How To Use Fait accompli In A Sentence
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If the idea here is to create a closed acoustic space, then it's a fait accompli.
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First, his candidacy was introduced to the state as a kind of fait accompli, something Granite State voters resent even more than they do those pushy New Yorkers.
A Scion Hits The Streets
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Then I got such a hard time from everyone for not being contactable that it became a fait accompli when Stan gave me his old one.
THE MANANA MAN
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He wants to make insulated homes, clean technologies and connecting infrastructure a fait accompli.
Times, Sunday Times
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The offer may already be a fait accompli: AMP Craig Dunn refers delphically to ` ` ongoing informal discussions '' with the local Axa camp, "culminating in discussions on Friday".
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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It was far from a fait accompli.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because I guarantee you, weasels like nothing better than the law of fait accompli.
Saltzman looking for easy way out on Paulson stadiums? (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Untitled #9 somehow seems to dramatize this process as a kind of struggle, one we are a part of over the course of the ten-minute running time and not a predigested, aestheticist fait accompli.
GreenCine Daily
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You have been told that amalgamation is a "fait accompli" -- that Metro already accounts for 72 per cent of the combined Metro -- municipality spending.
The Megacity Debate
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Thanks to Mr. Boehner, we'll at least have a democratic debate on this subject instead of a backroom fait accompli.
Who's the Extremist Now?
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Not so much a ballot then, as a fait accompli.
The Sun
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Forcing that fait accompli is the only possible solution.
Matthew Yglesias » Remember the Arab Peace Initiatives
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There was something fundamentally weak about her: not a difficult woman to frustrate by a fait accompli.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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Also, we'd decided our best strategy was to present what Ginny called a fait accompli.
Operation Luna
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Their fate is doomed, it is better to come to a fait accompli tactic.
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They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was something fundamentally weak about her: not a difficult woman to frustrate by a fait accompli.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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It's what those cheese eatin 'surrender monkeys call a fait accompli.
Windy City Gridiron
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Without banns or a wedding ceremony, he took her for his wife merely by declaring the deed a fait accompli.
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The Brooklyn Paper, perhaps searching for a new obsession now that its fixation of yore-Atlantic Yards-is a fait accompli, is continuing its crusade to rescue the animals of Prospect Park from a recent spate of lakeside violence, one that has prompted the paper to dub the greensward's body of water "The Lake of Death." the paper reports that the decomposed body of a dog was fished from the murky waters of the Prospect Park Lake, just the latest in a series of dead animals that have washed up on the shores of the normally bucolic lake:
All Stories | The New York Observer
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You got it! approach to the 'prisoner transfer' and just laid the blame at Gordon Brown's feet, basically claiming it was all a fait accompli.
An extreme reaction (Jack Bog's Blog)
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They became increasingly annoyed that they were being presented with a fait accompli.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: INDOCTRI-NATION: FAIT ACCOMPLI
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They insisted yesterday that the decision is not a fait accompli.
Times, Sunday Times
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Party members will not allow Rhodri and co to present a fait accompli which is exactly what happened last time.
A coalition too far
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It is not, of course, a fait accompli.
Mail and Guardian
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ANything in anyone'e plan that addresses hwo to keep pricing down on medical care or is that going to be a perpetual fait accompli?
The senator from Blue Cross (Jack Bog's Blog)
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There was something fundamentally weak about her: not a difficult woman to frustrate by a fait accompli.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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More to the point, I'd be presenting myself with a fait accompli.
THE EXECUTION
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It was what we would call a 'fait accompli'.
The Sun
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She married the man her parents disapproved of and presented them with a fait accompli.
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This constraint would be formidable enough without the second challenge of having assumed office presented with a fait accompli.
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That implementation of course will be a fait accompli, which is my biggest concern.
Dispassionate Liberal
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The policy change was presented to us as a fait accompli, without consultation or discussion.
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And I realized: the unapologetic nature of my musical omnivorousness owes a great deal to Michael Jackson, to the ubiquitous success of Thriller, to the fait accompli integration of MTV, to the demonstration that, even in the hyper-capitalist (and subtly discriminatory) wonderland of the Reagan 80s, sheer audacious talent could refuse to be marginalized.
Archive 2009-06-01
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The offspring may be presented with a fait accompli, or possibly a choice of partner, but it is made clear she has to marry.
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When the other two return, assuming Ferdinand does, Terry's resurrection will be a fait accompli which they either accept or store up as autobiographical cordite for when Don Fabio stands down.
Fabio Capello risks all by giving John Terry his bark back | Paul Hayward
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If we fail to act in a timely fashion, the ethnic cleansing will become a fait accomplis.
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The Bush administration, of course, revealed themselves as master storytellers — setting up heroes and villians and themes and making this war a fait accompli from the moment the buildings began to crumble on 9/11.
Fiction is Stranger Than Truth: Over There and the Narratives of Iraq | PopPolitics.com
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FARZAD: Well, the market is pricing in some manner of rate cut whether it's a half a point or a quarter of a point is kind of fait accompli at this point but you can read the tea leaves either way.
CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2003
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Too often people experience a tick-box 'consultation' on what is really a fait accompli.
Times, Sunday Times
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And it was, largely, fait accompli football.
Times, Sunday Times
