Everything from that point forward felt like a fait accompli.
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But the new rules seem to be a fait accompli.
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Why not exploit a fait accompli as a diplomatic carrot?
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As far as Moscow is concerned, Crimea is a fait accompli.
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"It looks like a fait accompli," said one Abidjan-based diplomat.
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It was a fait accompli by the time Obama weighed in.
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This would be a "proper" war, not a quick fait accompli.
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"It's a fait accompli," said Diego Guelar, Argentina's ambassador to China.
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The city is a fait accompli 20 years after its founding.
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The conventional wisdom was that Thomas's confirmation was a fait accompli.
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They need to know they have not achieved a fait accompli here.
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Among the cast, though, the night's outcome felt like a fait accompli.
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The stock market is acting like the "remain" vote is a fait accompli.
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HarperCollins had been, in fact, a fait accompli for years, in the same
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And maybe, just maybe, the Warriors wouldn't feel like such a fait accompli.
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If this article makes you think, my work here is a fait accompli.
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Orban's commanding two-thirds parliamentary majority made his new powers a fait accompli.
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City and union leaders here have accepted a lower headcount as a fait accompli.
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The deal is awaiting regulatory approvals before completion, but it is a fait accompli.
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But the statement also made a national citizenship review sound like a fait accompli.
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The Brattle authors emphasize repeatedly that this electrified future is not a fait accompli.
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Like the former bosses of Islami Bank, Bangladeshis are being presented with a fait accompli.
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Their blessing of a change usually amounts to a belated acceptance of a fait accompli.
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Many Egyptians believe that Ethiopia is stalling so that the dam becomes a fait accompli.
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It has also been exhaustively chronicled, which makes this set feel like a fait accompli.
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Having an almost fait accompli winner slightly takes the polish off the win, doesn't it?
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The two often cut deals in private and present them to lawmakers as a fait accompli.
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And now governmental regulation of Facebook and other social media appears to be a fait accompli.
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It's a key step in cajoling the world into accepting his nuclear state as fait accompli.
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It was a political maneuver to confront the incoming Trump administration with a regulatory fait accompli.
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Oblivious to the fait accompli, Mugabe emphatically announced he will preside at the upcoming party's congress.
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When a white officer shoots an African American male, the results too often seem like fait accompli.
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What was once a fait accompli is now a deliberative process, with important decision points for founders.
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By the time the international community figured it out, Russia's conquest of Crimea was a fait accompli.
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Russia continues to support the separatist republics in Ukraine, and Crimea's annexation has become a fait accompli.
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But I do believe that this is not a foregone conclusion, this is not a fait accompli.
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Robert Iger, Disney's chief executive, never mentioned Comcast and presented the Fox deal as a fait accompli.
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By early May 2016, however, his victory appeared a fait accompli, placing them in an unenviable position.
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If not a fait accompli, I believed (at a minimum) it boded well for women entering the workforce.
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In 2017, Czech President Milos Zeman said Europe should accept Russian annexation of Crimea as a fait accompli.
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FCC Chair Ajit Pai is trying to make the end of net neutrality look like a fait accompli.
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Indeed, many charter supporters — and this editorial, too, for that matter — effectively accept segregation as a fait accompli.
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First, the peace deal that Santos obsessively sought is likely a fait accompli, even with a Duque victory.
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But present them with the severed ear as a fait accompli, and he just might have a chance.
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" Its Washington correspondent described it as "a political earthquake in the U.S. and the world, a historic fait accompli.
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Many think that, presented with a fait accompli, the Democrats would grudgingly support whatever alternative scheme they are offered.
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Moscovici told CNBC that the revisions were not a fait accompli but a first analysis of the current situation.
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If McCain had caved, Republican leaders would have been able to present the "skinny" bill as a fait accompli.
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Therefore, Assad was most likely presented with a fait accompli and did not have any input in this decision.
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The Nixon campaign has said that the terms of the debate were presented to it as a fait accompli.
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If you accepted advertising as a fait accompli of modern life, then posters could provide spaces for aesthetic experimentation.
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Today's readers, by contrast, are playing catch-up, scrambling to think through the implications of an electoral fait accompli.
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This year it may do the same even though the conventional wisdom choice of "Oreo" feels like a fait accompli.
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Despite endless Washington hand-wringing about a long-term Iranian presence in Syria, Tehran's mobilization there is a fait accompli.
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By the time Apple decided to focus on low-resolution audio for its earliest iPods, it was a fait accompli.
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The fall of Aleppo meant that Assad, and his Iranian/Russian allies, had won the war as a fait accompli.
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That would leave NATO to choose between escalating the conflict and accepting a fait accompli that would destroy the alliance.
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Broad expansions of surveillance power that would have been unimaginable in February are being presented as fait accompli in March.
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Broad expansions of surveillance power that would have been unimaginable in February are being presented as fait accompli in March.
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To Eric, marriage seems a fait accompli, but when Toby senses the cage of intimacy lowering over him he bolts.
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It was not a fait accompli, but David was able to get Earvin permission to play on the Dream Team.
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The platform gave its series healthy budgets, their stewards complete creative control; renewal for multiple seasons was seemingly a fait accompli.
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UGANDA ELECTIONS Fait accompli: A lot has changed in Uganda in the last 30 years except one thing: President Yoweri Musevini.
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It can work better to present the changes as a fait accompli and allow residents to shape rather than reject them.
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Some might say that Mr. Abbas accepts Israel's Jewishness only as a fait accompli, not as a matter of historic right.
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Nearly a decade later, it's easy to consider widespread autonomy to be a fait accompli, an achievement on the cusp of attainment.
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The wedding day, executed by event producer Fait Accompli, also took place at the Rosewood, where blooms by Tuscany Flowers were prominent.
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Trump didn't even ask for advice from his new top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, instead presenting the tariffs as a fait accompli.
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For Hermann — whose wife, Gretl (Faye Castelow), is Catholic — cultural assimilation is a fait accompli as Austria moves into a new century.
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In 1960, the FDA caves in to what is essentially a fait-accompli and Enovid becomes the first authorized oral contraceptive pill.
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It meant forfeiting the entire semester's worth of credits, something she believes was fait accompli with how low his GPA already was.
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You'll tell us whether we succeeded, but the outcome is always to earn the philosophy rather than present it as a fait accompli.
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The Chinese government expected a Clinton presidency as a fait accompli and is ill-prepared for the policy priorities of a Trump administration.
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Mr Autor and two of his most frequent co-authors support the deal, arguing that the globalisation of manufacturing is a fait accompli.
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The announcement appeared to be an effort to make the mayor's commission more of a fait accompli in advance of the Council hearing.
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For the better part of a year and a half, the $225 billion acquisition was regarded, more or less, as a fait accompli.
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It went into operation last week, and Mr. Moon has complained that its deployment was rushed to present him with a fait accompli.
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And it kept the whole process secret, allowing the company, the mayor, and the governor to present the agreement as a fait accompli.
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"Unlike in October, Trump's Cabinet put up little resistance to a decision many viewed as a fait accompli," John Hudson and Philip Rucker report.
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If you've been paying attention, you'll know this isn't the first time we've heard that the symbolic 0003 ppm threshold is a fait accompli.
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When Republicans unexpectedly won unified control of the federal government in November, they began speaking of repealing the Affordable Care Act as fait accompli.
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Securing the two-thirds majorities needed to override the president has been widely seen as a fait accompli, despite some Democratic wavering last week.
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Securing the two-thirds majority needed to override the president has been widely seen as a fait accompli, despite some Democratic wavering last week.
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But a funny thing happened on the way to the fait accompli of back-to-back Warriors championships: Mr James refused to be dethroned.
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The Trump administration cannot decide if its peace plan is an opening gambit to trigger a compromise or a fait accompli that precludes one.
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The agreement simply formalizes what had already been kind of a fait accompli going back to the earliest days of the iPhone and iPad.
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With no need to click anything or make any mistakes in order to trigger the attacker's success, being targeted may be almost a fait accompli.
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" He said he didn't notify anyone because "I decided it wasn't like I knew somebody was going to murder somebody; it was a fait accompli.
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Sander LevinSander (Sandy) Martin LevinWarren gets endorsements from 6900 Michigan officeholders, activists Bottom Line Canada left facing a fait accompli in NAFTA negotiations MORE (D).
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Similarly, it is also premature for Mr. Trump to consider his proposed 11 percent increase to the National Nuclear Security Administration's budget a fait accompli.
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"The defense perceives the comment as a fait accompli — that he will get a life sentence and he's going to be convicted," Mr. Bederow said.
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With so many measures on the ballot, many pro-pot activists believe a series of wins will make marijuana legalization seem like a fait accompli.
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Seeing Glazer and Solbakken together, followed swiftly by Solskjaer's admission that he had spoken with the club's owner, seemed to make it a fait accompli.
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For weeks, Time Warner shares traded at a price equal to that ultimate merger value, reflecting the market's view that the deal was a fait accompli.
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Mr. Moon had accused both Washington and the government of the impeached President Park Geun-hye of trying to make the Thaad deployment a fait accompli.
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Mr. Iger, speaking on a conference call with analysts after Disney reported a 23 percent increase in quarterly profit, presented the deal as a fait accompli.
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"The other branches are then presented with a fait accompli," according to a 1999 paper by the political scientists Terry M. Moe and William G. Howell.
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Earlier on Thursday, Macron said that Turkey could not expect solidarity from NATO allies when it launched its offensive in northeast Syria as a "fait accompli".
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Furthermore, within the ruling "Chavismo" movement, Maduro outmaneuvered would-be rivals, such as powerful party No. 2 Diosdado Cabello, to make his candidacy a fait accompli.
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This isn't an emotional outburst or wistful "Say you'll remember me"; this is Taylor looking at the wreckage of a vindication, a stinging fait accompli of vengeance.
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"While this needs to be ratified by the remaining members of the OPEC+ group, this appears to be a fait accompli," ANZ analysts said in a note.
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Beneath the surface, there have been reasons for optimism that the stagnation was not a fait accompli; and now, those reasons for optimism have breached the surface.
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But it turned out that the U.S. and Mexico actually negotiated a completely updated NAFTA and presented this tentative pact to Canada as a virtual fait accompli.
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"The primary aim of such exercises should be to bolster the collective ability to deter, deny and, if necessary, blunt potential Chinese fait accompli aggression," it said.
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"Facial recognition needs to be stopped before a fait accompli is established," Patrick Breyer, a member of the European Parliament for the Pirate Party Germany, told POLITICO.
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He accused the United States and South Korea earlier of rushing the deployment to make it "a fait accompli" before a new leader takes office in Seoul.
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"It can be an easier pitch to investors when they know they can no longer influence negotiations, and a deal is presented as fait accompli," he said.
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"By the time he takes office, [Aleppo] may be a fait accompli," said Michael T. Klare, a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College.
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The vote on December 14 is a fait accompli, all but guaranteed by the current partisan makeup of the Commission: three Republicans in favor, two Democrats deeply opposed.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has seized on this gap, and hopes to present the Trump administration with a fait accompli in Syria -- one with far less US alternatives.
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Some viral tweets had suggested the funding cuts were a fait accompli, but the entire budget proposal in fact had little to no chance of ever passing Congress.
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Some viral tweets had suggested the funding cuts were a fait accompli, but the entire budget proposal in fact has little to no chance of ever passing Congress.
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China has ignored the ruling, however, and the fortification of seven artificial islands it has built there has made Chinese control of those waters virtually a fait accompli.
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Yet in the topsy-turvy and relatively brief history of the WBC, what in theory should have been a fait accompli turned out to constitute something of a breakthrough.
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Kim Eui-kyeom, a spokesman for the presidential Blue House in Seoul, said when asked about Trump's $500 million figure that it "shouldn't be taken as a fait accompli".
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In one example from the film, the transcript of a bitter board meeting reveals a costly move that he shared as a fait accompli rather than as a proposal.
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Tom Angell, a founder of the Marijuana Majority, said he was equally annoyed by those saying the announcement was a fait accompli and those who dismissed it as empty.
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" I'm concerned about it but I also don't ... I'm not in the class where I'm here saying, "It's going to happen, it's a fait accompli, it's a done deal.
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"They had reached out to me personally Friday before it launched, when obviously it was a fait accompli," says Josh Golin, executive director of Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood.
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The credibility of its forward presence depends on having reinforcements ready and being able to deploy them rapidly to prevent Russia from creating a fait accompli in the Baltic states.
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"Over the past decades, Hezbollah has unfortunately managed to impose a fait accompli in Lebanon by the force of its weapons, which it alleges is a resistance weapon," Hariri said.
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The state auditor said use of the BP funds was a fait accompli and there is no legal way for his office to block the governor's use of the funds.
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The ethics of internet culture: a conversation with Taylor Lorenz Take some of his work as inspiration, since the demise of the ethical engineer doesn't have to be a fait accompli.
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It also hasn't yet fully absorbed the requirements of this new, global struggle for influence, one where the costs of losing may not be apparent until it's become a fait accompli.
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Russia, Iran and Turkey are busy trying to rearrange the bloodied jigsaw of Syria for a grand fait accompli by January 20, 2017, and the inauguration of the next US president.
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By contrast, if Mueller's firing is already fait accompli by the time Trump-skeptical Republicans try to mobilize against it, they're the ones who'll be leaned on to not make trouble.
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Sander LevinSander (Sandy) Martin LevinWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Bottom Line Canada left facing a fait accompli in NAFTA negotiations MORE (D-Mich.), will work on the account.
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Accepting his new son-in-law, more or less grudgingly, as a fait accompli, Benton did a great deal to promote Frémont and the cult of celebrity that his life embodied.
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As the end of the week neared and potentially gettable votes in favor of calling witnesses kept falling away, the impeachment trial's denouement began to resemble more of a fait accompli.
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"General Prem was resolute in not accepting this fait accompli, and worked with ASEAN partners to oppose the Vietnamese occupation in international forums," Lee said in comments on his Facebook page.
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But on the other hand, all three are highly suspected to have sat out the Emmys because Game of Thrones winning one last Best Drama trophy seemed like such a fait accompli.
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One issue that is being treated pretty much as a fait accompli, is the waiver of the pay-go sequester that would have to be passed shortly after a tax bill passes.
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Overturning the veto requires a two-thirds vote in both chambers, and Corker said the override would be "a fait accompli" if senators voted on the politically charged issue before the elections.
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"It's not a fait accompli that all of her support goes to Bernie Sanders," said Neil Sroka, communications director for Democracy for America, a political action committee that endorsed Sanders on Monday.
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China's recent spectacular land grab in the South China Sea is a fait accompli, given China's superior power in the area and its assertion that the region is a core national interest.
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If the country could sweep into Taiwan so fast the world did not have time to react (as when Russia invaded Crimea) other countries might conceivably treat an invasion as a fait accompli.
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Another group of environmentalists was presenting them with a fait accompli, asking them to sign on to a policy that a roomful of mostly white wonks had determined was in their best interests.
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Given that Yoon's author bio states she "firmly believes that you can fall in love in an instant," it may seem like the book's ultimate stance on the matter is a fait accompli.
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According to the two sources close to Shell, Gazprom did not consult with Shell about bringing in the firm, which is called RusGazDobycha, but instead presented it with the plan as a fait accompli.
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If you've been paying attention to Android rumors for the past month or so, you know that at this point it's a fait accompli that HTC will make two Android Nexus phones this year.
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Between electing the first black president, legalizing gay marriage, and the increased demographic and religious diversity in America, the elevation of a woman to the highest office in the land seemed a fait accompli.
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"Over the past decades, Hezbollah has unfortunately managed to impose a fait accompli in Lebanon by the force of its weapons, which it alleges is a resistance weapon," Hariri said in his resignation speech.
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Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Netanyahu's announcement was a "continuation of attempts to create an unacceptable fait accompli that will not lead to any peace, security or stability".
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These actions have confronted the United States Navy with the choice between somehow enforcing longstanding international law governing maritime territorial claims and conduct or accepting Chinese control of these seas as a fait accompli.
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The coronation was in some ways a fait accompli; the closest rival for the award, James Harden, could only muster a halting, staccato approximation of Westbrook's ability to take a game's outcome into his hands.
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"I wouldn't say the rule is a fait accompli, but I think the odds favor it taking effect on schedule," said Blaine Aikin, executive chairman of consultant fi360 and a noted expert on fiduciary issues.
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Polls close in West Virginia at 7:30 pm Eastern time, and in Nebraska — where only Republicans are voting on a nomination that's already a fait accompli for Donald Trump — at 9 pm Eastern time.
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Similarly, the Internet of Things is generally discussed as a fait accompli, but also as a somewhat creepy networking of household and personal appliances instead of a potentially huge benefit to affordable and preventative medicine.
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Mr. Scott and his allies have tried to portray the Senate election as a fait accompli — he is currently ahead by about 137,000 votes — and the recount as a futile attempt to prolong the inevitable.
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Mexico today buys more U.S. exports than the combined purchases of — take your pick — Japan and China, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, or, assuming Brexit as a fait accompli, the European Union.
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With less than a minute gone in the second quarter, victory was fait accompli for Stanford, given its No. 1 status nationwide for time of possession and its opposition, a team that hews to the ground.
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"I don't think it's a fait accompli at all," said Michael S. Barr, a law professor at the University of Michigan and editor of the nonpartisan Russell Sage Foundation's journal, Financial Reform: Preventing the Next Crisis.
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In a country such as France, which holds its elections on a two-round, run-off system, it is by now nearly a fait accompli that the National Front will advance to the decisive second round.
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"Dovish Fed rhetoric has rendered a July rate cut, in the market's eyes, as a fait accompli: it's not if they cut but by how much," Morgan Stanley strategist Hans Redekar told clients in a note.
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During his campaign, Mr. Moon, who won the presidency last month, complained that the United States and the previous South Korean administration had rushed to deploy Thaad in order to present him with a fait accompli.
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While the soon to be newly elected South Korean President will be under enormous pressure from China not to allow this system's deployment, the recent tensions are likely to make this close to a fait accompli.
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Next, through more graduated escalation and dramatic de-escalation, North Korea will seek to trick the U.S. to accept its intercontinental ballistic missiles-borne nuclear warheads as fait accompli — a reality the U.S. can live with.
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"Who would you say decided your case: the legislature, which targeted your specific case and eliminated your specific defenses so as to ensure your neighbor's victory, or the court, which presided over the fait accompli?" he wrote.
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P.S.G. is so much richer, so much stronger, than all of its domestic rivals that many worry that Ligue 1 will morph into a mere procession, a fait accompli, its interest and relevance dwindling as a result.
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But the episode is built around the fait accompli of Claire and Jamie's recoupling, and it subsequently serves to highlight what makes Outlander, at its best, one of the finest Shows About Sex that television has to offer.
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However, with North Korea's progress in nuclear weapons development and a spate of attacks on South Korea over the last several years, stability on the Korean Peninsula in the decades to come is far from a fait accompli.
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"At the time, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said Netanyahu's remarks were a "continuation of attempts to create an unacceptable fait accompli that will not lead to any peace, security or stability.
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Second, some countries, which are also the founding members of the European Union, such as Italy and the Netherlands, are strongly objecting to the French-German plans being thrust on the rest of them as a fait accompli.
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Mao decided to stick to a relatively small arsenal big enough to serve as a deterrent, and that decision was made a fait accompli by the political turmoil of Mao's era, which held back the nuclear weapons program.
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The US assessment is the Kim Jong Un will use a new US administration to "push for attention" and try to make the world accept as a fait accompli that North Korea is a nuclear state, the official said.
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It's the way the NFL and the NBA screw up: the level of play is great, but sometimes the lead-up to the fait accompli of the New England Patriots or the Golden State Warriors just grinds you down.
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"We believe fingerprinting is going to be a fait accompli in Massachusetts," said Scott Solombrino, a board member of the National Limousine Association and president and CEO of Dav El, which operates a chauffeur transportation business in 600 cities globally.
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With exceptions for his administrative action in the regulatory and immigration enforcement realms—and the Supreme Court appointment of Neil Gorsuch, a fait accompli—Trump's first months in office have been marked by incompetence, backstabbing, judicial injunctions, and legislative failure.
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It codified recent musical history by presenting Broadway's absorption of pop and rock influences as a fait accompli and in songs like R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" (sung by Mr. Rapp), showing the degree to which the lines have blurred.
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But such a case needs to be actively made, rather than offered up as a no-brainer; there's little a populist demagogue can weaponize more easily than a policy, however sensible, presented by knowing elites as a high-minded fait accompli.
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"To be presented with FIFA's 'solution' as a fait accompli and claim this to be consultation defies all definitions of best practice and good governance," Richard Scudamore, the executive chairman of England's Premier League, wrote to Infantino on March 9.
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The sources said policymakers were concerned that Draghi was flagging his measures so strongly to markets as a 'fait accompli' that there would be no chance for them to disagree with them in at the next policy meeting on July 25.
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A Syrian opposition figure described the battle for Saraqeb, at the junction of Syria's main north-south and east-west highways, as a "war of wills", while a rebel military commander said both countries were trying to impose a "fait accompli".
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While Xi's 2018 move to drop term limits on the presidency and clear the decks to serve for life may have involved much internal politicking within the Chinese Communist Party, it was presented to the country as a fait accompli.
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It is not a place where the past is stored; it is an institution that manufactures the past as if people's refusal to be colonized, subjugated, made stateless is over, and what was acquired through violence is a fait accompli.
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City's players, of course, are not talking about the Premier League title as a fait accompli — "It is far too early," said Fabian Delph; "We can't be complacent," said Kevin De Bruyne — but from the outside, it looks that way.
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On June 20, Halifax Regional Council voted unanimously to allow Sports and Entertainment Atlantic (SEA) to build a "pop-up" stadium on the downtown Wanderers Grounds, making the arrival of a CPL team in the Nova Scotia capital seemingly a fait accompli.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The U.S. men's team extended their Olympic unbeaten run to 24 games with a tense 94-91 win over Serbia on Friday, but their uneven play hinted that a third straight gold might not be a fait accompli.
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In a bid to make its control of the area a fait accompli, China in the past two years has built seven artificial islands in the South China Sea, equipped with airstrips, radars and ports and staffed by thousands of workers and soldiers.
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Authoritarianism is not something presented to us as a fait accompli, but something we help along, step by step, by acquiescing to changes in political climates that start with pronouncements by the leader and slowly move the boundaries of what is possible.
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Republican promises to shift the Supreme Court further to the right — which just a few days ago seemed like a fait accompli — have been one of the major reasons conservatives say they are willing to tolerate an otherwise dysfunctional Republican-controlled government.
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" He derided the impeachment effort as "a hoax" and said he had not thought to delay his annual State of the Union address before the culmination this week of his Senate trial — an expected acquittal that Mr. Hannity framed as a "fait accompli.
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To Ms. Santiago, 33, who lives in Brooklyn, politicians presented the deal as a fait accompli to New Yorkers and offered no avenue for public input — a poor way of trying to sway a city where people revel in making their views known.
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Voila, fait accompli, the war ends before the punishment arrives, and Russia walks away with a clear victory: annexing NATO countries (or at least parts of them), demonstrating that the US is impotent, and presenting NATO and the European Union with some major existential crises.
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Even if we take the most cynical approach about the growing arms race in Earth orbit -- that it's a fait accompli -- can't we at least make a push for an absolute weapons ban in those regions of the solar system that haven't already been compromised?
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The current, slow-burning crisis arose not from one episode, but from Mr. Kim's broader strategy over the past year: to accelerate the pace of nuclear and missile tests so his arsenal becomes a fait accompli, something the United States cannot hope to reverse.
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When the vote was slated for December, she postponed it, to the anger of MPs from all parties who suspected she was trying to run down the clock and make her deal a fait accompli by not allowing enough parliamentary time for a debate on any alternative.
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Today the DDoS attack seems like a fait accompli of digital life: in October, a bot-powered DDoS attack shut down major sites around the internet — a caper that exposed the fragility of the internet, as the attack was soon classified as the largest of its kind ever observed.
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" The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza wrote that voters shouldn't give Clinton a pass for losing New Hampshire, arguing that despite Sanders' natural appeal in the state, "the idea that a Clinton loss here was a fait accompli or should have been expected misses the mark – by a lot.
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THAAD is being characterized as a manipulation by the USA and the previous South Korean government—that they snuck in THAAD without proper discussions in parliament, without proper environmental tests, basically snuck it in quickly to leave it as a fait accompli for the new [more liberal] government.
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That's not to say the Democrats don't have a reasonable chance of obtaining the net 24 seats they need to wrest control away from the GOP, but the talk we hear — and often coming daily from both sides — is that a new Democratic majority is a fait accompli.
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All of this is anathema to Bolton, who today took the remarkable step of suggesting, via Twitter, that scheming officials within his own White House team had leaked this proposal to the press in an attempt to create a fait accompli: I read this NYT story with curiosity.
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Critics say Mr. Casaleggio's role is indicative of the party's secretive, top-down power structure and that Mr. Di Maio would not have gotten to this stage in the political negotiations if Mr. Casaleggio were not already on board, rendering any vote on the agreement a fait accompli.
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Senators made pious noises and partisans bemoaned the state of the republic, but the widespread Washington wisdom was that this was a fait accompli: After decades of "Butter Battle Book"-style escalations in the judicial wars, a minority veto was simply too antiquated, anachronistic and pre-ideological to survive.
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That Russia was able to take the territory without a fight, that many Crimeans (but by no means all) welcomed the annexation, and that, for some, Russia's historic claim to Crimea gives a veneer of legitimacy to Russia's action, tempt many to accept the annexation as a fait accompli.
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" Miller was less optimistic, predicting US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer "presents the US-Mexico deal to Canada as a fait accompli, and says, "would you like Quebec dairy or Ontario autos" — a reference to the president's threat to slap tariffs on Canadian cars on Monday if a deal isn't reached.
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For an overwhelming problem like climate change, being able to take some action — whether eating less meat or switching to an electric vehicle — can help fight paralysis and get patients to recognize that the worst of climate change is not a fait accompli and that some progress can be made.
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"To be presented with FIFA's 'solution' as a fait accompli and claim this to be consultation defies all definitions of best practice and good governance," Richard Scudamore, the executive chairman of England's Premier League, wrote to Infantino on March 9 after learning the FIFA Council might vote on expanding its club tournament.
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Continuing to treat a victory over Senator Bernie Sanders as a fait accompli, Hillary Clinton on Sunday questioned Donald J. Trump's business record and assailed his ideas, warning that the coming weeks represented a critical period in which, if left unchallenged, Mr. Trump could "normalize himself" as he seeks to broaden his support.
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Sander LevinSander (Sandy) Martin LevinCanada left facing a fait accompli in NAFTA negotiations Overnight Health Care: Trump official slams 'Medicare for All' | House votes to delay ObamaCare health insurance tax | Senate panel advances bill banning drug 'gag clauses' House votes to delay ObamaCare health insurance tax MORE (D-Mich.) is urging Republican Gov.
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By forcing blue-state liberal types to reckon with a demographic they had long dismissed as a punch line — low-income, uneducated whites in economically depleted regions — he awakened them to the fact that the groovy progressive social values they had assumed were a national fait accompli were actually only half the story.
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In terms of the ethics and politics of architecture and urban development, today's progressive architect needs to rethink the top-down, fait accompli approach and find innovative ways to constructively reach out to the multiple populations (in addition to community boards) that comprise a city, as an integral part of the design process.
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The announcement last month that he had won his second annual Most Valuable Player award in the American League was a fait accompli; the real question is what the voters were thinking in the three seasons that he finished second, given that he should have been number one in every single year of his career.
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If, as some fear, the alternative after Helsinki is Trump unilaterally revoking some sanctions against Russia for nothing in return, all while dismissing Crimea as a fait accompli, then insisting on a resolution to the decades-long Kuril Islands dispute instead is clearly the better option for making the most of U.S. leverage abroad.
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The surprise announcement of the overseas matches as a fait accompli, after earlier changes to the match calendar that have created later kickoff times and far more matches on weekdays, forced the players to go public with their concerns, said Aganzo, who suggested that a strike to protest the latest move was a serious possibility.
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The escalating fighting in the Arab state suggests that "Russia may want to 'finish up' in Syria so as to present Trump with a fait accompli in January, and then pave the way for an improvement in U.S.-Russia relations," said Nikolas Gvosdev, a professor of national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College.
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Ever since Klopp's team swept past Manchester City at Anfield in November, the Premier League race has been presented as a fait accompli: The gap between Liverpool, the runaway leader, and City, the reigning champion, grew first to nine points, then 11 and now, thanks to Manchester United's derby win last week, 14 points.
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We are only at the beginning of that process; Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his members are poised to pass what he calls an "Obamacare repeal resolution," creating the false impression, at least in some circles, of a fait accompli—that if this week's vote succeeds, the die is cast and Obamacare will be no more.
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One of the pet peeves of conservatives over the last several years has been the lack of "regular order" in the House of Representatives — that is, major legislation was negotiated by leadership and presented to members for a vote as a fait accompli, rather than moved organically through subcommittees to full committees and then through the full house.
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Sander LevinSander (Sandy) Martin LevinCanada left facing a fait accompli in NAFTA negotiations Overnight Health Care: Trump official slams 'Medicare for All' | House votes to delay ObamaCare health insurance tax | Senate panel advances bill banning drug 'gag clauses' House votes to delay ObamaCare health insurance tax MORE (D-Mich.), Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelPelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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I have already warned that the tax bill is not a fait accompli, but for different reasons: It is not clear if corporate tax cuts will be a 27 or 2019 event (the Senate bill pushes it out to 2019) and President Donald Trump has intimated that the corporate tax cut may only be 22 percent, not 20 percent.
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Sander LevinSander (Sandy) Martin LevinCanada left facing a fait accompli in NAFTA negotiations Overnight Health Care: Trump official slams 'Medicare for All' | House votes to delay ObamaCare health insurance tax | Senate panel advances bill banning drug 'gag clauses' House votes to delay ObamaCare health insurance tax MORE (D-Mich.), a leading labor supporter, has announced his opposition to the proposed agreement.
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When Charles and Diana's son Prince William married Kate Middleton 30 years later in a wedding believed to have cost $34 million, the Lord Chamberlain's office planned the daytime ceremony at Westminster Abbey (as is customary, the invitations read, The Lord Chamberlain is commanded by The Queen to invite...), but the evening party at Buckingham Palace was organized by the event planning firm Fait Accompli.
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Sander LevinSander (Sandy) Martin LevinCanada left facing a fait accompli in NAFTA negotiations Overnight Health Care: Trump official slams 'Medicare for All' | House votes to delay ObamaCare health insurance tax | Senate panel advances bill banning drug 'gag clauses' House votes to delay ObamaCare health insurance tax MORE (D-Mich.), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Thursday.
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Boren's apparently counterproductive statements had their motives, he said: to try to sway a fellow Big 12 member, Texas, from committing to its own sports network in partnership with ESPN, which — as Boren predicted — has hindered the Big 12 in a variety of ways; to urge conference members to consider expanding the league at a time Boren thought that wise; and to reject that expansion when many thought it was a fait accompli.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersRepublicans, rooting for Sanders, see Biden wins as setback Sanders says Biden winning African American support by 'running with his ties to Obama' Sanders condemns his supporters' 'ugly, personal attacks' against Warren MORE (I-Vt.) will scramble to accumulate delegates in states scheduled to hold their primaries each week, hopscotching to shifting spotlights across the country — and one in which the prospects for a contested convention, seen as fait accompli as late as the weekend, have faded substantially.
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It mattered to the vast majority of nations who saw it as an opportunity not only to rebuke Trump, but also to remind themselves and their people of longstanding commitments they made to support UN resolutions about the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, about the importance of seeking a two-state solution, and about the need to preserve the final status of Jerusalem as an outcome of negotiations between the two sides -- rather than as some sort of fait accompli by one or another member states.
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