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.
"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.
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.
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.
Last year, the list featured just one female name, which would have been regrettable enough even if the beneficiary in question hadn't been child star Dakota Fanning.
The history of video game-to-film adaptations is littered with the rotting corpses of productions featuring half-arsed storylines, C-grade canding andistinctlyctly regrettable absence of directorial vision.
