He did not think, therefore, that the same necessity existed for abridging the duration of parliaments, as before the passing of the reform bill.
During this session an act was passed for "abridging pluralities," and for making better provision for the residence of the clergy.
The stencil is one of the oldest forms of labor-saving contrivance for abridging the labor of writing or drawing.
As it appeared to them, it was but a makeshift, a mechanical method of evading the labor of difficult drawing or of abridgingits drudgery.
The Privy Seal's hand is legible in several acts abridging ecclesiastical privileges, and restoring monks, who had been dead in law, to some part of their rights as human beings.
I thought, after abridging us of all our red letter days, they had done their worst, but I was deceived in the length to which Heads of offices, those true Liberty haters, can go.
The struggle has been successful, by abridging the enormous power of the nobility.
This is possible, but the probability of it is surely too slight to endanger the consequences of abridging a power which seems so generally to have been deemed necessary in every well regulated government.
Congress passed a law abridging the freedom of speech, and the Supreme Court holds that the Courts, in interpreting the Constitution, must bear in mind the law that Congress has passed.
Congress shall make no law abridgingthe freedom of speech," declares the Constitution.
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech," says the Constitution.
The practice, too, ofabridging larger works, particularly histories, and extracting from them, was injurious to the preservation of MSS.
That he should have thought of abridging narratives so proverbially dry and jejune, seems altogether inexplicable.
The arm of the law was also gradually abridging the numbers of those whom I endeavoured to serve, and the hearts of the survivors became gradually more contracted towards all whom they conceived to be concerned with the existing Government.
He also read the standard works on general politics and the science of government, abridging parts of them, according to his usual practice, that he might impress the essential points more deeply on his mind.
I subjoin, also abridging it, another interesting anaesthetic revelation communicated to me in manuscript by a friend in England.
In abridging I have taken the liberty of transposing one passage.
It may be easily believed that neither Vincent of Beauvais, nor his amanuenses, were equal to this work of abridging and transposing their authors.
Purbach made considerable progress in abridging and explaining the text of this translation, which, if ignorant of the original, he must have done by his mathematical knowledge.
Mrs. Bray gives, in addition, the following legends, which we have taken the liberty of abridging a little.
As Mr. Stewart's mode of narrating is not the very best, we have taken the liberty of re-writing and abridging the legends.
More than two years ago the attention of the Post Office authorities was directed towards the means of abridging Sunday labour in the various offices, and inquiries were instituted with this object.
I have received very many Letters of late from my Female Correspondents, most of whom are very angry with me for Abridging their Pleasures, and looking severely upon Things, in themselves, indifferent.
This is abridgingthem of their natural Extent of Power, to put them upon a Level with their Pictures at Kneller's.
It is unjust, because it is abridging the nation of its rights: The general practice of a nation is the rule of propriety, and this practice should at least be consulted in so important a matter, as that of making laws for speaking.
Women never have asked Congress to grant them any new right or privilege, but only to prohibit the States from denying or abridging what is already theirs, as it did in the case of negro men.
As to the observation of his colleague, that the House were abridging the powers of the Executive, it was so far from being the case, they were only reclaiming what had been remitted and disused; and he had no fears that they would abuse it.
The words applicable to our subject are, "Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the People to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
There are only seven publications for which a reporter is constantly in attendance; and these include the London morning papers, from which all others that give debates are under the necessity of copying or abridging them.
Every publication not copying from, or abridging any other, but giving original reports, keeps one of a series of reporters constantly in the gallery of the lords, and another in the commons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abridging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
