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At the end of the game, amid regret over the loss to mighty Belgium but convinced that the US had played a great game, my new friend said: “We need much more of this.”
An education-only strategy is bound to make all of them regret having been born too soon.
But that was then, and this is now, and the UK’s exit from Europe would be greeted with equal parts regret and concern by its closest ally.
We regret this.
Worse still, ample evidence shows that people may have reason to regret retiring from mentally demanding jobs and embarking on a life of leisure.
Criticism of any major economic-policy change is only natural, but failing to reach agreement on this accord would be a historic mistake – one that Europe will soon regret.
On January 23, the Security Council issued a statement expressing regret that the conduct of “free and fair presidential elections” had not yet been carried out in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1559, which was passed on the eve of Lahoud’s extension.
As Barry Schwartz has pointed out, choices are an opportunity for regret.
Long-standing allies regret that the US, a country they have long admired, is now being steered by a mendacious, untrustworthy diplomatic arsonist.
But, if companies aren’t careful, they will come to regret what they wished for.
One may regret the disappearance of boundaries between private and public life in our global Internet age, but one must adjust to it – and Hollande clearly has not.
I suppose that I belong to an expat generation that has not been educated to consider voting an essential right, if not a duty, and I regret that.
No one recalls any expression of regret by him, which suggests that he persists in such folly – and would use conditionality to turn the clock back on decades of progress in development economics.
A party of “Bregretters” – those who regret Brexit and could push for its reversal – does not exist.
Trump may regret that he issued the executive order reversing his own policy.
Dear Venezuela: We regret that Trump is prolonging the life of your awful government by threatening invasion and giving the leaders a scapegoat for their humanitarian disaster.
Bukharin would soon regret that reasoning.
Others remember Rwanda, where President Bill Clinton later expressed regret for not acting to save innocent lives.
Most extraordinary of all, the two great achievements of the last decades in British diplomacy in Europe, supported by both Labour and Conservative governments – namely, the single market and European enlargement – are now apparently the two things we most regret and want to rid ourselves of.
The truth is that it may be the PA, not Israel, that will come to regret the maneuver.
As Winston Churchill said, the problem with committing political suicide is that you live to regret it.
As I leave the IMF, one regret is that we have not made more progress in securing support for institutional changes needed to promote the better exercise and perception of the political accountability at the IMF.
And yet, how many public figures of McNamara’s importance have ever expressed any regret for their mistakes and follies and crimes?
On August 21, Thailand’s ambassador to India tweeted: “Informally informed with regret that [the] Government of India is not accepting overseas donations for Kerala flood relief.”
But, rather than attempting to delay further progress toward interdependence, the US and the European Union are in the early stages of free-trade negotiations – a move that both sides may come to regret.
Germany will regret not fixing its roof while the sun was still shining.
Instead of delivering fire and fury, Trump reiterated that if Kim “utters one threat in a form of an overt threat … he will truly regret it.
And he will regret it fast.”
But if the West acquiesces to Crimea’s annexation – the second time Russian President Vladimir Putin has stolen territory from a sovereign state, following Russia’s seizure of Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions in 2008 – today’s democratic leaders will surely regret their inaction.
With the US having expressed no regret for its revocation of his visa, Modi is unlikely to go out of his way to befriend the US by seeking a White House visit.
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