Sentence examples for regrettable we from inspiring English sources

It is regrettable, we seem to feel, but it is part of our lives.

While the gate around Jim Morrison's grave and that of Molière was regrettable, we both recognized that some similar protection was necessary for Oscar Wilde's grave site.

"These additional departures, while regrettable, we do not believe will change the conclusion that the firm is poised to have a very good economic year," Mr. Kakolyris said.

"While default is always regrettable, we do not believe that it would have major substantive consequences outside, on a much broader basis," she said on Tuesday night.

The cuts in social spending are regrettable, we are told, but they have to be made because the government cannot have more outgoings than its income, as no sensible household should.

We've all said regrettable things we wish we we could take back.

Anyway, Issa says it's "regrettable" that we are here, and that we wouldn't be here if he got the documents he wants, which we recall are the ones "generated after February 4, 2011".

We consider maternal affection deficit regrettable, but we know it doesn't turn its victims into psychotics.

"It is very regrettable - we have run out of money, it's not that we won't [pay the players], we just can't".

We know that some individuals are unfortunately in this regrettable situation; we just don't have a way to measure how large their numbers are".

"But we have to trust that necessity is the mother of invention and that it will wake us from the somnolence resulting from the easy, irresponsible life we've had in recent years, which has led us to the regrettable situation we are going through today".