Sentence examples for a regrettable failure from inspiring English sources

The BBC said that the incident was a "regrettable failure of editorial judgement and compliance processes".

His brand, he says, is "all about lifestyle, fun and aeroplanes a complete Kingfisher experience"—though, owing to a regrettable failure of his powers, he has not yet persuaded the government to let him break India's dry domestic in-flight rules by serving beer on his planes.Mr Mallya inherited the UB group on the death of his father in 1983.

Parliament was unable this week to pick a new government to unite the ethnically divided country, something the most senior Shi'ite cleric on Friday called a "regrettable failure".

(Sarris reversed his opinion upon a second viewing of the film, and declared "2001 is indeed a major work by a major artist". ) John Simon felt it was "a regrettable failure, although not a total one.

Despite a few regrettable failures, the government's $36 billion loan portfolio has suffered losses of just 2 percent; in May, Tesla paid off its $465 million loan nine years ahead of schedule.

True, even the drivel tends to be entertaining, but more awkward are those places where Liszt unexpectedly diverts the course of a fine piece by some "regrettable failure to live up to his own high standards," to use a term beloved by erring politicians.

But the sale of the device on Tuesday was, he said, "a regrettable system failure".

It is rather depressing to observe that the defects of the existing system which he notes in Chapter I find their only relief in a supposed international organization which, in spite of good wishes, must be said to be thus far marked by regrettable failures.

That's a regrettable situation".

"This was a regrettable incident.

That's a regrettable motive.