Sentence examples for regrettable attempt from inspiring English sources

"This lawsuit is a regrettable attempt by plaintiff Dan Rather to remain in the public eye, and to settle old scores and perceived slights, based on an array of far-fetched allegations," the network said in a 30-page brief filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Regrettable, despite several attempts no virus isolates could be obtained.

For that regrettable ignorance the following is a small attempt at a remedy.

"It's truly regrettable that such actions can jeopardise any attempt to help the wounded," said Antoine Mbao Bogo, president of the Central African Red Cross.

A representative for Bravo, the channel that broadcasts the show, told the Herald it was attempting to treat the "deeply regrettable incident" accurately and responsibly.

Burzum called upon the Gothic uppercase for most of the '90s albums though Varg Vikernes' most recent release in 2014 was stamped in a regrettable Papyrus font that may have been an attempt to be anti-aesthetic altogether.

From the outset, when they were introduced to Britain by a businessman called Greg Carson, who attempted to market them under the regrettable name Electro Fag, a certain naffness has been hard to shake.

"It wasn't a deliberate attempt to portray Kenya negatively, it is regrettable and we shouldn't have done it.

That Mr. Gibson did not attempt to transcend these divisions may be regrettable, but to condemn "The Passion of the Christ" for its supposed bigotry is to miss its point and to misstate its problems.

In his plurality opinion last week, Chief Justice Roberts called Louisiana's first attempt at executing Francis an "isolated mishap" that "while regrettable, does not suggest cruelty".

Solberg said it was "highly regrettable" that the technology corporation had meddled with her Facebook page – an attempt, she wrote, to "edit our common history".