He 'offered no apology for' his bad behavior. [=he didn't say he was sorry for acting badly]
The company issued/delivered an official 'apology' to its customers for its error.
He's a poor/sad 'apology for' a father. [=he's a bad father]
(..) from the comms panel. Yeah, that seems to be the case. Engineering admits that you warned us that this could happen. That's as close to an apology as you're going to get from them. We should have listened to you, Doc. Get working. - Well, ooks like we're going to have to improvise. I'm on it. (..)2013 Gravity