Abridgement, the act of reducing a written work, typically a book, into a shorter form
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Executive summary, a short document or section of a document, produced for business purposes, that summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports, in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it all
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The following article presents a summary of the 1996 football (soccer) season in Paraguay.
The following is a summary of the campaign of Clube Atlético Juventus in 2008, a football club based in São Paulo, São Paulo state, Brazil.
The one-page summary for the Cabinet (to which Sir Frank refers as the “Janet and John bit”) makes the case by comparing similar jobs in industry, namely the directors of BP and IBM.
On the single match summary screen you can set your favourite team and then randomise the other settings.
A summary of Redl's career and its effect on the course of World War I is provided by Dennis Wheatley in his historical novel The Second Seal (1950).
Among the most important of these are Alban Butler's Leben der Väter und Märtyrer (20 vols., Mainz, 1823–26; 2nd ed., 23 vols., 1838–40); a brief summary of this work; Leben der Heiligen Gottes (4 vols., Mainz, 1826—); later, completely revised by J. Holzwarth (2 vols., Mainz, 1854—); 13th ed.
The original record had no liner notes; the 2004 reissue on RCA Records contained extensive liner notes by Rich Kienzle, who provided a song-by-song summary of the album, along with background information on the latter's creation.
He also published translations of the chronicle of the 16th-century Spanish judge Alonso de Zorita in Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico: The Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain and of Fernando Columbus’ The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus.
Quiz moved to Mondays on February 2 and was now preceded by a civilian-defense program (later an American Red Cross program), which along with the news summary required the show itself to decrease to 50 minutes.
Discerning between science and "pseudoscience" was the theme of a book by Karl Popper whose summary was quoted in Daubert: "the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability."
Device fingerprint - A compact summary of software and hardware settings collected from a remote computing device.
A complete summary of the technique is provided in a book by British biologist John Speakman.
--That's not a summary. The claim is not found in the main text, nor is its veracity obvious from it.-->, the gradual supersession of Danish by the Faroese language resulted less from the political activity of the Sjálvstyri than as a result of the extraordinary achievements of the Bible translator Jákup Dahl and Faroese writers such as J.H.O. Djurhuus, Hans Andrias Djurhuus, Heðin Brú, and Jóannes Patursson.
Mass demonstrations had occurred a year earlier when, after two Gaza students at Birzeit University had been shot by Israeli soldiers on campus on December 4, 1986, the Israelis responded with harsh punitive measures, involving summary arrest, detention and systematic beatings of handcuffed Palestinian youths, ex-prisoners and activists, some 250 of whom were detained in four cells inside a converted army camp, known popularly as Ansar 11, outside Gaza city.
The five-number summary provides a concise summary of the distribution of the observations.
Thomas Adolphus Trollope wrote a summary of his biography, which had been extracted were published by a Giuseppe Beraldi in a series called Memorie di religione, di morale, e di letteratura.
However, in 2005 the New York Friars' Club commenced a lawsuit claiming trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, among other claims; in September 2007 the federal district court granted substantial portions of the New York Friars Club's motion for summary judgment, which effectively forced the California club to cease operations under the Friars Club name.
After the fanfare, the compère (today usually Ken Bruce, Aled Jones, Paul Gambaccini, Clare Teal or Russell Davies, but formerly Richard Baker, Jimmy Kingsbury, Robin Boyle, or Brian Kay) gives a summary of the programme, before reciting the slogan of the title.
It has been recognized as a summary of Rosenstock-Huessy's insights into Western culture by such thinkers as, W. H. Auden, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin E. Marty, and Harold J. Berman.
For its storyline we are almost entirely dependent on a summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the Chrestomathy written by an unknown "Proclus" (possibly to be identified with the 2nd century CE grammarian Eutychius Proclus).
It is a summary of responses to the Lineamenta, (an introduction and outline of the subject for discussion at an upcoming General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops), sent to all Episcopal Conferences, Eastern Churches, Departments of the Curia and the Union of Superiors General.
(That judgment received a mixed reception from this House in Czarnikow v Koufos 1969 1 AC 350: Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest, at p 399, found it "a most valuable analysis" but Lord Upjohn, at p 423, described it as a "colourful interpretation" of Hadley v Baxendale and Lord Reid, at pp 388-90, criticised some aspects of it, but not para (4) of Asquith LJ's summary.
Baroness Arlington having 'won her fight' per the summary of her House of Lords speech by Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley, she would need to mount a well-founded petition once again to restore the Earldom of Arlington and Viscountcy of Thetford should she wish to do so, as one of the four co-heirs to those titles.
This manuscript shows that Bulwer was the first person in England to acquire and translate Juan Pablo Bonet's Reducción de las letras y arte para enseñar a hablar a los mudos ("Summary of the letters and the art of teaching speech to the mute") because it contains images cut and pasted directly from Bonet's book as well as commentary on the methods described therein.
and in a contemporary eight-book history, written by a protospatharios Michael and now lost save for a short summary in Theophanes Continuatus, he is acclaimed as "a second Trajan or Belisarius".
Its first broadcasts featured summary coverage of the 1967 Canada Winter Games from Quebec City.
This edition comes bundled with a game setting guidebook with full-color artwork and a DVD, "Megazone 23 INTERNATIONAL PART II" (Region 2) -- the full movie of Part II with the original English dub, using Harmony Gold voice actors, complete with the intro of Part I's alternate (non-canonical) ending with footage used in Robotech: The Movie and a narrated summary of the (canonical) events of Part I.
The following short article and interview by London art critic John Thaxter appeared as part of a brochure for her participation in the Landmark Arts Centre art fair and exhibition in Teddington, Greater London, in June 2009; it was written to provide buyers of her work with a brief career summary.
NPR, Nina Totenberg's summary of Katyal's efforts, on 2006, September 5.
"News and newspaper summary" (Chinese: 新闻和报纸摘要, Pinyin: xīnwén hé bàozhǐ zhāiyào) the China National Radio broadcast morning news program every day, but also the station's oldest, most influential, highest standing broadcasts.
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April 4, 1955, "the Central newspaper summary" (Chinese: 中央报纸摘要, Pinyin: zhōngyāng bàozhǐ zhāiyào) the name of the launch.
After quitting Hanover Beamish devoted much attention to Norse antiquities, and in 1841 published a summary of the researches of Professor Carl Christian Rafn, relative to the discovery of America by the Northmen in the tenth century.
It is a small manuscript of the Gospels in the Vulgate, fragments of the liturgy of the Celtic church, and notes, in the Gaelic script of the 12th century, referring to the charters of the ancient monastery, including a summary of that granted by David I of Scotland.
In summary, the 750th Space Group was to be inactivated and its functions relocated to Falcon AFB, CO.
In Brazil, the drawer may seek damages in Justice if their cheque is cashed in before its due date, according to the jurisprudential orientation of the Superior Court of Justice, as per Summary No. 370 of such court.
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.
This page provides the summary of the R-16 Korean National Championships held in Seoul, Korea.
Their most famous sketch is "Verdenshistorien på 5 minutter" which can be translated to "The history of the world in 5 minutes" The 5 minute long sketch is essentially a summary of the most important events and people through history including Jesus Christ, Charles Darwin, Muhammad, Neil Armstrong, Moses and the vikings.
Sad-dar, a Persian treatise written as a summary of Zoroastrian beliefs (romanized sadda in some works)
In November 2007 the trial judge Edward Rafeedie granted Ampersand summary judgment on its copyright infringement claim, holding that the posting of the draft article was not fair use.
"Summary of the military successes: the subjugation of the Babylonian cities; the rule over all people between the Upper Sea and the Lower Sea; the victories against Elam, in Iran and in Hatti; the humiliation of Urzana of Musasir and Rusa of Urartu; the defeat of Hamath"—paragraph 3.
He is also the author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom (ISBN 0-393-06016-0), one of the first popular summary narratives of the field.
To suppress the mounting resistance by the Slovene Partisans, Mario Roatta adopted draconian measures of summary executions, hostage-taking, reprisals, internments, and the burning of houses and whole villages.
The syntax, morphology, and orthography of Standard French is explained in various works on grammar and style such as the Bescherelle, a reference summary of verb conjugations first compiled in the 19th century by the Bescherelle brothers from France, and Le Bon Usage written in the 20th century by Belgian grammarian Maurice Grevisse.
After Provincial Superior Court a further appeal would go to the Provincial Court of Appeal (e.g. the Court of Appeal of Alberta), and then finally to the Supreme Court of Canada, but as a practical matter very few summary convictions are ever heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.
In the years 1942–1944 Tarnopol Voivodeship was one of the sites of Volhynian genocide spilling from neighboring Wołyń province, with summary massacres of Poles in literally hundreds of Tarnopol villages: i.e. Berezowica Mała (130), Łozowa (120), Ihrowica (90), Płotycza (43), etc.
Peter Antonelli, reviewing the book in SIAM Review, writes that it presents a "beautifully designed 'coffee-table-book'" summary of Lindenmayer's school of thought, explaining how Algorithmic Language Theory, like Noam Chomsky's theory of grammar, can describe how repeated structural units can arrange themselves.
Five half-hour morning programmes (9.30–10am) on BBC1 followed James Cracknell (Olympic rower) and Ben Fogle (television presenter) in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in "Spirit of EDF Energy", a 24-foot rowing boat, with a half-hour summary programme during the evening of the final day on BBC2.
Events inside Ethiopia brought personal tragedy to Warqenah's life: the unsuccessful attempt on Marshal Rodolfo Graziani's life led to reprisals which included the summary execution of Warqenah's sons, Benyam and Yosef.