Sentence examples for regretted past from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gates said in the article that he regretted past injustices in the American-Pakistan relationship that he himself has been part of since the late 1980s, when he was No. 2 at the C.I.A.

But it could not know that, on that day, Napoleon was thinking about the Battle of Borodino, which took place on 7 September 1812: as Tallis argues, tensed time exhibits both an imagined future and a regretted past.

Has he regretted past mistakes?

But some Republicans are regretting past anti-government rhetoric and second-guessing the decision to turn the debt-limit vote into the defining showdown.

Lawyers for Mr. Farrakhan, 67, the Chicago-based head of the Nation of Islam, have argued that he now regrets past anti-Semitic remarks and wants to give Britons a message on "self-reliance, dignity and discipline".

"Life insurers [now] say they regret past deals that might have involved buying [corporate] bonds in exchange for 1,000 new life insurance contracts," says Masaru Kakutani, representative director of Moody's Japan.

There is no point, though, as somebody already said, in regretting past actions.

You sense she regretted her past candidness; that she felt it had come to define her.

Yusuf Qaradawi, a popular television preacher who speaks for the Muslim Brotherhood, said he regretted his past efforts at reconciliation with Shias.

Credit Suisse said in a statement it deeply regretted the past misconduct.

The bank said in a statement it deeply regretted the past misconduct.