Sentence examples for absolutely regrettable from inspiring English sources

"It's absolutely regrettable," Mr. Prewitt said.

"We are going through scary days and unfortunately what happened at the United Nations is absolutely regrettable," King Abdullah said in a short nationally televised address.

Rear Adm. Greg Smith, an American military spokesman here, said the killings were "absolutely regrettable," but blamed the enemy fighters for engaging American forces while using civilians as a shield.

"It is absolutely regrettable that the United Nations and its implementing partners are not here," said Simon Brooks, chief of mission of the Red Cross in Mazar-i-Sharif, adding that the organization had found that it was possible for its staff to work in northern Afghanistan.

Gen Sir Nicholas Carter told MPs the attacks were "absolutely regrettable".

"Indeed, we have run an extremely tough walking-out policy in conjunction with the Home Office who have helped in all of this, and the upshot of it is that it's absolutely regrettable that this has occurred".

And that, absolutely, is regrettable.

This was at a time when Conservative MPs (and a few Labour ones) could still be found explaining on TV that while apartheid was "regrettable", doing absolutely bugger all about it, plus hailing an umpteen-statelets solution, was the recipe for peace and prosperity.

However, it is a regrettable, but absolutely necessary step while TB increases its vice-like grip on our family farms.

"They're deeply regrettable operational accidents, and they absolutely should not have happened.

He said: "The Transport Minister spoke repeatedly about the regrettable waste of taxpayers' money resulting from this episode, and he's absolutely right.