare's Globe to perform an abridgement of Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Iqbal Khan, with the incidental music Florent Schmitt composed for the 1920 premiere of André Gide's translation of the play.

An hour in, Sadeh7-18 is an abridgement of the theme that elicits much laughter.