pronounce sentence

A: At sentencing, Judge Gaughan laid out the decisive legal question he had to answer before he could pronounce sentence.

A: At sentencing, Judge Gaughan laid out the decisive legal question he had to answer before he could pronounce sentence.

And in imagination she saw the judge's old hands put the black cap on his head and begin to pronounce sentence….

The judge has to yet to pronounce sentence.

It’s a highly dysfunctional act to pronounce sentence on a relationship without any attempt to address the issues that lead to it, but I’ve come across many such unilateral concluders in my time.