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Our hopes and the world's hopes match as we celebrate - not the accomplished fact of peace but a tone that makes peace at least possible.
Parsing the prize
While ''receiving economic cooperation and buying time'' through the conciliatory gestures, North Korea is trying to ''make the possession of nuclear arms an accomplished fact,'' he said.
LEAD: S. Korea president urges united 6-way action against N. Korea
However, the formulation of this policy should not be dictated by the accomplished fact imposed by Tehran or Tel Aviv, especially in light of the signs pointing towards an international acceptance of a 'peaceful' nuclear Iran.
The Dangers of the US Submission to the Accomplished Fact with Iran and Israel
That hasn't stopped a number of writers describing them in terms that make them sound like an accomplished fact, presumably cheering up anyone with shares in Lycra but very few others.
MALE BOX: Great strides in fashion? Leg it!
Our company has a reputation for taking an impossible idea and making it an accomplished fact.
AIC: 'we move the earth.'
I breathe easier since the renewal is accomplished fact.
When civil rights were on the rise
It's an accomplished fact, and we can probably do nothing about it.
It's now a case of Rule Bratannia!
When darkness fell on the 8th of August over the battlefield of the Second Army, the heaviest defeat suffered by the German Army since the beginning of the war had become an accomplished fact," was the verdict of the German Official report titled "The Catastrophe of August 8, 1918.
The dawn of victory: Amiens
The Everton connec-tion: Sir John Moores, a former Everton chairman, got the reluctant Sir Desmond onto the board (on which he served between 1988 and 1998) -without his knowledge: ``He presented it to me as an accomplished fact .
The `fat cat' who got the cream; Sir Desmond Pitcher talks to PADDY SHENNAN about his col ourful career
As an accomplished fact it is allowable, but as something still to be done it is not.
The Precarious Ties That Bind Us: Sotah 2a
Micklethwait and Woolridge perform a valuable service by making clear that globalization, far from an accomplished fact, is a process only just getting under way.
Trade Winds
In schools like those in Managua, Rio Piedras, and Mexico, where this is an accomplished fact, the contribution of Baptists has been significant.
Baptists and liberation theology: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
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