juntas

I know this will sound like hyperbole, but it's literally true: I've seen Latin American juntas surrender power more gracefully.

Michelle Rhee has managed to offend me now, too 2010

I know this will sound like hyperbole, but it's literally true: I've seen Latin American juntas surrender power more gracefully. ...

DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 17, 2010 2010

And it entails that you cannot use military experience to lay claim to the presidency (like for exemple in juntas)! — rk

Obama Tries to Answer Questions About Patriotism - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

A historian looks at the Kremlin today and sees elements of Mussolini’s “corporate state,” Latin American juntas and Mexico’s pseudo-democratic PRI machine.

The Volokh Conspiracy » 2007 » July 2007

A historian looks at the Kremlin today and sees elements of Mussolini’s “corporate state,” Latin American juntas and Mexico’s pseudo-democratic PRI machine.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Gary Kasparov on Putin’s Russia and the Godfather: 2007

On the issue of upstate politics, Helen Sumner writes that "in the towns and villages of the State the high-handed methods of 'juntas' and 'combinations,' and especially the 'Albany Regency' were the subject of bitter denunciation."

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

As far as "juntas" are concerned I'm going to give you the same advice I gave Phil Spackman, please go sit in on an 8th grade English Lit class and learn about something called sarcasm.

Sound Politics: King County GOP election results 2006

Whatever be the rights of what are called "juntas" in certain parishes, the congregations are not deemed to have any legal existence independent of the vicar under the vicar Apostolic or bishop deriving his authority from the pope

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

NATO had overlooked such concerns when Greece and Turkey were ruled by military juntas.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The murderous juntas of Argentina and Chile in the 70s and 80s spring to mind.

Hugo Chávez's reverse-halo effect | Jonathan Glennie 2011