Sentence examples for regrettable feature from inspiring English sources

The lazy conviction that pro-Europeanism is a prerequisite of human decency has been another regrettable feature of the Labour government.

"It is a regrettable feature of British democracy that the committee can use the curtain of parliamentary privilege to produce what is an irresponsible report, immune from the defamation claims that would inevitably follow without this privilege," they said.

Yet, on the available evidence, corruption has always permeated so many fields of human endeavor that it may be not a corruption of anything — but, rather, a regrettable feature of our natural condition.

Bruce Bird, head of Air Foyle's cargo operations, said: "It is a regrettable feature of doing business with companies and individuals of the former Soviet Union that one is never quite sure what they are up to.

Fred Arnold wrote in 1921, "The most regrettable feature in Somerby's work is, that in the absence of any English record, known here to disprove it, so reliable a genealogist as Mr. John O. Austin was led to accept and use it in his dictionary, although neither give any record evidence.

It is a deeply regrettable feature of our current mental health and educational systems that some DSM diagnoses are better than others at getting children and families access to the care and services they so desperately need.

Similarly, what makes agency morally good, one might say, is its responsiveness to what is valuable; it is in no way made worse simply because the options available each contain some regrettable features.

And there was no guarantee - as the mayor never tired of saying - that one of the more immediate and regrettable features of his 2010 "year of cycling" could have been dozens of Barclays-branded bikes being chucked into the Thames.

A recent Unicef report estimated that, over the same period, some 500,000 under-fives had died.At times, American officials have declared that such deaths are a regrettable but necessary feature of the effort to get Mr Hussein to behave.

Given this — and the fact that our chief executive's 2010 compensation target was about 140 times lower than our tax bill — it was regrettable to see Verizon featured in the article.

The regrettable truth is that fully half of the 21,000 feature-length movies produced in this country before 1951, including 90% of all silent films, have been lost, destroyed or deteriorated beyond recognition.