| For the unique problem of the Eurasian is that the crossing of the racial boundary is a fait accompli. |
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| Despite their rhetorical bluster at the rallies, there is every sign that the unions already regard the new legislation as a fait accompli. |
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| If they have decided to take military action against you it is a fait accompli. |
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| We feel the proposal has been presented as a fait accompli with no other options provided. |
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| It is simply accepted as a fait accompli that the millions who live along the Mekong will suffer time and again from preventable flooding. |
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| Then in September, they say, district officials presented the no-park plan as a veritable fait accompli. |
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| John, however, refuses to accept his currently loveless life as a fait accompli. |
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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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| 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 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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| It looked like the watergas option was a fait accompli with the Stratford Town Board, until a forward-thinking man stepped into the fray. |
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| If the junior colleague has a book in hand or an acceptance letter from the director of the university press, tenure is a fait accompli. |
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| In 1793, the Convention confirmed the fait accompli, and the time of the lords rapidly became a mere folk memory. |
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| They were not prepared to be faced uninformed with a fait accompli that they would be unable to affect or appeal. |
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| What has long been unthinkable in a free society threatens to become not just thinkable, but a fait accompli. |
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| The use of the negotiating period to create a fait accompli would be, and has been, antithetical to the very negotiating process itself. |
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| Militarization of outer space has been a fait accompli since the beginning of the space exploration age. |
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| It often appears that 'consultation' is merely an exercise to endorse a fait accompli. |
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| The public must be engaged in the measures taken rather than being presented with them as a fait accompli. |
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| The politics of presenting a fait accompli is not acceptable, as it does not leave room for a negotiated settlement. |
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| We need to stop trying to force events and pursuing a fait accompli policy. |
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| When these decisions are then brought to the national level, parliaments have very limited leeway and usually are placed before a fait accompli. |
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| Benoit's speech made it clear that the plans for the airport development is not a fait accompli. |
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| Pursuing the issue by force in order to create a fait accompli is theologically reckless and a political recipe for disaster. |
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| That does not make a war with Iran a fait accompli, but it does bring the possibility ever closer. |
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| So, Hands suing Citigroup over the deal was perhaps more a fait accompli than a surprise. |
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| But for Moore, the most difficult and also most satisfying fait accompli was her giblet gravy. |
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| At the eleventh hour, I realized that something that all the commentators had referred to as if it were a fait accompli was actually very much up in the air. |
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| Indeed, many of the staff and students feel that they haven't been consulted adequately in an appraisal that has been presented as a fait accompli. |
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| At that stage it was still far from a fait accompli, given United's impressive home record which has seen them unbeaten on their own turf since November. |
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| However, he said that he had no regrets about bringing the relevant information into the public domain before it was presented to the public as a fait accompli. |
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| Many protestors have claimed the closure was already a fait accompli, and yesterday the consultation exercise was branded a sham by some of those opposed to the closure. |
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| Instead, he presented the program as a fait accompli, and as a strong leader his demands for loyalty drowned out any voices arguing for debate or amendment. |
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| The Iranians are racing to make their nuclear capability a fait accompli. |
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| Perhaps the member suggests this is a fait accompli that has not happened. |
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| The shipowner has thus continually been faced with fait accompli. |
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| In such circumstances these States, including Ireland, are merely presented with a fait accompli, and their legitimate interests and rights cannot be taken into account. |
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| The shareholders are always put before the fait accompli without being able to express their opinion on the relevance or merits of the board of directors' recommendations and decisions. |
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| Far from a mere possibility, it could be a fait accompli. |
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| As regards its principal assistance in the news media sector, the Commission found itself faced with a fait accompli owing to its unfamiliarity with the technical aspects of the media. |
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| The Kingdom of Morocco was trying to create a fait accompli and was thus confirming its unwillingness to end the illegal occupation of the country. |
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| Without the prior liberation of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, any electoral process would be nothing but a parody of democracy aimed at legitimizing a fait accompli. |
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| As I have said, the principal question that has to be determined is whether the advertisement in any way apprises, or suggests or presumes that Parliament has already taken a decision, that there is a fait accompli. |
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| Mr. Quiverful's appointment to the hospital was, however, a fait accompli, and Mr. Harding's acquiescence in that appointment was not less so. |
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| He later announced the news of his marriage as fait accompli, to Warwick's considerable embarrassment. |
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| The smaller Member States must not be confronted by a fait accompli, with a common foreign and security policy having come about because the larger countries have already adopted positions. |
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| He did his best to sound statesmanlike as he accepted the fait accompli. |
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| The Navajo nation defeated bids to open casinos in 1994, but by 2004 the Shiprock casino was a fait accompli. |
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| Most accepted the rule of the Inca as a fait accompli and acquiesced peacefully. |
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| No unionist worth the name should contemplate let alone accept as a fait accompli anything that legitimises the enemies of democracy and truth. |
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| This illegal act is aimed at creating a fait accompli situation in the conflict settlement, thus affecting negatively the ongoing peace negotiation process. |
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| London hoped that Nasser's engagement with communist states would persuade the Americans to accept British and French actions if they were presented as a fait accompli. |
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| The same can be said of the next generations of artists, those who anteceded Dubuffet and whose work accepts the face-body schism as a fait accompli. |
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