tribunal

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

Updated on: 24 Apr 2018

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

Under terms of the accord aimed at ending Latin America’s longest-running conflict, rebels who lay down their weapons and confess their war crimes to special peace tribunals are to be spared jail time and extradition.

— joshua goodman, BostonGlobe.com, "In blow to peace, Colombia jails former rebel on US drug warrant," 10 Apr. 2018
Criminal prosecutions within an international tribunal seem increasingly unlikely.

— NBC News, "Investigators quietly probe allegations of Syrian war crimes," 29 Mar. 2018
Duterte is facing a possible complaint before the world tribunal for the thousands of killings of drug suspects during his time in office.

— Fox News, "Duterte calls for abandoning International Criminal Court," 18 Mar. 2018
An official United Kingdom tribunal is currently examining how and why former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government chose to join the invasion of Iraq.

— Newsweek, "Analysis," 14 Mar. 2018
The alternative would be an independent external tribunal.

— The Economist, "A memo to big techThe techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do," 20 Jan. 2018
The tribunal has refused to provisionally suspend two Sochi gold medalists — bobsled pilot Alexandr Zubkov and skeleton racer Aleksandr Tretiakov — despite their disqualifications and life bans by the IOC.

— Bloomberg.com, "The Word 'Russia' to Appear on Olympic Uniforms," 20 Dec. 2017
Pradhan said the restrictions should be lifted because Baluchi, who’s awaiting a capital trial by a military tribunal, gets a therapeutic benefit from being able to create and share his work.

— deepti hajela, miamiherald, "Lawyer for alleged Sept. 11 plotter seeks art exception through war court litigation | Miami Herald," 4 Apr. 2018
In 2008 Haringey’s director of children’s services, Sharon Shoesmith, was sacked (unfairly, a tribunal later found).

— The Economist, "The troubling surge in English children being taken from their parents," 22 Mar. 2018

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