pronunciamento
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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
For two years Joseph Stalin had refrained from any public pronunciamento.
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
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
From Telemone Garibaldi addressed a letter to Signor Barline, which served as the pronunciamento of his expedition and intentions, i.e. to free Italy from the Bourbons.
From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux
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 still guns his emotional engine too loud, and the exhaust from his pronunciamentos of ten obscures the man.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are, according to all accounts, a turbulent and somewhat fanatic set, fond of quarrels, and slightly addicted to "pronunciamentos."
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
