Sentence examples for regretfully cannot from inspiring English sources

ERIC EFFRON 1973 I'm representing Marlon Brando, who very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award [because of] the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry.

You, the bride, and her parents all know that it will be preferable for everyone involved if you say that you "regretfully cannot attend," and just send the pizza stone instead.

Presenter Roger Moore was left clutching the best actor prize as Sacheen Littlefeather explained Brando "regretfully cannot accept this very generous award" due to "the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry and on television and in movie reruns".

According to Gomperts, Women on Web now gets emails from women in the United States at least once a day (Women on Web regretfully cannot help them, she says, because it only serves women in countries where abortion is illegal, not those where it is virtually inaccessible for some).

Author's response : Regretfully, I cannot document better the properties of the first replicating entities that emerged more than 3.5 Ga ago.

The Tories' Labour successors have said that, regretfully, this deal cannot be undone.

Banty offered the polite solution for those in Ali's position: Ali calls to regretfully say she cannot come, and states the reason that her baby-sitter reneged on her.

[Page A18.] "I must regretfully say that we cannot proceed with the hearing this afternoon," Judge Parker said.

Regretfully, the data used in this manuscript cannot be shared because they belonged to the China Research Institute of Radio-wave Propagation (China Research Institute of Radio-wave

Thomas C. Fox, the editor of National Catholic Reporter, noted regretfully that a hospital with deep Catholic roots like St . Josephs now cannot celebrate Mass, while airport chapels can.

"We learned this too late to remove the costumes from consideration by the nominators, but feel that we cannot allow the designs to remain in contention this year, and we must regretfully withdraw them from consideration as a nominee in the best costume design of a musical category," according to the statement.