Sentence examples for merely apologize from inspiring English sources

He didn't merely apologize.

And he decided that he would not merely apologize for his error in having sought to wield his influence on behalf of a generous contributor; he would also try to remake the system that encouraged such transgressions.

A Pentagon official denied this, saying that Mr. Wolfowitz merely apologized for the fact that reports of the seizure came out of Washington before the Spanish authorities could announce them.

I didn't think it was effective merely to apologize for what others failed to do.

But rather than apologize, Facebook has implied to ReadWriteWeb that users are merely confused.

JERUSALEM -- Officials from Israel and Turkey said on Friday that their governments were working on an agreement to end the hemorrhaging of their relationship but were stuck on several issues, including whether Israel must apologize -- or merely express regret -- for the killings of nine Turks during a flotilla raid in May.

Pressed on whether ABC was apologizing merely because the report was wrong, or also because the information about a Tea Party membership was irrelevant to the examination of the event, Mr. Sherwood first said he would not address that issue because the question was hypothetical.

Asked if he felt the need to apologize to Boylen, Rondo merely said he and Boylen had talked.

The world is cursed because people do not apologize for their sins or crimes or merely their cowardice, but it's even more cursed because people apologize much too much — they use their regrets as a way of not really probing what they have done, as permission to persevere in their blindness, absolving themselves without having atoned or understood.

The world is cursed because people do not apologize for their sins or crimes or merely their cowardice, but it's even more cursed because people apologize much too much they use their regrets as a way of not really probing what they have done, as permission to persevere in their blindness, absolving themselves without having atoned or understood.

But I ask, 'How can you apologize for killing people?' Had it been the Prime Minister's house, would it have been enough merely to apologize?