"If China did make such a decision, then it is truly regrettable," Noriyuki Shikata, a spokesman for the prime minister, Naoto Kan, told Associated Press.
In my view, this is an invidious and truly regrettable tack.
"We have spent countless hours in confidential talks forging a solution to stop the truly regrettable loss of sand and to protect the beaches in the Monterey Bay," said Lisa Haage, the Coastal Commission's chief of enforcement.
What is truly regrettable, officials said, is that a slower replanting would have kept the modern apartment buildings that surround the park out of view.
Most truly regrettable is that calling President Obama a Muslim seems to be depreciatory sniping, saying that he is untrustworthy.
"A ruling that goes against these agreements has no legitimacy and is truly regrettable".
He called it "truly regrettable".
Any negative reaction to the hostages' plight was truly regrettable.
It is truly regrettable, and I offer my candid apology".
It was a gaudy, exuberant and sometimes raucous movement, and in the wrong hands it perpetrated some truly regrettable food.
What is truly regrettable, though, is that the world has not shown the least interest in what the Saleh regime does with Yemen and its revolutionaries.
