(n.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.
(n.) Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have the president of the tribunal, Sir Michael Burton, arguing that his work needs to be done in secret to secure the trust and co-operation of the intelligence services – but what about the trust of the British people and the confidence of the lawyers who seek to establish the rights of ordinary members of the public?
(2) Many cases before the commissioner remain unresolved, although those who wish to pursue matters to the tribunal as part of the transitional arrangements will not have to pay an additional fee to appeal to the tribunal.
(3) Gowher Rizvi, chief representative of the prime minister, Sheik Hasina, told the Guardian that preparations for the forthcoming elections, were "completely on track" and that the tribunal, probing crimes committed during the 1971 war in which Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan, was about bringing justice previously denied by "the twists and turns" of the country's history.
(4) Theory and practice of urology generates three types of professionals: doctors, who study at universities and obtain their licence by making a demonstration before the Protomedicato Tribunal; surgeons, who acquire their surgical techniques through a teacher-pupil training relationship outside universities; and empirics, who were in charge of performing surgical operations.
(5) And it was at the second meeting – a short meeting, sure – where Philip made the suggestion that maybe [Brayley] would wish to speak to someone else and get some kind of counselling or assistance.” It was revealed on Monday that the medical board has referred 12 other matters of alleged professional misconduct by Nitschke to the tribunal, to be heard at a later date regardless of whether Nitschke is successful with the current appeal or not.
(6) Inhabitants are excluded from other social housing despite many having lived in Italy for generations; a fact the tribunal in Rome cited as evidence of discrimination on ethnic grounds.
(7) Kambanda and several members of his cabinet were convicted of genocide by an international tribunal .
(8) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
(9) The exact timetable for the hearing was being determined by the tribunal Wednesday afternoon.
(10) 10.54am GMT Among other things, Heath’s measure would improve the transparency of the investigatory powers tribunal, which investigates complaints from members of the public made against the intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ .
(11) The Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court, provides an extensive definition of rape as a war crime and the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda have prosecuted rape as a war crime.
(12) Both Keilloh and Madden face further hearings: the doctor will be examined by a General Medical Council disciplinary tribunal over his role in Iraq and the priest is to be interviewed by the archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley.
(13) Some couriers, too, are fighting back, staging public protests and preparing legal challenges in employment tribunals over whether their self-employed status – which denies them the right to the minimum wage and holiday pay – is, in fact, bogus.
(14) A friend heard the butcher boast five shillings that he would be let off again by the tribunal, for the sixth time.
(15) Their absence denied the meeting a quorum, and a new president of the tribunal was appointed by the president, Andrzej Duda, instead.
(16) That’s why it’s so important our legal challenge succeeds.” The coalition government introduced employment tribunal fees in July 2013.
(17) At the request of the American Association of Jurists, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal was called upon to consider violations of international law of the self-determination of peoples by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as to make proposals for change.
(18) It would have been better if they had killed me.” Naseri was forcibly deported in August 2014, but the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) ruling to send him back was made in December 2012, based on security advice at that time.
(19) The tribunal was appointed after talks between the police staff associations and the Home Office broke down last October.
(20) The Premier League set up a disciplinary tribunal to try West Ham, who in April 2007 pleaded guilty.
Vaulted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Vault
(a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.
(a.) Covered with an arch, or vault.
(a.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cranial vault displayed a severe concentric hyperostosis besides other striking changes.
(2) Two cases of uterine injury complicating midtrimester abortion induced by hypertonic saline are described, one with an extensive laceration of the cervix and the other with a rupture of the lower uterine segment extending into the vault of the vagina.
(3) The deformities resulting from premature closure of a coronal, sagittal, metopic, or lambdoid suture can be predicted by the following observations: (1) cranial vault bones that are prematurely fused act as a single bone plate with decreased growth potential; (2) asymmetrical bone deposition occurs mainly at perimeter sutures, with increased bone deposition directed away from the bone plate; (3) sutures adjacent to the stenotic suture compensate in growth more than those sutures not contiguous with the closed suture; and (4) enhanced bone deposition occurs along both sides of a nonperimeter suture that is a continuation of the prematurely closed suture.
(4) Unusual to see one around here until just recently.” More deer vaulted in front of my car on Yubari’s main street the following day, forcing a swerve.
(5) We have studied the incidence of intraoperative hemorrhage, bladder damage, hemorrhage up to 48 h after surgery, hemorrhage up to 14 days after surgery, vault abscesses or collections and pelvic peritonitis.
(6) They commemorate – sometimes no more questioningly than a press release – a new novel or stage play or film, before disappearing into production-company vaults.
(7) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
(8) The standard procedure consisted of an abdominal sacropexy, with use of Marlex mesh to anchor the vaginal vault to the sacral promontory and retroperitonealization of the mesh.
(9) If you hold more than a few thousand pounds [at home] you are likely to invalidate your household insurance, or will have to pay an extra premium and install security measures.” Bullion Vault’s 60,000 customers own the gold they buy, but it is held in vaults in London, Zürich, New York, Toronto or Singapore.
(10) They can be summarized as: mesial shifting of the maxilla, dimensional increase of the mandibular body, ovoidal upper arch with a deeper palatal vault, tapering or trapezoidal lower arch.
(11) A case is reported in which an immense cranial vault was reduced as part of the rehabilitation of a patient with severe hydrocephalus who had preservation of the intellect.
(12) The prosthodontic management of patients with partial tongue resection often includes lowering the palatal vault, while the management of the total glossectomy patient usually requires a mandibular tongue prosthesis.
(13) He’s nine now but he has seen it.” Others using the vault feared they had lost jewellery, family heirlooms, cash and essential documents, he added.
(14) The supplementary use of external cranial vault molding devices after these surgical techniques, however, has resulted in consistently improved cranial vault from over what could be achieved by operation alone.
(15) This was accompanied by an overall significant reduction in neurocranial vault length during the first 30 days of development.
(16) There were eight patients with the radiological type I characterized by diffuse, symmetrical osteosclerosis with pronounced sclerosis of the skull and enlarged thickness of the cranial vault, and six patients with type II characterized by diffuse, symmetrical osteosclerosis, "Rugger-Jersey spine" and "endobones" (bone within a bone) in the pelvis.
(17) There was no direct physical evidence that any of the guilty men were ever in the vault.
(18) The common clinical finding enabling us to include all 36 tumors in this study is a large tumefaction of the cranial vault, without our being able to determine its anatomical starting point or histological nature.
(19) On these casts intermolar and intercanine arch width, arch length, ratio, palatal vault depth and palatal volume measurements were performed.
(20) And then, instead of destroying the text, he perversely deposited the manuscript in a Swiss bank vault in the custody of his wife and son.