accomplished fact

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.

“When they open their eyes to reality they’ll find accomplished facts.”

Except for a brief interlude working in London when I was in my mid-twenties, I have been in America ever since: an immigrant if not in original intention, then in accomplished fact.

“The native Palestine Arabs,” he said, “never fought seriously because they had no reason for fighting, having accepted the presence of the Jews with its economic benefit and the de facto partition as accomplished facts.”

“To hear the move of the Reagan memorial announced as an accomplished fact, without any of the promised intermediate steps and public debate having taken place, is shocking,” he wrote.