Civil liberties aren't the only liberties that the war on terror has abridged.
If the appeal fails, Mr. Ma cara plans to take his case to the Federal Court on the ground that the Board of Education has abridged his constitutional right of free speech.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances". The question then is, whether this law has abridged the freedom of the press?
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.
Kompridis argues for a richer, comprehensive vision of critical theory, seeing Habermas as having abridged its philosophical concerns and its relation to the tradition of German philosophy.
On campuses, speech codes have abridged the right of free expression to protect the right -- for such it has become -- of certain preferred groups to not be offended.
Early title contenders were "Fiesta: A Novel" (as the book was subsequently known in England), "Two Lie Together," and even "For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow" — a line that, like the winning candidate, comes from Ecclesiastes, and that, it is safe to assume, Hemingway might have abridged further if he'd used it.
Early title contenders were "Fiesta: A Novel" (as the book was subsequently known in England), "Two Lie Together," and even "For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow"—a line that, like the winning candidate, comes from Ecclesiastes, and that, it is safe to assume, Hemingway might have abridged further if he'd used it.
"With mayoral control, the power elite and corporate Cleveland have abridged our right to vote and made it look like we don't know how to educate our children, how to choose school board members to represent our views," said Annaliesa Henley, the wife of a former board member.
But the amendment proposed by Virginia, certainly, would not have abridged the federal government of such an authority.
41 On the other hand there is no objection to complaining of the conduct of the advocates on either side, so long as our complaint follows accepted practice and does not overstep the limits imposed by good manners; I refer to complaints such as that our opponents have abridged, obscured or postponed the discussion of some point, or with deliberate cunning have avoided discussing it at all.
