Examples of regretting

• The proportion of women regretting sterilization was classified in terms of the children ever born.

• It is pointless regretting the directions an artist takes.

• While regretting the fact that his research has been cut short, we must be thankful that he at least had time to complete this work, which is a worthy memorial.

• Common symptoms included drinking alone, thinking about cutting down on drinking, having an argument because of drinking, drinking to forget one's troubles, and regretting afterward the things done while drinking.

• One might rather say he deprecated it as being ill-advised and hasty, regretting that it should now be introduced.

• I could forgive any importer in this country regretting at the moment that he did not live under that jurisdiction, rather than under our own.

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

• One cannot help regretting that it is not made better use of.

• If we are agreed on this major theme, we cannot help regretting that we have not seen more definite results.

• So that is not my reason for regretting the tax on tea.

• I profoundly hope that he will not find himself one day regretting that he left it too late to do anything about it.

• But in regretting it we must ask whether it is right to continue this system as it is.

• I join with others in regretting the shortage of time in which we have had to deal with this vast subject.

• I was regretting the circumstances under which we find ourselves discussing it at such a late hour.

• I am not regretting the fact that the speeches have been concerned with prison conditions.