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Record 1 2003-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

fait accompli: a thing accomplished and presumably irreversible; an accomplished fact.

CONT

When there was no longer any chance of reducing the revolting colonies which fought with the help of volunteers from abroad, the British Government ... entered into negotiations with them and eventually acquiesced in the fait accompli by concluding with the young American confederation, first a preliminary and then a definitive peace treaty at Paris ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

fait sur lequel il n'y a plus à revenir.

CONT

Le 3 novembre 1903, se produisit le soulèvement du peuple panaméen aidé par la marine américaine. Trois jours plus tard, la République de Panama vit le jour, le gouvernement des États-Unis la reconnut aussitôt comme État nouveau [...] et la Colombie fut mise devant le fait accompli.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vocabulario general
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