Sentence examples for a regrettable problem from inspiring English sources

Roche's chairman and chief executive, Franz Humer, called today's increase in provisions a prudent step toward cleaning up a regrettable problem.

Chouinard, facing 5 to 15 years if convicted, asked to be put on waivers by the Diamondbacks so he could work on "difficult and regrettable problems".

"Surely we must understand his fatigue after working all day to solve regrettable problems".

You do a regrettable disservice by citing a serious problem and not making your readers aware that there have been real and concerted efforts to fix it.

This has provided opportunities for people like Boris Johnson to teasingly suggest that they are being xenophobic and, more importantly, has demonstrated a regrettable readiness to seek easy culprits for complicated problems.

Pointing toward interesting problems and promptly running away is a regrettable tendency of "Better Living Through Criticism".

Some asked if we would ever refer to the fall of the Twin Towers as a "regrettable traffic incident," or to the Boston Marathon bombing as a "fireworks and burning problem".

"We need to start doing some grass-roots intervention with respect to the problem and not greet it every year with 'It's a regrettable development' kind of an attitude," he said.

In facing up to the problems with contemporary South African society, there has been a regrettable and discernible trend towards novels with a "faults on both sides" attitude.

That's a regrettable situation".

"This was a regrettable incident.