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  • Junta is a Spanish word that means a tribunal or military dictatorship.

    Sound Politics: King County GOP election results 2006

  • The Revolution hangs in the balance and the Junta is hard-pressed; guns and ammunition are needed desperately.

    “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

  • But there is a game called Junta that I have enjoyed in the past that has a similar though not identical theme of oppression and violence involved.

    It’s not offensive because I say it’s not 2005

  • DELANEY: The defense calling Junta's son to support his father's contention he killed Michael Costin only in self-defense, beating him to death following a dispute over roughness at a pick up hockey game Costin supervised at a rink outside Boston.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2002 2002

  • The Junta is the organization through which Cuba's friends reach the Cubans in the field.

    Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904

  • Cubans, another large source of income to the Junta has been the silent liberality of many American citizens, who have proved their practical sympathy to the cause of freedom by giving of their wealth to aid it.

    Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904

  • By the twelfth, the Junta was then to govern conformably to the laws, in everything which did not oppose the plan of Iguala, and till the Cortes had formed the constitution of the state.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • Some 500 tacos were delivered to his office Thursday after a Latino activist group called Junta for Progressive Action launched a text-for-tacos campaign to draw attention to the comment, which Maturo later apologized for.

    CNN.com 2012

  • Some 500 tacos were delivered to his office Thursday after a Latino activist group called Junta for Progressive Action launched a text-for-tacos campaign to draw attention to the comment, which Maturo later apologized for.

    CNN.com 2012

  • Mostly though I'm hoping more people try out Junta, which is an awesome board game.

    USC IMD: rjlayton 2008

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