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The phrase "apologies for the harm" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing regret for causing damage or distress to someone or something.
Example: "I want to extend my sincerest apologies for the harm caused by my actions during the meeting."
Alternatives: "I regret the harm" or "I'm sorry for the damage."
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Financial officials from the United States, once called "the committee to save the world" after the Asian crisis in the 1990s, now find themselves uttering apologies for the harm caused to the world by the 2008 financial crisis and coating their advice to European nations with the knowing nod of the battle-hardened.
It cost Bob Jones U. $1 million in back taxes to stick with that belief, which it later abandoned amid apologies for the harm.
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I wish Ayers would make a real apology for the harm he did to the antiwar movement and the left.
Hollande visited Algeria last month, offering a qualified apology for the harm France did to the country during its 132-year rule, and calling for greater economic co-operation between the two countries.
Yet Oxfam just reported that of the 700 Afghans they interviewed just 1% received any compensation or apology for the harm done to them.
Closing Guantanamo could be supported by an apology for the harm and misery that thousands of people have gone through; people that hardly can come back to a normal life.
Many of us wonder why that has not happened with the latest round of egregious misconduct by the mortgage brokers, rating agencies, banks, and investment houses.Thus, your apologies for the mind-numbing harm caused by these institutions is ill considered.
Besides the scuffle over the format of the questioning, little new information was learned from the Facebook CEO during his questioning, besides making an apology to the EU for the "harm" caused by the network.
In June, a Christian group that was a leading proponent of conversion therapy disbanded after 37 years, and issued an apology to gays and lesbians for the harm it had caused.
In one study, Edward Tomlinson of John Carroll University and Roy Lewicki of Ohio State University found that participants viewed apologies to be more sincere when they included internal attributions for the harm (for example, "It was my fault") than when the apologies included external attributions ("Market conditions were poor").
If a physician amputates the wrong limb, the only acceptable remedy is monetary compensation for the harm, not an apology.
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