Word: regretful
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...biggest mistake, and the one real regret I have - and I may try to fix digitally - is that Pee-wee doesn?t buckle his helmet. I can?t tell you how many parents and kids have commented on that through the years...
...cannot say I regret my act, because that would mean [Materazzi] had the right to say what he did," Zidane nonetheless insisted. "No one has the right to say such things...
...declare that Russia should stop using its oil and gas supplies to keep customer countries [an error occurred while processing this directive] in line, and to complain that Putin's government "has unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of her people." Privately, the other G-8 leaders regret giving Russia the nod four years ago to host this year's gathering. Instead of a carrot to induce improved behavior, the venue has become a spectacular stage for Putin to proclaim his rather different message: Russia is back, and I'm in charge. That's why the St. Petersburg summit...
...whites would refuse to join. Left to choose between acquiescence and no presence in the South, Roosevelt acquiesced and was roundly criticized. W.E.B. DuBois and other black leaders saw Roosevelt as a hypocrite and threw their support to the Democratic nominee, Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey. They would regret it. Southern Democrats were frankly committed to white supremacy. Wilson's Cabinet, dominated by Southerners, soon resegregated the civil service, erasing most of the gains made during the Roosevelt and Taft presidencies...
...Roosevelt realized, he would have to let his son save him. In the end, Roosevelt, Kermit and all but three men would survive to place the river--renamed the Rio Roosevelt--on the map of South America. Roosevelt never fully recovered his health, but he refused any regret. "I am always willing to pay the piper," he once wrote, "when I have had a good dance...