tribunal
IPA: trʌbjˈunʌɫ
noun
- (law) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
- (Philippines, historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.
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Examples of "tribunal" in Sentences
- The tribunal nullified the election.
- Belmar was unusually candid with the Tribunal.
- The court upheld the jurisdiction of the tribunal.
- In 1998 the operation of the Tribunal was expanded.
- Lahmar's testimony before the tribunal was acrimonious.
- The constitutional tribunal upheld the legality of the law.
- The tribunal is expected to indict members of the powerful Lebanese Shiite faction - Hezbollah.
- If treatment under civilian tribunal is no different than military, why are you up in arms about it?
- If treatment under military tribunal is no different than civilian, why is everybody up in arms about it?
- A U.N. tribunal is investigating the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
- Words come to mind that I can't print in their entirety, that the tribunal is full of petty popinjay chickens**ts.
- This tribunal is independent, with a clear mandate from the Security Council to uncover the truth and end impunity.
- Mark Buehner: If treatment under military tribunal is no different than civilian, why is everybody up in arms about it?
- He said the tribunal is independent and has a clear mandate from the Security Council "to uncover the truth and end impunity."
- Setting up quasi judicial tribunals has almost always been accompanied by squabbles over their powers and appointment of members.
- Here in MA, for example, the tribunal is a doctor, a lawyer and a judge who hear evidence to determine whether it is actually a malpractice case or mroe along th elines of an unfortunate medical result.
- An as yet unidentified Norwich Green councillor has been banned from being a national member for 5 years for actions which seem to amount what the Greens tribunal is interpretting as breaching the Data Protection Act. Yet because of their bizare system this individual can continue to be a Norwich Green councillor.