The indictment was out of the gate in four months, creating a legal fait accompli that turned Qaddafi from a beleaguered head of state into an indicted war criminal.
But when Mr Strauss-Kahn was put forward by the current French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, in a brilliantly timed fait accompli that left other EU governments reeling, some big emerging economies made it pretty clear that they wanted to review the whole business of Europe snaffling these posts by right.
"Instead we've been presented with a fait accompli that extends the end date of the building works from 2026 to nearly 2040 and does nothing to deal with the current substandard station.
Hassan Rowhani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005, admitted in a series of interviews that he had entered into discussions with the European Union then leading the West's negotiations with Tehran for the purpose of buying time so that his country could develop its nuclear technology and present "a fait accompli" that "would change the entire equation".
However, all parties want Brexit to be over and the U.K. political system and its elite want to stay in Europe and the possibility for revoking article 50 will come as a self-inflicted "fait accompli" that will end the saga.
The U.S. response was designed to prevent China from creating a fait accompli that could close off large parts of the South China Sea.
Trump's call was allegedly made in defiance of concerns voiced by the U.S. State Department about the OSCE report — a fait accompli that mirrors the style of Erdogan himself.
They were unable to do anything about the fait accompli that had been handed to them, because they strongly desired to win the Vietnam War and needed to support the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
The Polish leader, Józef Piłsudski, feared that the Entente and the League might accept the fait accompli that had been created by the Soviet transfer of Vilnius to Lithuania on August 26 , 1920
In the face of this growing repression, there has been a dismaying tendency in both Europe and the U.S., to portray the Russian takeover of Crimea as a fait accompli that will be impossible to reverse.
Not only will such reporting produce the little details, "the petits faits vrais that create verisimilitude"; it is essential for literature's greatest effects.
