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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.

That does not make a war with Iran a fait accompli, but it does bring the possibility ever closer.

The Iranians are racing to make their nuclear capability a fait accompli.

He did his best to sound statesmanlike as he accepted the fait accompli.

But for Moore, the most difficult and also most satisfying fait accompli was her giblet gravy.

Yet, even in France, the task of transforming medicine into a natural and exact science is far from being a fait accompli.

Rupture in diplomatic relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, he said, was a fait accompli.

Then Gladstone, October 7, tried to force Palmerston's hand by treating the intervention as a fait accompli.

And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a fait accompli?

Helen's own friends, I discovered, had passed from teasing to regard us as a fait accompli, and thereafter held their peace.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fait accompli, such as: accomplished fact, a truth, certainty, cold hard facts, done deal, and done deed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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