Sentence examples for grudging apology from inspiring English sources

Senior Labour sources suggested the leadership was unimpressed after Livingstone appeared to offer a grudging apology.

And though Mr. Abrams, a lifelong liberal Democrat, was hardly anti-Italian, he could be self-righteous, a trait reinforced by his grudging apology.

SCORECARD: After Mr. Torricelli made a somewhat grudging apology on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday night, his Democratic supporters publicly urged him to offer voters an unqualified mea culpa.

It took the arbitration and conciliation services of Bob Hawke – then the ragingly popular leader of the Australian Council of Trade Unions – to get Sinatra to sign a grudging apology, which finally permitted him to escape the country.

— Fars News Agency (@FNA_Iran) 30 Sep 12 An editor at the Iranian agency, which is close to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said in the long, somewhat grudging apology: "The news item was extracted from the satirical magazine, The Onion, by mistake and it was taken down" from the agency's English-language Web site within two hours.

In the tumultuous few days after Maria Miller had delivered her grudging apology to the House of Commons and before she realised she had no option but to resign as culture secretary, a number of people opined that Cameron was hanging on to her "because she was a woman".

By Japanese standards his apology was grudging, his angle of declension short of the necessary 90 degrees.

Their apology, when it finally came, was grudging.

Their praise was grudging, though.

Stalin again gave grudging support.

But the editor who hired Dorothy Parker and Edmund Wilson to review books, Louise Bogan to review poetry, Lewis Mumford to review architecture, Ring Lardner to review radio and Janet Flanner to review France, while overruling his own staff to publish Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography, needs no scholarly apology -- unless you grudge his missing the point of the Holocaust till Nuremburg.