Sentence examples for junta at from inspiring English sources

The military junta at that time refused to honour the results.

The brutal military junta at the time was monstrously inept in relief efforts, even refusing aid shipments waiting just offshore in U.S. Navy ships.

A Central Junta at Aranjuez sought to control this nascent federalism and the local levies, and Spanish regular troops defeated a French army of inferior, ill-supplied troops under General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang at Bailén in July 1808.

Greek police and the military have been banned from college campuses since military tanks in 1973 rammed the gates of the school to quash a student uprising against the military junta at the time.

One strike against Mr. Junta, at least initially, was his hulking size; in contrast to the smaller frame of the dead man, it made Mr. Junta's insistence on self-defense seem improbable.

The 62-year-old, who denies all charges against him, is alleged to have used diamonds from the RUF to buy arms, which he allegedly shipped from Burkina Faso to the Sierra Leone junta at the Magburaka airfield in October 1997.

And at their worst, they are still far better than Turkish military juntas at their best.

The junta is at the head of a military whose strength is estimated at upward of 400,000, and it holds to the tenet that only that institution can bind the country together and develop its economy.

TEN months after seizing power in a coup, Thailand's junta chafes at still having to defend its record.

BARELY a fortnight after soldiers loyal to Guinea's military junta butchered at least 150 demonstrators calling for civilian rule, a deal for oil and mineral rights worth around $7 billion has been struck between China and Guinea.

And it was an economic grievance a big, abrupt rise in fuel prices that sparked the present unrest.The junta has at least succeeded in cobbling together ceasefire agreements with most of the two dozen armed insurgencies lining its borders.