accomplished fact
Example Sentences
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The AIA’s Prowitt said safety is not a fixed, accomplished fact in the aerospace industry, but a “never-ending objective” that requires constant improvement.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023
The selection of Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, as acting DNI is an accomplished fact, and nothing anyone says is likely to change it.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2020
"It's very important that such cooperation with Syrian authorities is established, even now that it's an accomplished fact," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N.
From Reuters • Sep. 27, 2014
A political union with us will be just the official recognition of an already accomplished fact.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though so late, the citizens were not in bed, but standing at their doors and windows discoursing of that which was now an accomplished fact.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
