Word: accomplies
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Last month Healy decided to pay the Unicorp real estate company the $3 million they said the city owned them from an eminent domain seizure in 1984. Not only did Healy wait until two days before payment to tell the council about this fait accompli, but he had never even told them about the lawsuit...
Despite being presented with what he termed avirtual "fait accompli," Gregoire says hiscommittee will try to stop the move...
...that war is a fait accompli, we must continue to fight in accordance with two principles: Minimize casualties, and maintain open diplomatic channels that might allow an early end to the conflict. The congressional resolution for force was not a carte blanche authorization for unnecessary brutality and indefinite prolonging of the conflict. Although there has to date been no evidence that the invasion has violated the resolution's intent, the U.S. must be sure to stay within these bounds...
...elect to tamper with the uranium in the future, U.S. experts estimate, the process of turning it into a bomb would take a minimum of several months. Since an IAEA inspection might occur within that period, a diversion could be detected before an Iraqi nuclear bomb became a fait accompli. Even if Saddam's scientists succeeded in using the salvaged core to make a bomb, most U.S. experts believe it would be so bulky that it could not be launched by any missile or bomber Iraq possesses, and would thus have to be delivered to its detonation site by truck...
Never has the U.S. inched toward a war so bloody with so little national debate. Bush would love to browbeat Congress into supporting a war by presenting them with a fait accompli. He knows that once a war begins, the already cowardly Congress will be even more reluctant to criticize executive policy. We, as members of the generation that would risk our lives to fight this battle, demand immediate action...