fait accompli

Thus the decision is by no means a fait accompli.

We were presented with a fait accompli against our will.

If we move quickly, the project will be a fait accompli.

But the result of the military campaign against Iraq is taken as a fait accompli.

Exactly what kind of fait accompli have you in mind?

I think it would have given the message of a fait accompli.

"So I decided to present my colleagues with a fait accompli."

"They will come back with a fait accompli," the source said.

"We will not present anyone with a fait accompli," he said.

We cannot then allow one side to create a fait accompli.

However this should be seen as an opportunity, rather than a fait accompli.

We would have what the diplomats call a fait accompli.

"This was not a fait accompli by any means," he said.

Usually science is presented as a fait accompli, in a perfect state.

Changing those principles is to present them with a fait accompli.

The attack is a fait accompli, he said; nothing can be done about it.

Now he was ready to discover what he'd done, to view the fait accompli.

He wanted them to see a fait accompli, not an operation in progress.

Far better to present the fait accompli to him after the maid was dead.

A business strategy is a secret until it becomes a fait accompli.

But we're supposed to accept those future cuts as a fait accompli.

Most dam opponents had considered the plan a fait accompli.

The next day they presented both sets of parents with a fait accompli.

"We will not accept a fait accompli, no matter from which quarter it comes."

The first is to refuse to accept a fait accompli in Iraq.