Sentence examples for accompli a from inspiring English sources

Elizabeth Alexander's "Praise Song for the Day," the inaugural poem, presumes as fait accompli a political destiny which hasn't even come close to being realized: "Say it plain: that many have died for this day".

If the larger states were to move in that direction – and that means Britain and France – others could present it to their populations as a fait accompli, a prerogative, however unfortunate, of the EU.

But when it comes to the stage and the screen, the audience is presented with a fait accompli – a vision of how that playwright or screenwriter sees the story.

The choice of incumbent Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari, last week to serve a four-year term in Iraq's most powerful office appeared to be a fait accompli a few days ago.

that the transaction proposed by Genesis would obtain NCS stockholder's approval". "Because of the structural defenses approved by the NCS board," the Genesis merger was "a fait accompli". A bare majority of the Supreme Court found that the tripartite deal protection mechanism was invalid.

But then, on orders from the central government, the municipality dropped a bomb: it announced as a fait accompli a plan to fill in about 2.8 square miles of the waters off Yenikapi to create an assembly ground for political rallies and outdoor fairs.

Nearly a decade later, it's easy to consider widespread autonomy to be a fait accompli, an achievement on the cusp of attainment.

"What it is not is a fait accompli that we are going to zero", he said.

The Qing, under the Jiaqing emperor, recognized the new dynasty as a fait accompli, but a controversy arose as to a name for the new country.

"Suddenly, when a spectrum sale seemed a fait accompli as a payment on the debt, it vanished," Mr. Wheeler wrote.

The creation of East Germany was deemed a communist/Soviet fait accompli, without a freely or fairly elected government.