Sentence examples for regrettable past from inspiring English sources

"To regret everything about the past -- certainly!" The present is no picnic either, what with its habit of turning into the regrettable past.

The modern power elites thrive by forgetting any regrettable past.

It stops America from leaving whatever might be historically regrettable in the past and moving forward.This nation no longer needs and cannot afford black- or Hispanic-only districts, just as it can no longer tolerate white-only constituencies.

As the unorganized protest movement morphs into a more coherent, representative and legitimate National Salvation Council the U.S. has a unique opportunity to put behind it its past regrettable policy missteps and play a far more constructive (and not a tell-tale obstructionist role), in expediting this transition.

The past is unfortunate, regrettable even, but it is past.

America, which in the past has shown a regrettable ambivalence towards military rule in the country, must make it clear that if they do they will get no support from Pakistan's friends.

Any transition to democracy raises expectations that the new regime not only will change the course of a country's future but will rectify the more regrettable parts of a nation's past.

Thus, while the erotic masterpieces of the past must qualify as regrettable anomalies for someone like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche has no trouble at all in giving them a place.

There are some divisions in the Republican party, we've had them in the past … it's very regrettable because our adversary is not each other and we will probably have to go through discussion and debate".

"To me, this is regrettable but perhaps not surprising," given the past 2 decades, says Donald Henderson, who led the worldwide campaign to eradicate smallpox virus in the 1970s.

The farm bill agreed to by a House-Senate conference committee last week is a regrettable reversion to some of the worst policies of the past.