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fait accompli |
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fait accompli noun accomplished fact, achievement, actuality, actualization, attainment, carrying through, certainty, completeness, completion, deed done, effectuation, execution, fact, finished product, fruition, fulfillment, implementation, matter of fact, reality, realization, undeniable fact, work done See also: denouement How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The first three were faits accomplis by 1846, but the latter required war with Mexico. Its preferred method has been to use deceit to create faits accomplis, facts on the ground that then make the administration's broader agenda almost impossible not to pursue. Perhaps the most absurd example was the virtual refusal of the Procedure Committee to adjust the working practices of the House to accommodate the timetable of European legislation, so that for nearly two decades MPs could only feebly bleat as they were shepherded through the lobbies to vote into law a succession of faits accomplis. |
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