How to Use tribunal in a Sentence

tribunal

noun
  • An international tribunal was formed to deal with war crimes.
  • Bots lives in The Hague, where the tribunal took place for most of her life.
    Sarah Chatta, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Pushilin said the Ukrainians were sure to face a tribunal.
    Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • Pal gave voice to ideas that the architects of the tribunal preferred to obscure.
    Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Could Russia face a Nuremberg-style tribunal over the Ukraine war?
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The friars lodged a complaint with the bishop, and the insects were brought before a tribunal.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The arrest brings Kabuga to the Paris Appeals Court before authorities hand him over to the tribunal.
    Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The men allegedly discussed taking the governor to the middle of the lake on a boat, or holding a kind of mock tribunal for her.
    Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The drug boss came up with an impromptu plan to kidnap the president of the tribunal and force him to reverse the decision.
    Tim Golden, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But Venezuelans did not take part in the tribunal, and consider its decision null and void.
    Genevieve Glatsky, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Though after nine nights must come ten, in the everlasting tribunal of the garden.
    Sandra Lim, New York Times, 28 July 2022
  • The legacy of the tribunal was certainly muddled by the lack of consensus among the judges about the legitimacy of the charges.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Some human rights advocates say a special tribunal would be the smartest way to proceed.
    Michael Biesecker and Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Simone admits to making a mistake with the THC lotion during her bold speech at the tribunal.
    Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The tribunal will make a decision on the charges Branford has not admitted guilt for next Monday.
    Ian Leonard, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The Tokyo trial was also more of an American affair than the tribunal in Germany had been.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Over the years, there have been proposals to move the trials from military tribunals to civilian court.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In October, the buyer took his case to the tribunal, but it was recently dismissed because of the seller’s age.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2024
  • She was put on trial before a military tribunal in her own throne room.
    Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The appeals court could overrule the case and send it back to the court of first instance, the lower-level tribunal that originally sentenced Griner.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2022
  • In 2016, in a case brought by the Philippines, an international tribunal in the Hague ruled that China’s claim to historic rights to the bulk of the sea had no legal basis.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • He has now been cleared of any wrongdoing by a London employment tribunal judge.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The modern-day dispute over Essequibo dates to around 1899, when a tribunal was held in Paris to determine the boundaries of what was then called British Guiana.
    Genevieve Glatsky, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • So Sands has floated the idea of setting up an international tribunal to cover the crime.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 28 May 2022
  • Such bias should not be allowed to influence a quasi-judicial tribunal like CRMC.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • That led soldiers to kill innocent people and stage combat that never happened, the peace tribunal said.
    Diana Durán, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The Canadian tribunal in this case came down on the side of the customer, ruling that Air Canada did not ensure its chatbot was accurate.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Microsoft is appealing the British regulator’s move to block the deal and a tribunal hearing on that is set to begin later this month.
    Time, 11 July 2023
  • Microsoft is appealing the British regulator's move to block the deal and a tribunal hearing on that is set to begin later this month.
    CBS News, 11 July 2023
  • In 2016, an international tribunal at The Hague ruled that China had no legal basis for such claims.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023

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