Sentence examples for apologies back from inspiring English sources

Earlier, Franken had in fact apologized to his accusers, and he didn't take his apologies back now, but he made it plain that they had been issued in the hopes of facilitating a conversation and an investigation that would clear him.

"By the way, I'm taking the apology back," the comedian said on "The View".

Write a custom apology back to everyone who gets in contact to complain; don't just send a generic email blast.

"But now you've taken the apology back aren't you frightened they're going to go after you again now?" co-host Joy Behar asked.

Nunberg also traces the lineage of the term "non-apology" back to J. Edgar Hoover in the early 1970s, who had to issue one (which was then christened, for the first time in print, a "non-apology"), for making the following statement: "You never have to bother about a president being shot by Puerto Ricans or Mexicans.

"But most of all I'm sorry about our mindset because we had the nerve to call this destruction 'progress.'" But after saying sorry for a could-be world, Prince Ea takes his apology back, because, after all, he says that human beings don't have to allow the environment to become that bleak picture.

For at least three separate meanings are in play when it comes to exceptionalism, with a different apology backing each.

The limp, sycophantic, and often absurd non-sequiturs that have spewed from West's mouth and Twitter page around those two jaw-droppingly stupid moments in modern history have led us here, to this cowardly non-apology backed by a TMZ clarification, rifled off on a Tuesday evening.

All very impassioned apologies played back-to-back in the media against very impassioned denials.

Through e-mails, conference calls and discreet meetings, at least four drafts of the American apology went back and forth.

Herman Badillo, chairman of the City University of New York, had an apology thrown back in his face by students after he made off-kilter remarks last year about Mexicans and Dominicans.