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Sentences with abridgment

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  • abridgment of civil rights.
  • Kolker said the bill is an infringement of his constitutional rights and an unfair abridgment of the public's access to the telecommunications grid.
  • A synopsis is an abridgment, an outline or a short presentation of any written work.
  • But opponents file suit, claiming abridgment of First Amendment rights.
  • First Amendment prohibits government abridgment of free speech.
  • And abridgment of texts is now taken to extremes, with episodes from micro- novels being sent as text messages on cell phones.
  • 73 limits as an abridgment of freedom of expression.
  • Abridgment describes a work condensed from a larger work by omitting the less important parts, but keeping the main contents more or less unaltered; an , abstract is a short statement of the basic contents of a book, court record, etc. often used as an index to the original material; , brief, summary both imply a statement of the main points of the matter under consideration [the brief of a legal argument], summary, especially, connoting a recapitulating statement; a synopsis is a condensed, orderly treatment, as of the plot of a novel, that permits a quick general view of the whole; a , digest is a concise, systematic treatment, generally more comprehensive in scope than a synopsis, and, in the case of technical material, often arranged under titles for quick reference; an , epitome is a statement of the essence of a subject in the shortest possible form
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