The president of a national breast cancer advocacy group publicly regretted the mammogram that diagnosed her own cancer years ago.

Massu used this opportunity to publicly regret the use of torture, declaring that it could have been avoided.

Though Rushdie publicly regretted "the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam", the fatwa was not revoked.

And at least once he publicly regretted his own part in America's misreading of the situation.

There have lately been people regretting publicly that you have not been more on the scene as a writer.

Both publicly regret the apparently large number of civilian casualties and Croatia's mistreatment of U.N. peacekeepers.

He now publicly regrets his Patriot Act vote.

In the upcoming years, he publicly regretted what happened.

Starr, as noted, asked for the leak investigation to be put under seal, then publicly regretted his inability to discuss a matter under seal.

Today, with obvious reluctance, it gently rebuked him for publicly regretting that Israel missed a chance to kill the Palestinian leader.