Sentence examples for highly regrettable and from inspiring English sources

Norway's ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, Hans Ola Urstad, promptly issued an apology calling the video "highly regrettable" and promised an investigation.

RT's editor in chief, Margarita Simonyan, called Twitter's decision "highly regrettable" and cast it as part of a punitive campaign by the United States government against her own country.

"Under these highly regrettable and entirely avoidable circumstances, hospitals are rightly calling for an end to the uncertainty, and the implementation of the compromise package the Dalton team are recommending".

Those vetoes, as we've said repeatedly, were highly regrettable, and place both Russia and China on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of the Syrian people.

Simon Stevens, the chief executive of the NHS, said he backed the government's expected decision to go ahead with the new contract: "Under these highly regrettable and entirely avoidable circumstances, hospitals are rightly calling for an end to the uncertainty, and the implementation of the compromise package the Dalton team are recommending".

As chairman of the Munich conference, he interviewed Theresa May at the weekend, very deliberately saying to her that Brexit was "highly regrettable" and that "Things would be so much easier if you stayed". May smiled icily at this, like the political hostage she is, as the letter from Jacob Rees-Mogg's deregulatory fanatics this week so cockily confirms.

These are highly regrettable events, and the Venezuelan government has responded by arresting those suspected.

This inconvenient merging of highly regrettable actions and memory loss is another dominant narrative.

There is a pernicious and highly regrettable consequence of spreading so broadly a misunderstanding that the right to a lawyer and silence may depend on citizenship status.

The union president labelled it an "egregious and highly regrettable error".

Stephen Knight (Lib Dem), who proposed the motion, describes as "daft," "baffling," and "highly regrettable" the decision to not have a VIP Day this year.