The darkening mood was embodied by Denmark's decision to seize refugee assets, a move that the UN described as concerning and regrettable.
The audience was originally meant only for the two izinDuna and their interpreter, as Maund could not attend such a meeting as he was a British subject, but Knutsford arranged an exception for Maund when Babayane and Mshete refused to go without him; the Colonial Secretary said that it would be regrettable for all concerned if the embassy were derailed by such a technicality.
It is regrettable that the young man who questioned Howard Halpern concerning his options as a closet homosexual (On Your Own, March 9), has not found peers to whom he can relate.
Welby also made a public intervention concerning the treatment of refugees this year, condemning the government's "regrettable" decision to end a policy to take in vulnerable children from overseas in February.
"This is a regrettable situation for all parties concerned," Mr. Lott said in a statement released by his office.
"It is extremely regrettable, and our country is concerned," a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hatsuhisa Takashima, told reporters today of North Korea's moves to break seals and disable surveillance equipment at three nuclear-related sites in Yongbyon, North Korea.
But Kenneth Connor, president of the Family Research Council, a group concerned with marriage and family issues, called it "regrettable that the academy has succumbed to political correctness and has abandoned substantive research".
As far as the White House is concerned, the fact of a Corzine defeat would be regrettable, but the reverberating effect on the public debate could be truly problematic.
"All job losses are regrettable and we sympathise with those affected, but commercial decisions are a matter for the company concerned," said a DECC spokesman.
Tshepo Mahlangu, spokesman for the commission, said: "Any loss of life is regrettable and if it affects the commission's ability to get to the truth of what happened last year then we have reason to be concerned.
Teachers' leaders said the show's return was disturbing and regrettable, particularly given ongoing concerns about a crisis in young people's mental health.
