Sentence examples for may be regrettable from inspiring English sources

It may be regrettable this happened in a final.

Beatings may be regrettable, but they don't typically turn children into terrorists.

This may be regrettable cultural ignorance, but it means Aslan will stay just a lion to most movie-goers.

An affront to motherhood may be regrettable, but at least it means that a dad gets depicted as doing his share of the parenting.

Any more rude shocks would have left Slovakia looking vulnerable.Slower privatisation, softer policies and fiddlier taxes may be regrettable in a country noted until recently for its radical reforms.

Indeed, some Serbian leaders might welcome such an outcome, since it would show that they had done their utmost to obstruct Kosovo's independence.Independence without Belgrade's consent may be regrettable, but it is better than denying it altogether, since this would only lead to renewed fighting.

That "George Eliot" should prefer the method of publication he now for the second time adopts may or may not be regrettable.

This may or may not be regrettable, but is in some measure unavoidable because it is obviously the more familiar tradition and the ground of the comparativist's views.

That may be the regrettable result of quiet competence not being highly valued at Westminster.

The search for profit, they argue, may be a regrettable necessity in the modern world, a sad fact of life if there is to be any private enterprise.

Sometimes a military effort may be a regrettable necessity in order to defend decent values, but an oft-quoted tradition has the Prophet Muhammad saying after a military victory: "We are coming back from the Lesser Jihad [ie the battle] and returning to the Greater Jihad" - the far more important, difficult and momentous struggle to reform our own society and our own hearts.