Word: faits
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...Politburo also would retain their posts, including Jozef Lenart, despised for his collaboration with the Soviets in the post-invasion era. And no Strougal partisans would replace the ousted Politburo members. Hence the appointment of Karel Urbanek, a relative unknown, to the prime ministry. Presented with a fait accompli, Jakes reluctantly resigned, along with six of his Politburo allies...
MUCH ink has been spilled recently, on these pages and elsewhere, on the question of German reunification. And for good reason--it is potentially the most important thing that's happened to the Eastern bloc since Yalta, in which international democracy accepted the fait accompli of a Soviet military blanket over Eastern Europe and thereby condemned millions of its newest members to at least 44 years of political suppression and economic stagnation...
...August press release, White said the plan had been presented to him as a "fait accompli" by O'Malley and another Regent. He called it "personally and professionally objectionable and intolerable" that he was not consulted on the decision, which educators say would severely weaken the Baltimore campus...
...this conservative fantasy is unlikely. Those 43-45 states inclined to restrict abortions would probably do so right away, making abortion laws a fait accompli, not a political issue...
Jewett hopes to present the class of 1993 with a fait accompli: 50 percent randomization. Not only does the staff position endorse this misguided proposal, but it condones the dean's decision to ignore the members of the Harvard community directly affected by the plan...