Thesaurus results for TRIBUNALS

tribunals

noun

plural of tribunal

as in courts

an assembly of persons for the administration of justice was tried before a military tribunal and found not guilty of the charges

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Recent Examples of tribunals But through a series of deft legal maneuvers—joined to the ever more ambitious self-concepts of some international legal tribunals—Mauritius was able to win a second legal victory at another international tribunal, for the law of the sea. —

David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026 The position will also represent the department in front of administrative tribunals such as the State Personnel Board and the California Department of Human Resources as well as assist the attorney general’s office on civil litigation matters. —

Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado updated February 24, Sacbee.com, 24 Feb. 2026 Several oil companies sought compensation through international tribunals and arbitrators. —

Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026 The Nuremberg trials also helped to establish precedents used in later international criminal tribunals, including those in the wake of the Bosnian war and Rwandan genocide, and influenced the formation of the International Criminal Court, which began operating in 2002 in The Hague. —

B.b. Blaber, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025 That panel included two former judges who had overseen international criminal tribunals, a former legal adviser to the British Foreign Office, and Amal Clooney, a British Lebanese human-rights lawyer and the wife of George Clooney. —

David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025 Winding its way through tax tribunals and the county treasurer's office all the way to the Michigan Court of Appeals through a trail of unseen revocation notices, jurisdictional conflicts and behind-the-scenes bureaucratic handwringing, that eventually got worked out. —

Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Such action could include an arms embargo, sanctions and more support for international tribunals investigating Israel's possible crimes. —

Mariam Khan, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2025 Only the Journalists' Association is authorized to evaluate the work of professionals in the field, not social media tribunals. —

Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025

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