pronunciamento
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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
Last week, therefore, English women schoolteachers listened nervously for a scathing male pronunciamento.
From Time Magazine Archive
El Morocco banned Bogart "for life" in a pronunciamento delivered in tones as sepulchral as if he were being sentenced to the electric chair.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"You could say every one of those things about Lincoln," was her surprising pronunciamento.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
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
NOW that all sides in Viet Nam seem willing to relinquish rhetorical pronunciamentos for real bargaining, the distances separating the adversaries on specific issues can begin to be measured.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was uniformly in favor of toning down our fiery pronunciamentos.
From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
