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We accepted the NATO position as an accomplished fact," Lavrov explained.
NATO, Russia Still Fail to Agree on Missile Defense in Europe
Hajj Hassan delivered a word during the event, saying that the climate change aspect has become an accomplished fact which the whole world has begun to take into serious consideration.
Climate change workshop in Tel Amara
Now, the media illusion is that equality for girls and women is an accomplished fact, when it isn't.
Murphy Brown feminism
Notwithstanding that (by my rough calculations) states encompassing between 80-90 percent of the world's population recognize the State of Palestine while states encompassing only between 10-20 percent of the world's population recognize the Republic of Kosovo, the Western media (and, indeed, much of the non-Western media as well) act as though Kosovo's independence were an accomplished fact while Palestine's independence is only an aspiration which can never be realized without Israeli-American consent, and much of international public opinion (including, apparently, the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah) has, at least until recently, permitted itself to be brainwashed into thinking and acting accordingly.
Palestinian statehood: quality as well as quantity
Notwithstanding that (by my rough calculations) states encompassing between 80% and 90% of the world's population recognize the State of Palestine while states encompassing only between 10% and 20% of the world's population recognize the Republic of Kosovo, the Western media (and, indeed, much of the non-Western media as well) act as though Kosovo's independence were an accomplished fact while Palestine's independence is only an aspiration which can never be realized without Israeli-American consent, and much of international public opinion (including, apparently, the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah) has, at least until recently, permitted itself to be brainwashed into thinking and acting accordingly.
Palestinian Statehood: Quality as Well as Quantity
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!

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