pronunciamento
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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
In a pronunciamento to the whole country, Chang Tsao-Tsen declared that peaceful efforts at reunification had failed and practically admitted that he was powerless against the opposition of the war lords.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every other Johnsonian swagger, pronunciamento and claim is held up to the light for flaws and cracks.
From Time Magazine Archive
For two years Joseph Stalin had refrained from any public pronunciamento.
From Time Magazine Archive
Half a century elapsed; the State of Wisconsin, rock-ribbed Republican, nullified the fugitive slave law and in its pronunciamento of nullification quoted the very words which Jefferson used in 1798.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Ida Husted Harper
With votes at stake, with polls changing almost hourly, it is only natural that politicians and their close supporters provide a nearly endless stream of pronunciamentos rife with contradictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2016
From these pronunciamentos, you might deduce that Steward was a little depressed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2015
"He would come on the set and make big pronunciamentos, and I would chuckle at him."
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2015
He cast all his pronunciamentos in language carefully calculated to endure.
From Time Magazine Archive
His presidency was filled with pronunciamentos and civil wars, which produced the consummation of the overthrow of the federal constitution of 1824, and the adoption, in 1836, of a central constitution.
From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by B. M. Norman
