Wonga responded by suggesting cases highlighted by the Guardian had been regrettable, but rare, examples of unhappy customers: "It is clearly possible to find some people who are unhappy, in distress or we shouldn't have approved".
He gives an example of this regrettable reality.
Here are just a few examples of NBA artists making regrettable music choices despite the fact that none of them were exactly destined to make George Karl's list of favorite rappers.
In his famous essay "Shooting an Elephant," for example, in which he tells of his regrettable shooting of an elephant when he was a policeman in Burma, the ills of colonial rule are distilled in humorous, terrifying miniature.
This is regrettable given the substantial cultural differences between East and West; for example, the strong emphasis on independence in the West as contrasted with Thai persons' acceptance of interdependence.
Finally, several recent studies show an approach to travelers' decision behavior modeling more similar in spirit to a non-regrettable choice setting than to a risk/uncertainty one (see, for example, [49, 50]).
Petro, for example, was signed by the Nets last summer to an instantly regrettable three-year, $10 million contract.
The dozen or so by Mr. Gardner are particularly bad; they're clumsily written and manifest a regrettable politically correct tendency, giving Bond low-tar cigarettes to smoke, for example, and a Saab to drive.
Some authors, for example Douglas [ 5] and DeGrazia [ 29], stress that although such a loss might be regrettable, if it is compensated by an increase of some other good, the loss can be justified.
