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

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

Mrs. Bloomer replied to Mr. Floyd through the same paper, meeting and refuting every objection, thus in a measure antidoting the poisonous influence of the senator's pronunciamento.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady