pronounce sentence
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On a cold rainy day last week, curious Parisians packed a dingy courtroom in the Palais de Justice to hear a red-robed judge pronounce sentence on Mathilde Carre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only reduction of Comrade Yagoda's power seemed to be in transferring to Soviet courts the Ogpu's right to pronounce sentence of Death.
From Time Magazine Archive
“My King, my lord and my uncle. Is it the court’s will that I pronounce sentence upon this recreant traitor?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
And in imagination she saw the judge's old hands put the black cap on his head and begin to pronounce sentence….
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
The doctrine that none but the guiltless are entitled to pronounce sentence on guilt would put an end to censorship of every kind, but is quite in accordance with the ethical tone of the book.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
