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Meaning: (idiomatic,especiallydiplomacy)To quietly or incrementally change thede factosituation in one's favor in order to win a legal dispute.2002July,Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry[1], Washington, D.C.:President's Council on Bioethics,→ISBN, page278:And while people are dithering, the cloning research in the private biotech industries willput facts on the groundthat will be difficult to challenge. Only a moratorium can test the good faith of those who say they want regulation.2013September 11, Flavia Rocha Loures, Alistair Rieu-Clarke,The UN Watercourses Convention in Force: Strengthening International Law for Transboundary Water Management[2], Oxford: Routledge,→ISBN, page191:Its commanding influence in the signature and future ratification of theCFA, and its attempt toput facts on the groundthrough hydraulic structures, has brought the relationship between Ethiopia and Egypt to its lowest level since the establishment of theNile Basin Initiative(NBI).2013December 5, “First planned Palestinian city a symbol of pride”, inAP News[3],Associated Press:"It's a message ... that we can alsoput facts on the ground," said Palestinian-American developerBashar Masri, using a phrase associated with Israel's settlement construction on lands the Palestinians want for a state.2020August 14, Anemona Hartocollis, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, “Yale Decision: Justice Dept. Ruling Stings Students”, inThe New York Times[4]:Samuel Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan, suggested thatthe Yale findingwas motivated by "the almost certain fear byTrump administrationofficials that there's at least a substantial likelihood that come January, they won't be here. So they want toput facts on the ground, to try them in a potentialBiden administration."
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