pronunciamento

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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

For once & all, in a carefully copyrighted pronunciamento � "Party Loyalty and The Presidency"�for this week's Saturday Evening Post, badgered Mr. Coolidge said his say.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said Allied Generalissimo Gamelin in his last pronunciamento before being relieved: "The British Air Force, like the French, is fighting to the last man."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was necessary to get the first two nations on their side before making a pronunciamento on the Ruhr and reparations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even then there was report of a pronunciamento in one of the northern cities of the Republic—the State, by a polite euphemism, being still so designated.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne