accomplished fact

Left with the accomplished fact, there is nothing I can do but follow.

"And it may very well be an accomplished fact by now," Young replied.

In his last speech he told that the Parliament had become an accomplished fact.

"You speak as though it were already an accomplished fact," I said, smiling.

I want to hand him a set of accomplished facts."

Far better that when she does learn I'm taking the case, it's an accomplished fact."

Whatever sacrilege had been involved was now an accomplished fact.

They'd spoken in the past tense, as if it were already an accomplished fact.

She shut her eyes and shivered all over with accomplished fact.

"A campaign against the annexation that has been an accomplished fact for 150 years!"

It is our supper hour, and I'm not the man to fight against accomplished facts.

You can't take a half-formed plan for an accomplished fact.

That is a misfortune, but it's also an accomplished fact.

The thing he had been working toward with high hope when they parted was an accomplished fact now, and a finished failure.

'Scotland in Europe' is not so much a project as an accomplished fact.

He told a flat lie about an accomplished fact; that costs 50 points."

That, they said, would allow them to confront the new administration with a united front and what amounted to an accomplished fact.

If Black intends to present his officers with an accomplished fact, we don't want to let him down."

His betrayal by the boy Deveron would soon be an accomplished fact.

He expects the demerger to be an accomplished fact by the beginning of next June.

The union between the internationalists and the republican bourgeois became an accomplished fact.

He could only accept the accomplished fact because the evidence was visible on the viewscreen.

Rod let the accomplished fact stand; two girls drifted in separately that day.

Am I right in believing that energy conversion is not yet an accomplished fact?"

The core of the revolution, in the Kemalist sense, was an accomplished fact.