He reminded me that he had told me the other day that he had to be very careful in giving advice to Austria, as any idea that they were being pressed would be likely to cause them to precipitate matters and present a fait accompli.
He even added, in speaking to Cambon, that were pressure brought to bear too obviously, Austria would hasten to face Germany with a fait accompli.
Rupture in diplomatic relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, he said, was a fait accompli.
No, your majesty, France will wait to see what we propose to do until it is too late, and she will perceive that a resort to arms will in no wise affect a fait accompli.
If we succeed in holding Bavaria, Germany will uphold us--for Germany never raises her voice against a fait accompli.
Europe must not learn the partition of Poland until it is a fait accompli.
And so at last I was accepted, and my engagement with Eva was recognized as a fait accompli.
True," said I, "and a home and a family that has an original and individual life of its own, is always recognized in time as a fait accompli.
There also, as in the greater part of France, the establishment of the republic was received as a fait accompli, against which resistance was useless, and as a necessity, under the circumstances of the hour.
The States-General had thus no alternative between acceptance of the fait accompli and the risk of a renewal of the war.
No protest was made; and the fait accompli was duly accepted by the Powers (May 23).
The ministry regarded the choice of such Protestant centres as Utrecht and Haarlem with resentment, but were faced with the fait accompli.
I should be beside myself if we fail, after having represented the whole matter everywhere as a fait accompli!
He seemed to accept the changed state of things only as a fait accompli, which we submit to because we cannot help ourselves.
I think the solution of the question by a fait accompli will be the luckiest and most honourable for you.
In reply to a question as to the attitude of Prussia to a fait accompli, Bismarck declared: "We shall not be able to avoid recognising the fact and devoting our full interest to the matter.
He tells me that he will bring his solution to me in such a form as shall compel me to admit it as un fait accompli [une faute accomplie?
John Brighte[376] is a fait accompli; and I am asked whether intellect can account for the final e.
Write g for the first l, and we have un fait accompli.
Instead of being awed into submission as heretofore, instead of calmly and resignedly accepting the fait accompli as was their wont, the departments immediately rose to protest against the new revolution of Paris.
In other parts, there prevailed a sort of sullen resignation to the establishment of a regime which was dreaded from an experience of a hateful past, and was repulsive to its tastes--but it was a resignation to the fait accompli.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fait accompli" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
