Sentence examples for contrite apologies from inspiring English sources

Contrite apologies and offers of penance are effective tools for rebuilding trust.

Ye Zhaoyan, one of several writers who participated and later posted contrite apologies on the Web, said, "I'm deeply repentant of not taking this more seriously".

La France pour la vie (France for Life) abounds with supposedly self-effacing anecdotes and contrite apologies, but many of these are as disingenuous as the photograph.

We have responded quickly to that and issued a contrite apology.

That prompted a contrite apology by the American government, acknowledging that it was at fault.

In a statement that could be taken as a contrite apology, Ottawa praised South Africa for "promoting a tolerant, multiracial society".

Despite his contrite apology on Thursday, and his dismissal of a top aide, do Governor Christie's actions, or inactions, justify an end to his political career?

As the scandal spread to the United States (the F.B.I. is investigating whether News Corp. papers hacked the phones of 9/11 victims, and Les Hinton, the Dow Jones C.E.O. who has worked for Murdoch since he was a fifteen-year-old on the News of Adelaide, resigned hours after Brooks did), Murdoch published an uncharacteristically contrite apology in all of Britain's national newspapers.

Just as revealing is a later bit about the shocking and now infamous joke in which the comedian Tracy Morgan, of "30 Rock," said he would kill his son if he acted gay, a remark that sparked a public backlash and a contrite apology.

England manager Roy Hodgson received a contrite apology from Liverpool on Sunday night after he was denied initial access to his former club's boardroom lounge on the day that he suffered the desperate blow of losing Wayne Rooney for the national side's two make-or-break World Cup qualifiers.

OutKast reached No. 1 on the pop charts in 2001 with Ms. Jackson, in which Andre 3000 offers a contrite apology to the mother of his ex-lover.