Sentence examples for merely apologise from inspiring English sources

The president can apologise to people for the cancellation of their health insurance policies, but he cannot merely apologise to the people for the cancellation of the constitution.

So why not just apologise?

I can only apologise".

"We can only apologise".

Just apologise".

And, in a fairly uninspiring piece of corporate response, it has rolled out the briefest sorry: merely saying "we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused".

In Egypt, the letter drew a cool response from leaders of the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood: how can we accept the pope's apology when he hasn't apologised, merely expressed regret?

This week Mr Wang claimed that Mr Zhang had merely tripped, and that a gangster had forced him at gunpoint to apologise.

Calling for the Rams and NFL to apologise publicly, Roorda said in his statement that he understood the players would be defended as merely exercising their right to free speech.

I apologise.

We apologise.