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Abature
Definition:
(n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
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Trampled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Trample
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(1) A report released on Wednesday said Prevent was badly flawed , potentially counterproductive and risked trampling on the basic rights of young Muslims.
(2) Labour sources said they also wanted to make sure that the legislation was tightened up so jobseekers' regular rights of appeal, separate to the court of appeal judgment, were not also trampled on by the new law.
(3) The GOP is doing a big favor for Canadian oil interests by trampling the long-established process for making these important environmental decisions.
(4) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
(5) "We have an African proverb: when two elephants fight, the grass gets trampled."
(6) Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian government not to use Barakat’s death “as a pretext for trampling upon human rights”.
(7) "If you want to find out everything that is wrong not only with American but with capitalist culture, it's all in that security guard who got killed on Black Friday" - the man who was trampled to death during the first day of sales at a Long Island branch of Wal-Mart.
(8) The nation faces losing further culturally important works, including Poussin's The Infant Moses trampling Pharaoh's Crown (c1645-6) and a 1641 Van Dyck self-portrait, unless rich benefactors can find £26.5m to save them before temporary export bans run out.
(9) "Right now for all we know because this site is controlled by Russian-backed rebels, right now for all we know bodies remain strewn over the fields of the eastern Ukraine and armed rebels are trampling the site," he said.
(10) Paul argued that the Obama administration had “trampled the constitution” and needed to listen to congressmen such as himself.
(11) They add this appears to be the outcome of a botched late-night drafting process and complete lack of consultation with bloggers, online journalists and social media users, who may now be caught in regulations which trample on grassroots democratic activity and Britain's emerging digital economy.
(12) Egypt's previous worst football incident was in 1974, when 49 people were trampled to death at a match in Cairo.
(13) Garzón was stung by the court's affirmation that he had behaved as if working for a totalitarian regime, fishing indiscriminately for evidence and trampling on defendants' rights by wiretapping jail conversations with defence lawyers.
(14) Trump’s decision to hold a protocol-trampling conversation with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen last Friday and his subsequent Twitter attacks on China have caused consternation in Beijing .
(15) I decided to speak up for those whose rights were being trampled, to actually use the position society gifted me to say something meaningful, something other than sports cliches.
(16) Here is some reaction to the address: Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) Basic line, when it comes down to it: If you trample all over international law, we will too.
(17) But sometimes evasiveness isn't a straightforward matter of wanting to keep out of trouble, or stick up for virtues that are in danger of being trampled.
(18) Zidane had been sent off against Saudi Arabia for trampling on an opponent who, it has been claimed (without confirmation), had aimed racist insults at him.
(19) Some had split open, and ballots had fallen into the mud or the cement floor of the warehouse, where they were being trampled by election workers.
(20) This vast scale has given it an air of an unstoppable behemoth trampling over rivals and across borders.