tribunal

noun tri·bu·nal \ trī-ˈbyü-nᵊl , tri- \

|Updated on: 30 Jul 2018

Examples: tribunal in a Sentence

Definition of tribunal

1 : a court or forum of justice

2 : something that decides or determines

the tribunal of public opinion

3 : ²tribune

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Examples of tribunal in a Sentence

An international tribunal was formed to deal with war crimes.
was tried before a military tribunal and found not guilty of the charges

Recent Examples of tribunal from the Web

Khan also used the venue to criticize former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia last week by an anti-graft tribunal over the purchase of luxury apartments in London.

— munir ahmed, The Seattle Times, "Pakistan opposition leader Khan unveils election platform," 9 July 2018
And Uber lost case after case in employment tribunals around the world, which forced it to stop classifying its workers as independent contractors in some countries.

— The Economist, "Run, TaskRabbit, run: July 2030," 5 July 2018
In 2002, the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal, the International Criminal Court, came into existence.

— BostonGlobe.com, "This day in history," 30 June 2018
Serbia manager Mladen Krstajic is under investigation for suggesting that referee Felix Brych should be put on trial in The Hague, the Dutch city where tribunals are held for war crimes.

— SI.com, "Xhaka, Shaqiri Could Face Two-Game Bans After 'Political' Celebrations vs. Serbia," 24 June 2018
Taylor — who went on to become Liberia’s president, only to later face a war crimes tribunal at the Hague — denied that any of the children fighting for him had been forced into combat.

— jeremy roebuck, Philly.com, "Ex-child soldiers say Delco man turned them into killers," 19 June 2018
The Flicks’ wealth traces its roots to Friedrich Flick, who spent three years in prison after he was convicted by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal of using slave labor to produce armaments for the Nazis, among other crimes.

— bloomberg, Time, "The Nazi Shadow Behind the World's Youngest Billionaires," 7 May 2018
An administrative tribunal created by the 2011 law, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, ruled that the patent was invalid.

— adam liptak, New York Times, "Supreme Court Upholds Procedure That’s Said to Combat ‘Patent Trolls’," 24 Apr. 2018
One aim is to keep the issue in the public eye and to prepare the ground for future prosecutions by the ICC or a special tribunal, if geopolitics changes in a way that allows this, says Alexandra Lily Kather, a legal adviser at the ECCHR.

— The Economist, "A plea for justiceRefugees tortured in Syria are seeking redress in German courts," 22 Feb. 2018

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