Mr. Lish argued that Harper's first stole his work and then altered it by deleting passages, and did so maliciously and for commercial gain.

The dispute was settled when Mr. Manchester agreed to delete or modify several passages that Mrs. Kennedy had found objectionable.

With the letters, I've trimmed them and occasionally deleted passages and names, but otherwise they're pretty much as she wrote them.

Like Zenodotus, Aristarchus did not delete passages that he rejected, but (fortunately for us) preserved them with an annotation indicating his rejection.

Mr. Schaufuss's main modification has been to restore usually deleted passages of the original score by Herman von Lovenskjold, with the aid of a musical consultant, Ole Noerlyng.

In this edition, he changed 'racial hygiene' to 'social hygiene', 'Goebbels' to 'Goethe', and deleted passages dealing with Hitler, selection, inheritance and forced sterilisation.

In extreme cases, interpretive editions have deliberately altered the composer's notes or even deleted entire passages.

Wilde later revised the story for book publication, making substantial alterations, deleting controversial passages, adding new chapters and including an aphoristic Preface which has since become famous in its own right.

Then, at a time when an injunction would have necessitated scrapping the book and starting over to delete passages and reprint the edition, New Era filed suit, Mr. Callagy said.

He reworked, resequenced, or deleted passages, or added themes from other discs to construct finished works.