Sentence examples for unprecedented trial from inspiring English sources

For Guatemalan Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu the unprecedented trial was an opportunity for Ixil Mayans to show other indigenous communities how to exercise their rights.

Six weeks ago, an unprecedented trial concluded in Senegal, where the former ruler of another country – Hissène Habré of Chad – was convicted of crimes against humanity.

But on one particular night - December 19 - they were watched by a solicitor who reported back to the morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, the first in a series of events that would lead to a theatrically unprecedented trial at the Old Bailey in London and have an outcome that was legally almost as unique.

He expressed regret in the unprecedented trial before the International Criminal Court.

The "unprecedented" trial of a dead man, she said, shows that "so much political capital is already invested in this case, and they need some legal back-up".

Then, in a step that could have even broader ramifications than the unprecedented trial, on 15 May the National Academies held a public fact-finding meeting in Washington, D.C., kicking off a yearlong study of lab safety in nonindustrial institutions.

"The unprecedented impeachment trial that will begin immediately after the inaugural is sobering to say the least," Mr. Schoenberg said.

They prefer not to be known for an unprecedented political trial dripping with sex, scandal and charges of corruption.

Last month a court upheld corruption charges against Princess Cristina, the youngest daughter of Juan Carlos, paving the way for an unprecedented criminal trial.

Despite the obstacles, there currently is unprecedented clinical trial activity in lupus nephritis, which most likely will lead to at least one drug approval in years to come.

In March, the former president will face an unprecedented corruption trial over accusations that he rewarded political cronies with salaries for non-existent ghost jobs when he was mayor of Paris from 1977-1995.