Sentence examples for contrition for having from inspiring English sources

This, of course, followed Rodriguez's previous tour of contrition, for having tested steroid-positive back in 2003.

In confirming the yearlong suspension, a spokesman for the company that created the "American Idol" knockoff expressed contrition for having let the show repeatedly exceed a state-imposed 90-minute limit on talent competitions, which government mandarins have variously described as "vulgar," "manipulative" and "poison for our youth".

Later in the press conference, when a reporter asked, for the third time, about the shifting accounts of Blair's role, Hillary reiterated that they were her trades, despite the fact that "very often he placed them for me," and then fell back on what was apparently her last resort — contrition, not for wrongdoing but for having given insufficient attention to the press's needs.

Pray the Act of Contrition: "O My God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because of Thy Just Punishment: The loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell.

Similarly, the difference between feeling guilty for having lied to one's neighbor and religious contrition would be that the subject would think of his fault as having offended God.

One senses more than a little nervousness in that treatise, especially on a point that also ran through much of the public reaction: the pope expressed contrition for sins Christians had committed in the church's name without ascribing sin to the church itself.

British Christians, for example, have expressed public contrition for slavery (pictured above) and have even considered apologising for scepticism about evolution.

The two mortgage-company executives did show some contrition, as has been the usual procedure for executives or regulators who have faced tough questioning by the commission.

The rest turned into typical Trump bravado, criticizing the Clintons and talking about how much he has learned from the American people on the campaign trail; there is absolutely no appropriate level of contrition for the offenses he has committed.

223709 Sanford Weill Citigroup But the statement of contrition that many had longed for from Citigroup Chairman and Chief Executive Sanford I. Weill Sanford I. Weill never came.

Considering the shameless, bullying way that Armstrong went about his campaign of deceit, it's only logical that he would reject any and all options for contrition that even had a modicum of honesty­ in them.