2006, Michael E. Rose, The Burma Effect, McArthur & Company (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Delaney wrote back, wire-style: “Got yours. Apols but still in debriefs. Best to give you full situationer when clear. Phone may not be secure. Please stand by. Thanks and bests, FD.”
Based upon your article, my concern is that Tim Larkin is trying to achieve an awareness of his style/system and maybe earn a 'quick buck' (apols for the pun) rather than bring people into an ongoing system over a long period of time where they can learn and be indoctrinated not only into a fighting self-defence system but one that works within the realms of reasonable and appropriate force.
2010, Tim Thornton, Death of an Unsigned Band, Jonathan Cape (2010), →ISBN, page 249:
'The first thing I need to do for you cats,' he begins humbly, 'is offer a couple of apologies. First up — rancid behaviour there at the country hoedown. Frustrated, l guess. And also, I'd stopped at a Little Chef near Salisbury for a piss and a line of charlie — affected me badly, as it sometimes does before sundown. Was . . . not . . . good. Won't . . . happen . . . again. Karry, sis, I came on a little strange. l realise this. No contest. Apols, yeah? […]
2011, James Bennett, Television Personalities: Stardom and the Small Screen, Routledge (2011), →ISBN, pages 173-174:
On the other, the self was also confirmed as authentic via a process of interaction, whereby Fry answered and apologised to his critic for the subsequent abuse he received on Twitter – 'Pls accept my apols ... I feel more sheepish than a sheep'.
Also, don't forget to join today's Celebritology discussion at 2 p.m. EST, where I plan to issue "apols" to the readers, and readers are free to yell at me for spending too much money on pillows.
2013, Robert Hudson, The Dazzle, Jonathan Cape (2013), →ISBN, page 68:
Apols if this letter is a disarray, but my head is like a drum made of cymbals.
