Sentence examples for abridgement the from inspiring English sources
She recently listened to an abridgement — the only audio version available — of "Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer" and admitted as much to her group.
Mr. Jason, 78, is a classically trained actor who not only recorded the book but did the abridgement of the earlier version and also translated the final volume, which Proust's first English translator, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, left unfinished at his death.
At the time, the president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition wrote that the action amounted to "an unconstitutional abridgement of the freedom of the press".
A naval gentleman" in Shanghai, supplies us with the following abridgement of the official table of honors.
The film released in the United States is an abridgement of the original two-part, four-hour version.
In the second sense, 'discrimination' means the wrongful denial or abridgement of the civil rights of some persons in a context where others enjoy their full set of rights.
The appellate panel's narrow majority said that the obligations to protect were ironclad and irrevocable and that so-called prior restraint on publication and its resulting abridgement of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution was justified by the damage that could be done to the woman if the material were published or broadcast.
Meaning condensation entails an abridgement of the meanings expressed by the informants into themes.
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 book has been reprinted many times, mostly in Bates's own effective abridgement for the second edition, which omitted the more technical descriptions.
If the appeal is to succeed, the plaintiffs must convince the three justices hearing it that under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act the new provisions are unlawful as they would result "in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color".
