pronunciamento

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

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

From the Dollfuss office went forth a new pronunciamento announcing that "Nazi terrorism has become so barbarous that the Government's patience is at an end."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Half a century elapsed; the State of Wisconsin, rock-ribbed Republican, nullified the fugitive slave law and in its pronunciamento of nullification quoted the very words which Jefferson used in 1798.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted