Word: fait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Margaret Thatcher's government may deserve mild blame for allowing the impasse to arise, for it had long been aware of the potential for trouble over the Falklands. But faced with the Argentine fait accompli, the British were right to respond immediately, imposing a 200-mile blockade around the islands and demanding that Argentina withdraw its troops below the nations discuss the Falklands future sovereignty...
...weeks, but it proves just how strongly committed the Corporation is to scrapping the four-year-old ban, the only concession ever made to students on the issue. Further, it suggest that only the angriest of protests by the ACSR has a hope of reversing the Corporation's fait accompli...
...maintains distance from his character. In his dryness and his logic, his running about and his posing, Kearns reduces the "Beggar's Friend" to a common demoninator, strips him down to the essential. In the simple statement, "Justice gives way to humanity," Kearns presents to the audience a fait-accompli which they must now judge themselves. In the same way, he hands over Peachum...
...succeed. Even though the leaders of the opposition Labor Party are willing to negotiate with Jordan about territorial concessions on the West Bank, they may inherit a fait accompli if they return to power. They might find the thousands of Jewish settlers, many of whom fanatically share Begin's biblical dream of a greater Israel, even more difficult to dislodge than the nearly 1 million indigenous Arabs are to absorb into Israel...
Whenever they start talking about Barry Hannah in the periodicals, they always bring up the Southern Writer thing. Southern Writers. The phrase rolls blissfully off the tongue as if it actually mertied those majuscules. It rolls off the tongue like a fait accompli, like some sort of advertising slogan. Southern Writers. Northern Lights. Westward...