pronunciamento

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

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

Last week, therefore, English women schoolteachers listened nervously for a scathing male pronunciamento.

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

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

A few days later Lafayette, as commander of the armies in the North, issued a pronunciamento against the popular excesses.

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