accomplished fact
Example Sentences
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The AIA’s Prowitt said safety is not a fixed, accomplished fact in the aerospace industry, but a “never-ending objective” that requires constant improvement.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
The selection of Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, as acting DNI is an accomplished fact, and nothing anyone says is likely to change it.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2020
"It's very important that such cooperation with Syrian authorities is established, even now that it's an accomplished fact," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N.
From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2014
What the other Jeremiahs warn against, Andrew Hacker, professor of government at Cornell, states as accomplished fact: "The United States has been embarked on its decline since the closing days of the Second World War."
From Time Magazine Archive
No resistance was offered, and when the Emperor reached the city at three o'clock in the afternoon the revolution was an accomplished fact.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
