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
  • The customer took his complaint to a small claims tribunal.
    David Streitfeld, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Pal gave voice to ideas that the architects of the tribunal preferred to obscure.
    Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Still, at the tribunal, the threat of impending closure has come as a shock.
    New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • That tribunal, which decides what appeals will be heard, is off to a rocky start.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 20 June 2021
  • In the end, the seven-member tribunal did not have to grapple with that question.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 June 2021
  • There has been little reaction to the tribunal’s woes in Lebanon.
    New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The tribunal's judges have up to four months to issue a decision on such a request.
    Reuters, CNN, 14 June 2021
  • In 2016, the drivers filed a claim with an employment tribunal.
    Adam Satariano, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The Swiss tribunal upheld the challenge and lifted Yang’s eight-year ban from swimming.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
  • In it, Nas is seduced by a serpent and brought in front of a tribunal for judgment, where he is killed by a flying butt plug.
    New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • 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 mounting legal costs of a tribunal appear on the monthly board report.
    Anna Shields, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • Over the year, the Singapore tribunal’s decision is blocked and unblocked in the country’s courts.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The next step is for an employment tribunal to decide how to compensate dozens of claimants.
    Scott McLean, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • The tribunal, which is used to settle small claims and has no lawyers or judges, dismissed the claim, saying that the man’s promise fell short of being a contract.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 21 June 2024
  • Ayari says he has been tried by a military tribunal nine times, leading to three sentences.
    Francesca Ebel, ajc, 21 Nov. 2021
  • 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 case landed at the E.U.’s top court after Vestager contested Apple’s win at a lower tribunal in 2020.
    Samuel Stolton and Jennifer Duggan / Bloomberg, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Momentum is also growing behind an effort to create a new tribunal to try the crime of aggression in Ukraine.
    Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024

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