Sentence examples for pass sentences from inspiring English sources

Below these are courts of first instance, courts of judicial proceedings (which do not pass sentences), penal courts, and municipal courts.

The federal government's power to improve prison conditions is limited, says Augusto Rossini, a senior official at the justice ministry: it is judges who pass sentences, and states that run prisons.But the government is trying to do what it can.

Mr. Geoghan's murder robs his other victims of their day in court, but it should also offend every citizen's sense of justice: we do not leave it for prisoners to pass sentences and carry them out.

It is beyond me why judges are still able to pass sentences of 'Al Dali' in our courts, even though it is clearly prohibited in the Koran.

The international justice system should be able to carry out its work in an independent manner and should under no circumstances pass sentences based on possible repercussions in the countries affected.

The kingdom's judiciary is composed of clerics of the strict Sunni Wahhabi school, which reviles Shiism as heretical and allows judges extensive scope to interpret Islamic law and pass sentences as they see fit.

The judge will pass sentence today.

The trial judge will pass sentence in the next few weeks.

Magistrates and judges will then have information about offenders' behaviour when they come to pass sentence.

"It is not my job to make the laws or pass sentence on players.

"Pass sentence," he says, "and let us get on with our lives".