How to Use junta in a Sentence

junta

noun

• Pro-junta candidates vowed to root out corruption while their opponents pledged to end...
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2019
• Get our daily newsletter The junta, however, is far from united.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2019
• The junta instead delayed polls five times, suppressing dissent and outlawing...
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2019
• 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
• The mixed signals coming from the junta—negotiating one day and making arrests the next—may reflect splits within it.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2019
• Prayuth did not run for a seat, and the constitution enacted under the junta does not require the prime minister to come from parliament.
  — Fox News, 5 June 2019
• From there, the Thai military junta became progressively less selective.
  — Max Marshall, SI.com, 26 June 2019
• The junta’s supporters argue that the charter allows minority government more broadly.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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 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 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
• 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 junta had just seized power in a coup d’etat and declared martial law when Byung-moon was ordered to count the number of bodies in a minibus after a brigade opened fire on it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024