juntas

Meaning

of Junta

Examples

The so-called Facebook and Twitter revolutions in the Arab world started in hopeful online communities, but once they emerged into the messy offline world, they were commandeered by religious fanatics and military juntas. Yuval Noah Harari

And in South Africa the governments liable to do the interfering in, or deposing of, elective governments are not military juntas but themselves higher elective branches charged with responsibility to a wider set of interests. Source: Internet

Already in 1810, the Caracas and Buenos Aires juntas declared their independence from the Bonapartist government in Spain and sent ambassadors to the United Kingdom. Source: Internet

Hoping to restore the juntas of oligarchic partisans that he had put in place after the defeat of the Athenians in 404 BC, Lysander arranged for Agesilaus II, the Eurypontid Spartan king, to take command of the Greeks against Persia in 396 BC. Source: Internet

Well, Britain during Mr. Horald Wilson was against the coup but subsequent British governments had welcomed all the coups being perpetrated by the misdirected military juntas. Source: Internet

Fighting soon broke out between juntas and the Spanish colonial authorities, with initial victories for the advocates of independence. Source: Internet