apologizing

The degree to which making an effort is necessary is not entirely clear, so they have to make a paper trail to that end, even if it means being aggressive and then apologizing afterwards.

So, before continuing this discussion, do you think it would appropriate to start by apologizing to my team?

You have nothing to apologize for—on the contrary, the users making insinuations should be apologizing to you.

There did seem to be too much apologizing for how other people messed up the original idea of C++.

The point brought up on Reddit (but not posted here) in the comments is salient: if she were apologizing to the Reddit community, she would have made a Reddit post.

Also, she spends much of it apologizing for Emacs's extra features, like Snake, and Psychotherapist.

If they're the problem, why is she apologizing to them for doing wrong by them?

I don't think I can really think highly of a country that could do such a thing without apologizing.

If I called somebody a gorilla out of anger, I might end up apologizing to the gorilla.

Just give them credit for taking their lumps, apologizing, and getting religion.

By apologizing, you are taking the blame in the eyes of everyone.

Note how the article shows them apologizing for how the transition was handled, not the firing, which there are still no clear details on.

I particularly enjoyed how he reacted to the social backlash to that line: By apologizing, not editing the article and ending with “I thank you.” Someone mature, on the internet?

Apologizing for a picture that has "gorilla" next to a black person's face isn't about persecution, or gay people, or about any other class of people (as you've somehow made this conversation about); it's about realizing that people in the past were shitty, and we can do better than that.