Sentence examples for to fait from inspiring English sources

Quinlan's axing inarguably damaged the club's reputation and was among a number of clear indicators that its struggle for survival was close to fait accompli.

Like the rest of the people who had come to Fait or eventually worked there, Sally McCartan saw publicity as the only way to prevent more bloodshed.

If a victim comes to Fait for help, the group will offer counselling and the possibility of publicity, but it will not try to negotiate a settlement with a paramilitary group.

A few months after the N.C.A.A. floats the idea of expanding its men's basketball tournament to 96 teams, it appears to be close to a fait accompli.

Regarding Syria, the U.S. president's visit to Saudi Arabia will be a good occasion either for qualitatively new decisions by Washington, or for laying another brick in the reputation the U.S. has gained for backtracking and caving in to one fait accompli after another, and to Iranian and Russian dictates.

"I was frankly appalled at the undertone of the discussion, which suggested resignation to the invasion and even adaptation to a fait accompli," General Scowcroft wrote in "A World Transformed," the memoirs he wrote with President Bush, of the first military briefing after the invasion.

But avoiding what might be called the "Dudley Paradox" – a CEO is paid a huge bonus for hitting targets, even as the company suffers major losses – requires boards to stop delegating the entire pay discussion to the compensation committee and waiting for the decisions to arrive, fait accompli, tied up in a bow.

When female presidents are imagined, they are in office thanks to a fait accompli of some kind, which is also delegitimising: power was handed to her, or she inveigled her way into it.

The question persists: What incentives do the Palestinians have to resume the talks about the future of Jerusalem if the results on the ground point to a fait accompli?

Mr. Levitt also perfected a political style that often consisted of going over people's heads -- directly to the public to rope in a recalcitrant Congress, to the top executives of Wall Street firms to get their underlings in line, to an inner circle of staff members to present a fait accompli to his fellow commissioners.

"France will not resign itself to a fait accompli," he told cheering crowds.