Sentence examples for the abridgement of from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" has a complicated and diverse geography, but the abridgement of it that came to the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Thursday was like a package tour, down to the pretty landscape photos in the accompanying guidebook, sorry, program.

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.

Justice Stevens testified in favor of a constitutional amendment to reverse the line of Supreme Court cases, beginning with Buckley, which conflated laws regulating unlimited political spending with the abridgement of speech.

A naval gentleman" in Shanghai, supplies us with the following abridgement of the official table of honors.

But the Supreme Court ruled in 1950 that this abridgement of free speech was intended by Congress.

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.

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".

Jefferson Bible, original title The Philosophy of Jesus, abridgement of the New Testament compiled by Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826), who rearranged the text of the Gospels into an account of the life and ministry of Jesus that eschews mention of any supernatural or miraculous elements.