The NSW Law Society said it was regrettable the government did not wait for judicial direction on mandatory sentencing.
At UBS's shareholder meeting in Zurich, Dominique Biedermann, director of the Swiss shareholder group Ethos, said it was "regrettable" that UBS did not introduce a ratio linking bonuses to salaries.
In a post-election interview on the NHK television network, Hiromu Nonaka, the Liberal Democratic Party's secretary general, called his party's position "very severe," and said it was "regrettable that we did not win the trust of the people".
Mayor Bloomberg said the arbitration ruling was regrettable because it did not call for additional productivity by the police, something the Bloomberg and Giuliani administrations had sought from every municipal union.
It was regrettable that we did not have adequate data and relevant studies to explain the inconformity, but relatively small sample size, selection bias, and ethnic difference could not be ignored.
"That the justices who replaced them did not do so was regrettable judicial activism and a disappointing departure from the ideal that the court, notwithstanding changes in membership, upholds its prior decisions".
A spokesman for the administrators of the Wedgwood Museum Trust Limited said that it was "regrettable" that the museum did not take "appropriate action to separate the collection itself from the museum's liabilities to the pension plan".
The G-8 leaders implicitly accept that argument, which goes like this: Genocide is regrettable, but don't lose perspective.
When, in the late 1940s, Ingrid Bergman left her husband and family for Roberto Rossellini and bore his child, her films were picketed; when Madonna had Guy Ritchie's child before they were married, she was lionised.All this may be regrettable, but does it really matter?
Facilitating the invocation of the name of Cesar Chavez to smear my organization is regrettable and does little to positively benefit MMTC's reputation.
