pronunciamento
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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016
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
However daring a writer's pronunciamento, it is taken in stride by the movers and shakers as part of democracy's continuing dialogue.
From Time Magazine Archive
President George Meany, 71, issued a pronunciamento that sounded like a declaration of independence from the Democrats.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plot had ripened in her hands almost to maturity, and before very long Bogota itself would speak for liberty in a formidable pronunciamento.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
