According to Spigarelli, the crucial
elements of an apology are taking responsibility, explaining what happened, offering to correct the wrong, and resolving the issue before ending the conversation.
For the government, this requires that the views of the stolen generations should be given prominence in determining the key
elements of the apology.
Not exact matches
The decision is expected to cost the company millions in lost sales, but Argenti says a key
element of a good
apology is to show that it involves some sacrifice.
The context
of the recipe wasn't made clear enough in our Fat Friday post, so
apologies about that but I hope you find that fructose
element interesting from a sports performance fueling aspect, more
of which is in the new book.
Accordingly, he elaborates on the example — given by the German government —
of a violent crime already punished in a Member State, for which another Member State provides, in the definition
of the offence, an additional
element based on the motive (e.g. the
apology of Nazism).
He lists the four
elements of an effective
apology (at page 790):
This is why the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation always strongly stated that a formal national
apology, in the light
of our shared history, would be a crucial
element of reconciliation.