Sentence examples for abiding regret from inspiring English sources

"It is a matter of abiding regret that Blair Peach was killed that day".

Liverpool's Jamie Carragher, who is three days away from his last game for the club, said yesterday that his failure to secure a Premier League title with club would remain his abiding regret.

In the book's early pages, he sketches out the basics of a conventionally numbed existence whose most notable features are obsessive sports fandom, an unfortunate tendency to refer to what might be love as being "cunt-gripped", and an abiding regret at kitting out his practice without a private office.

We know of his preference at the bar, yet one of my abiding regrets is that no director, however gargantuan his budget, has had the courage to shape a scene around Bond's predilection for potato salad.

However, it takes no special acuity to see that his memoir is the work of a 60-year-old man with many regrets but an abiding commitment to learn from mistakes and make a positive contribution to the world.

And putting a congressional imprimatur on invading the rights of law-abiding Americans is a mistake that Congress would regret.

Rather he will use his own words to express regret, and concentrate on the model, law-abiding international citizen that Japan has been since.That might be enough for parts of South-East Asia, where Japanese wartime occupation was a prelude to independence from European colonial powers and where attitudes to Japan are relatively benign.

It's clear that he did so with some regret: his work and the people he met were sources of abiding pleasure.

Those words of Daniel's have haunted me ever since, because, through the experiences of a relative who passed up the opportunity for vengeance and lived to regret it, I came to appreciate the terrible personal price that law-abiding citizens pay for leaving vengeance to the state.

That the scheme could destroy the works of man might be a personal regret but remained, in the larger picture I had come to recognize, a matter of abiding indifference.

The 1.25m, mostly law-abiding, inhabitants of Iraq's second city do not lament the fall of Saddam Hussein, but they do regret the passing of a time when the streets were safe.The British, who took Basra on April 4th, are ill-equipped and disinclined to fill the gap left by the 16,000 police who used to keep order in the city and the surrounding countryside.