How to Use junta in a Sentence

junta

noun

• As the rebels gain ground and the junta reels, the country’s future is in doubt.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• Thanks to their efforts, the junta is rocking on its heels.
  — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
• This is a shame, because like the other two juntas, the Templars are great.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2017
• For a time, the junta seemed to be keeping threats to its primacy at bay.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
• Fighting the junta, the officials said, is not a crime.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• The Future Forward Party was the 58th to register since the junta opened the process March 2.
  — Kaweewit Kaewjinda, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
• Mali's junta came to power in an August 2020 coup that began as a mutiny at the Kati base.
  — Reuters, CNN, 22 July 2022
• The junta also wants to move beyond this kind of handout.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• That same year, the country was seized by a military junta.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• The junta was strongly denounced by rights groups and governments around the world.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• Outside the cemetery, heavy contingents of the junta’s troops stood on alert.
  — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
• But so far, the officials said, there has been little movement by the junta.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• The junta had ruled with a heavy fist and regularly cracked down on its critics.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
• Buenos Aires quickly lost, and shortly after, the junta fell.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• The biggest chill, activists say, comes from the junta’s use of lèse-majesté law and the widening range of cases to which it is applied.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
• The junta in turn has voiced support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
• Downing Street says the sanctions will cut off a key source of funding for the Burmese junta, which seized control of Myanmar 108 days ago.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 18 May 2021
• The junta appoints all 250 senators in the upper house.
  — Bloomberg.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• Such a scenario could play out regardless of the junta’s survival.
  — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
• This is not the first attempt to destabilize Mali’s ruling junta.
  — Baba Ahmed, ajc, 17 May 2022
• While the Mugabes and the junta negotiated, the public had a chance to say goodbye.
  — The Economist, 15 Sep. 2019
• Back then, the junta displaced around one million people.
  — Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• The military junta that took power in Burma changed the name in English to Myanmar.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• The attack on Bago was the third in the past week involving the massive use of force to try to crush the persistent opposition to the ruling junta.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• John Banville’s first novel, Nightspawn, published more than fifty years ago, is set in Greece, which was then ruled by a military junta.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 18 Oct. 2021
• Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh and those who stayed faced persecution from the junta.
  — Verena Hölzl, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• Aung San Suu Kyi spent the best part of two decades under house arrest when a military junta ruled Myanmar.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• The military junta that seized power in 2020 has been struggling to stem the violence.
  — Baba Ahmed, ajc, 24 Apr. 2022
• In flip-flops and shorts, one of the finest soldiers in a resistance force battling the military junta in Myanmar showed off his weaponry.
  — Paul Mozur Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• While many musicians emigrated, Astatke stayed and worked as a music teacher until the junta collapsed in 1991.
  — Michael J. West, Washington Post, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024