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He has been an unsparing critic of the sluggish Soviet bureaucracy, and may hope to galvanize it by negotiating directly with Reagan agreements that he can present to his subordinates as faits accomplis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sadat still had plenty of misgivings about the Israelis, and he demanded last week that they stop setting "preconditions or faits accomplis."

From Time Magazine Archive

Many of the predicted wonders of Whalen's tomorrowland already seem old-hat after 25 years: superhighway networks, air-conditioned homes and television are long-established faits accomplis.

From Time Magazine Archive

But what have been the results directly springing from these high-handed acts, these political faits accomplis?

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

She had not meant to speak so soon, she said; she had wished her intentions to be faits accomplis before she disclosed them, but all this had upset her and she must explain.

From Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls by Barnes, Robert