Example sentences for: tribunal

How can you use “tribunal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Can Mr Hun Sen now justifiably refuse to hand them over to an international tribunal, particularly at a time when war criminals from the former Yugoslavia have been indicted and former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is under siege?"

  • Although, according to local Albanians, the Serbs spent three days burning documents before the British arrived, the Guardian quoted an official of the Hague war crimes tribunal as saying that scraps of paper left behind might be useful in establishing a "paper chain" between President Slobodan Milosevic and the massacres carried out in Kosovo.

  • The Byzantine Emperor at the time, Manuel II (1391–1425), tried to appease his enemies by allowing a Turkish district, mos­que, and tribunal within his city, and by courting Turkish goodwill with gifts of gold, but to no avail.

  • In Corriere della Sera of Milan, the 90-year-old columnist Indro Montanelli, one of Italy's most influential journalists, said he hoped it wasn't so, for this would mean that the tribunal had deliberately timed the indictment to sabotage peace negotiations.

  • Woollacott noted that Arbour's words in the Hague, while underscoring the independence of the tribunal, "suggested quite directly that the timing of the indictment had been affected by the disclosure of intelligence by certain countries.


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