For most of the last ten years, Bayer needed to make no apology for being a conglomerate.
So I make no apology for linking Britain to the fastest-growing parts of the world.
And I make no apology for going out there and trying to help win it.
But parents make no apology for shielding their children from what they see as bad influences.
"Like everything else in this G8, the ambitions are big, and I make no apology for that, " he said.
We make no apology for introducing reforms to drive up standards in schools.
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There was also no sign on Tuesday of an accord on another issue at the conference -- African demands that former slave states make a formal apology for some 400 years of human trafficking up to the early 19th century, during which some 12 million people where shipped in chains to the Americas.
But none of Mr Rudd's changes matches the historical resonance of a statement he plans to make on February 13th: a formal apology to Australia's indigenous people for past injustices under European settlement.
Last year he launched a petition on the No 10 website calling on the government to make a posthumous apology to World War II code-breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing for his treatment by the authorities for being gay.
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