How to Use tribunal in a Sentence

tribunal

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  • 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
  • But for many in Lebanon, the tribunal failed on both counts.
    — Fox News, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The pair took Uber to the tribunal in 2016, which ruled in their favor.
    — Kelvin Chan, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Pushilin said the Ukrainians were sure to face a tribunal.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • That will be up to a new electoral tribunal that hasn’t yet been named.
    — SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The high court must decide if those tribunals were right.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 May 2020
  • The indictment was the first by the special tribunal for Kosovo based in The Hague.
    — Zenel Zhinipotoku and Llazar Semini, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2020
  • 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
  • The tribunal held three days of hearings on that issue last month.
    — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Moraes joined Brazil’s Supreme Court in 2017 and is the president of the country’s electoral tribunal.
    — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • 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 my Airbnb, over takeout sushi, Irena read over the tribunal’s judgment.
    — Anna Louie Sussman, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
  • 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 tribunal may rule on Mr Vizcarra’s actions, but is likely to take at least three months.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • As set forth below, the claims are either preempted, filed in the wrong tribunal, or defective as a matter of law because CAA lacks standing to bring the claim.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2025
  • While Margaret Josephs convening a pre-reunion tribunal to discuss the reunion at her house was maybe too much, this was definitely too little.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025

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