pronounce sentence

He looked like a stern judge about to mount the tribunal to pronounce sentence with inexorable severity on some execrable crime.

I felt like a judge who had to pronounce sentence upon him—dooming his dearest hopes to painful and instant death.

As I have said, God's laws pronounce sentence of death upon idolatry, without exception of any person.

The king bade the council to examine into the matter at once and pronounce sentence.

The Pope, he went on, “would never dare pronounce sentence, unless it favoured the Emperor.”