Prejean stated that Miss California USA officials had pressured her to apologize for her statement and "not talk" about her Christian faith.

Nikolić later apologized for his statement by saying that he would have never said that had he known what would happen.

After two weeks of negative publicity, Allen publicly apologized for his statement and asserted that he in no way intended those words to be offensive.

Mr. Silver said he called Mr. Moore to apologize for his statement at the press conference, but that Mr. Moore was unmoved.

At last, Verdonk apologised for her statement.

Addressing a press conference, Lázár said, "I would like to apologise to Hungary for my ambiguous and misunderstood statement.

On behalf of all other people named Eric, I apologize for his statement.

About 300 people marched on the Indiana University campus tonight, demanding that Bob Knight, the school's basketball coach, apologize publicly for his televised statement on rape and stress.

S6vigny later apologized for his statement about British Guiana and Ecuador with a unique explanation.

Driscoll later apologized for his statement.