pronunciamento

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

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated the games with the prescribed 14-word pronunciamento: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating the XX Olympiad of the modern era."

From Time Magazine Archive

A pronunciamento in the A.O.U. magazine Auk stripped the Baltimore oriole of its name; henceforth Icterus galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole."

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

This treaty was really nothing but a pronunciamento of Bonaparte.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan