Example sentences of "as [art] fait [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move , which has been presented as a fait accompli , effectively heralds the complete break-up of Deloitte Haskins & Sells International ( DHSI ) , which until the beginning of this week was ostensibly in talks with another Big Eight firm , Touche Ross International . |
| 2 | First he takes the city council to task for presenting the LET scheme as a fait accompli , criticising it for ‘ accepting without question LET's objective of redevelopment in the form of 500-metre-long , inward-looking building ’ . |
| 3 | Instead , the wall was used as a reason for seeking conciliation with the East and accepting it as a fait accompli . |
| 4 | First , there may be a view that consultation may do little but depress and demoralise the work-force which is bound to see the implementation of redundancies as a fait accompli . |
| 5 | The County Council , having been presented with the Channel Tunnel as a fait accompli , is concerned to maximise its potential benefits by directing associated commercial development to those areas which will benefit most . |
| 6 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 7 | R. R. Stokes , a Catholic Labour MP who feared that the price of resistance to Hitler would be the establishment of Communism throughout Europe , led a small group of MPs in calling for peace negotiations — a position which accepted the partition of Poland as a fait accompli . |
| 8 | The liberals of the Cortes of Cadiz accepted this dissolution as a fait accompli and it was this that made the Orders the chief enemies of liberalism in Spain . |