In other countries, the Bank notes ruefully, prices and wages tend to follow one another quite closely.

He is also the kind of third baseman, he notes ruefully, who can field but not hit.

And, they noted ruefully, the practice of doing favors for contributors is almost ubiquitous in politics.

Several scholars noted ruefully that the lost artifacts also might have played a role in rebuilding Iraq.

"The government of Bush was the first to recognize the coup," he noted ruefully.

"The consensus forecasts," he ruefully notes, "have been wrong for a year and a half."

"Sometimes it seems a shame," one man ruefully notes, "what the country must suffer for the sake of the nation."

In a preface to the book, he ruefully noted that it might "be the last of its kind - for some time at least."

"I get more stories than work out of mine," Rise ruefully noted.

We aren't making the best time right now, he noted ruefully.