Sentence examples for A regrettable fact from inspiring English sources

As with anywhere else in the world, sexual violence is a regrettable fact of life in the Arab region.

And Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, has said he is "appalled" at the violence, calling some of it racially motivated.Kevin Rudd, his Australian counterpart, dismissed race as a motive, and called the violence "just a regrettable fact of urban life".

The government of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi has said that it would be an infringement of free speech to prevent people from holding conferences on controversial subjects, but it has called the Nanjing Massacre a regrettable fact of history.

It is a regrettable fact that many well-educated businessmen in English-speaking countries speak only English.SHEELAGH WILLIAMSBangor, WalesAmtrak off the railsSIR Amtrak's preservation of a 1950s-style system (August 8th) shows that it squanders re-sources to meet political considerations while ignoring legitimate transport needs.

And perhaps this is not a regrettable fact: "At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable" (Walden, XVII).

Along this line, it is a regrettable fact that software development is often discounted in the scientific community.

Not long ago, visible panty lines were an accepted, if regrettable, fact of life -- as were unwhitened teeth or hair without highlights.

How does this regrettable fact justify government oversight of private expression?

Which regrettable fact may also mean that there are more of us thinking for ourselves.

The estimates had been given by highly qualified experts, but the regrettable fact is that wild variations have always characterized the art market.

The regrettable fact is that the policies implemented by Mr Obama are materially indistinguishable from those of George Bush at the end of his second term.