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186 examples of Apology in a sentence

On behalf of the excellent cast and crew of the film, I extend them an apology.
The producers of this show should offer an apology.
Howard deserves an apology from the producers for doing such a thorough hack job of her book.
I think everyone involved in this project owes the audience and the actors a huge apology.
The gags in this sad apology for a film are adolescent in the worst way.
She, predictably, doesn't quite reciprocate and even demands an apology, and her boyfriend reveals himself to be a flaming eunuch in disguise, so what happens next?
Lagarde’s apology was unprecedented, courageous, and wrong.
For these failures, the Fund has never offered any apology, certainly not in the abject manner of Lagarde’s recent statement.
The IMF’s apology was a mistake for two reasons.
This time, he has instructed a committee of historians to reexamine the official apology delivered in 1993 to World War II-era sex slaves held in Japanese military brothels.
It is clear from various recent statements that some of Abe’s closest advisers believe that the apology was not in order, so the committee might well conclude that Japan was never officially involved in prostitution, and that its “sincere remorse” should therefore be withdrawn.
The official apology made in 1993 was prompted by a Japanese historian’s discovery of documents showing that the Imperial Japanese Army had been directly involved in setting up, though not necessarily in running, what were known as “comfort stations.”
This has been officially admitted, so why reopen the ghastly business now, at a time when rescinding the apology would make Japan’s already-strained relations with China and South Korea many times worse?
If Abe and his allies were cosmopolitan in their outlook, with a deep understanding of, or concern for, other countries, the decision to revisit the 1993 apology would indeed be extraordinary.
If the US can behave so badly without apology, Putin’s thinking goes, why should Russia be denied its sphere of influence in, say, Ukraine?
Obama has also issued an apology to the people of Guatemala.
The apology was followed by payment of more than $1 billion to survivors of the camps, accompanied by letters signed by Reagan’s successor, George H.W. Bush.
So Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately demanded an official apology from the Dutch government for ignoring Borodin’s diplomatic immunity.
Add to that the widespread view that the bombs accelerated the end of the war, thereby saving lives, and few Americans would make the case that Japan is owed any apology.
Reagan’s successor, President George H.W. Bush, wrote a letter of apology to internees on December 7, 1991, the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
By far the best-known apology was issued by German Chancellor Willy Brandt in December 1970.
On a visit to a memorial where the Warsaw Ghetto once stood, Brandt – who had actually fought the Nazis – dropped to his knees, his head bowed, in a silent but profound apology on Germany’s behalf.
Brandt’s apology was in no way degrading.
He went on to express “feelings of deep remorse” and offer a “heartfelt apology” to the victims.
Consider an editorial written in March by the Washington Post’s editorial director, Fred Hiatt, in which he makes a very small and limited apology for the newspaper’s coverage and evaluation of the Bush administration.
The apology would have to be straightforward and credible, unlike his recent statement, in which he effectively denied the genocide by referring vaguely to “the events of 1915” and trivialized the Armenians’ suffering by equating it with that of “every other citizen of the Ottoman Empire” at the time.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has called Obama’s apology a “surrender,” while another Republican contender, Rick Santorum, is offended that anyone is suggesting that the US should bear any “blame.”
We demanded an apology for his impugning our paper’s reputation; he accused of us of libel.
Evoking the self-righteous outrage of guochi , three young Chinese males engaged in the following exchange of messages on the internet:Righteous Eagle : The US uttered a few shameful words of apology and our government released 24 pigs....On the surface it appears that the United States apologized to China, but what commitments did the US assume, really?
Indeed, fearful of popular backlash against its decision to release the crew of the US spyplane without securing either a meaningful American apology or adequate financial compensation, China's government quietly shut down several popular internet sites in the weeks following the spy plane incident - including the chatroom that posted the above-cited messages.
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