Word: accomplies
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...while the battle of diplomacy is raging, there is a chance that the whole question at issue may be determined by the development of a Separate State--a "falt accompli" in the Rhineland. For France this would be almost as good security as the famous left bank of the Rhine. For England it would be a dangerous development. And so the British stay on at Cologne...
...left vacant by the head of the Hohenzollerns. Perhaps that is the reason why he telephoned to Berlin and assured the Government of his loyalty to the Reich. The chances of such a coup are on the face of it good. The Allies, confronted with a fait accompli, would hesitate to take any costly action against Germany; moreover, Prince Rupprecht is known to be a thoroughly trustworthy and practical man and as such is respected; he is also cousin of the Queen of the Belgians. The real barriers to the Wittelsbach aspirations lie in the fact that North Germany...
...became a rich man, so rich that it was said that his money alone was enough to debar him from the Spanish Court. His wife, who is very beautiful, managed to advertise his wealth ostentatiously, and thereby aroused more jealousy, criticism and suspicion. When the revolution became a fait accompli, Don Alba was in San Sebastian, on the Franco-Spanish border, but he rapidly crossed the frontier to Biarritz in order to avoid arrest. The National Directorate charged him with...
...against the clergy and the Roman Catholic religion. It was the same way in Russia. The church was communized despite the indignant voice and obstructive tactics of the priests. As in France, so in Russia the clergy were the first dissentients to recognize a revolutionary Government as a fait accompli. The All Russian Church Council identifies Bolshevism with itself in its resolution, which starts: " Inasmuch as the Soviet Government is the only one in the whole world fighting capitalism, which is one of the seven deadly sins; therefore its struggle is a sacred struggle...
...same on human beings. He takes blood from one limb, passes it through an apparatus he has invented where it is treated with heat, electricity, or serum as the case may be, and then back into another limb. His object is then reached and the transmutation is a fait accompli...