Sentence examples for expurgated from inspiring English sources

The American authorities then copied the documents for the other four permanent members, who agreed that the ten rotating members of the council would receive expurgated versions.The reason given for this, and the one helpfully acknowledged by Iraq, was that the documents include material on how to make an atom bomb.

The prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, feels the past should be left well alone, and that the transition to democracy expurgated past sins.

The texts of the first and second (1587) editions were expurgated by order of the Privy Council, and the excisions from the second edition were published separately in 1723.

Marcion therefore established a fixed canon of an edited version of Luke's Gospel and some of the Pauline Letters (expurgated), and no Old Testament at all.

He accepted as authentic all of the Pauline Letters and the Gospel According to Luke (after he had expurgated them of Judaizing elements).

During these dark years the work now generally regarded as the finest post-Revolutionary novel, Mikhail Bulgakov's Master i Margarita (The Master and Margarita), was written "for the drawer" (1928 40); it appeared (expurgated) in Russia only in 1966 67 and unexpurgated in 1973.

One way to expurgate these frustrated dreams and fond notions is round the television.

Alexander Pope undertook to edit Shakespeare in 1725, expurgating his language and "correcting" supposedly infelicitous phrases.

I fear you would have to censor and expurgate with a free wrist movement".

In fact, there had been nothing to expurgate.

It is as if Rockwell had an inner Mr. Hyde whose noirish vision his Dr. Jekyll was always having to expurgate.