pronunciamento

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

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

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

NBC's pronunciamento beat ABC to the verdict by seconds, CBS by 15 minutes.*

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 oppositional pronunciamento of the German bourgeoisie may be dated from 1840, from the death of the late King of Prussia, the last surviving founder of the Holy Alliance of 1815.

From Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 by Marx, Karl