Sentence examples for a statement of contrition from inspiring English sources
The mandate is a statement of contrition as well as ambition.
Mr. Strong wrote a statement of contrition that was released by Mr. Spitzer's office yesterday.
When Mr. Barton soon did issue a statement of contrition, Mr. Boehner's office also distributed it, for added effect.
Mr. Spitzer said he had insisted on a statement of contrition by Mr. Strong, rather than a refusal to admit or deny charges, a feature of prior settlements.
A statement of contrition is all the more deserved since politicians can still be found who vow, contrary to evidence painfully given at the Tokyo hearings, that the women and girls some only ten years old locked up and abused in the army's brothels were prostitutes who volunteered their services.When apologising is honourableJapan is not the only country with atrocious stains on its past.
Louis Susman, the current US ambassador to London wrote: "PM Brown, in a one-on-one meeting with the ambassador, proposed a deal: that McKinnon plead guilty, make a statement of contrition, but serve any sentence of incarceration in the UK. Brown cited deep public concern that McKinnon, with his medical condition, would commit suicide or suffer injury if imprisoned in a US facility".
Just before his trial was to begin, he pleaded guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors and offered, to my mind, a weak statement of contrition.
This discussion yields a rare, tepid statement of contrition: "I have since regretted that we regulators never pursued the issue of capital adequacy in a timely manner".
Our finger-wagging Puritanism is in overdrive as infidelity is intimated — and seemingly confirmed in a formal, somewhat elliptical statement of contrition by Mr. Jackson.
