junta

How To Use junta In A Sentence

• The election might be a catalyst for change of the sort that the junta had not foreseen. Times, Sunday Times
• The intolerant citizens have called for a nation-wide general strike to bring down the deep-rooted stratocracy in Burma, due to the junta\'s insistence of barring the Lady to participate in the country\'s political reform process. ' Burma Question - sill a matter of regional concern
• A military junta seized power and established Iraq as a republic.
• Take 1973 Chile, for example, or, for that matter, pretty much any Latin American junta take-over. Matthew Yglesias » The Surge and Afghan Women
• Japanese write as a repetition of the syllables jun-ta; and the name junta is sometimes given to the grasshopper itself. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
• Kidder had been sent to Haiti to report on American troops who were bracing the democratically elected government in the face of a powerful military junta.
• Mr. Thaksin, who was ousted in 2006 by military junta, is now living in self-exile to evade imprisonment on a corruption conviction. Moody's Lifts Thai Outlook
• In 1983, the junta relinquished power. Times, Sunday Times
• We don't know or understand the process whereby the Burmese junta changed its mind so radically on how the country should be run. Times, Sunday Times
• Fascinating to hear how your education was wrecked by the military junta. Times, Sunday Times