11.   But the letter fell short of the formal apology requested by the Chinese.

12.   But was this a formal apology?

13.   But, he said, the Xhosa had not understood the distinction between an expression of guilt and a formal apology, which London has declined to offer.

14.   China demanded a formal apology for the incident, in which the Chinese plane crashed and its pilot presumably died.

15.   Clinton has been under some pressure at home to issue a formal apology for slavery, but he stopped well short of such an explicit statement.

16.   China had demanded a formal apology for the incident and also made clear that it wanted the U.S. surveillance flights stopped.

17.   Clinton broke his silence on the Monica Lewinsky scandal to tell the world he had said enough about his mistake and had no plans to make a formal apology.

18.   Delta officials issued a formal apology to passengers for the inconvenience.

19.   Even without issuing a formal apology, government officials have begun taking steps to acknowledge wrongdoing.

20.   Gover then offered a formal apology to American Indians on behalf of the bureau.