Sentence examples for in a regrettable from inspiring English sources

In a regrettable decision last year, the Supreme Court granted the Scouts an exemption from anti-gay discrimination laws.

Last summer, in a regrettable turn, the town passed an ordinance forbidding anyone from looking for work on public property.

I'd been using semi-permanent gels on and off for years, but had never found a system that didn't ultimately leave my nails in a regrettable state.

In a regrettable moment last weekend, Republican lawmakers proudly took to a House balcony to fan the anger of a throng, some of whom spit on Democratic members and shouted racist and homophobic jeers.

The "older-wiser" narrative also exempts Indian Wells's past managers from accountability for their role in a regrettable episode – not least Pasarell, whom the Williams family claims did not offer any real apology on behalf of the tournament.

In a regrettable denouement to the Clinton impeachment drama, a former spokesman for Kenneth Starr has been charged with criminal contempt in an investigation of news leaks stemming from the Monica Lewinsky inquiry.

And I see in him a regrettable tendency that I had as the father of young kids, which was, when feeling inadequate, to err in the direction of buying stuff.

As a consequence, and even if the sensor provides good information in operational use, a regrettable inaccuracy in the collected data prevents the use of such measurements for research purposes.

In fact, despite a regrettable incident involving a traffic cone in my late teens and a few nights out that made me grateful that the camera phone hadn't been invented during my time at university, I've never drunk as much as I did in my eight years as a secondary English teacher.

Nevertheless Labour is unusual as a party because of the historic tendency of some of its members and supporters to think that being in government is a regrettable diversion from having socialist values, a tendency turbo-charged in the modern era by the anger and indignation of social media.

But we have also seen, in the past two years, a regrettable narrowing of our idea of patriotism.