Departing this tribunal, I shall soon appear before another tribunal, where an eternal sentence will be passed upon me.
You have been convicted of robbery; what have you to say why sentence of death shall not be passed upon you, according to law?
Have you anything to say why this sentence of the law should not be passed upon you?
What can you possibly have to say why sentence should not be passed upon you?
Amendment, yet that point was not directly passed upon by the court, the court holding that under the laws and constitution of Georgia, the negro citizen had the right claimed.
In taking your case out of the bands of the jury, he did what he believed he had a perfect right to do; and what [HAND] provided there was no fact to be passed upon) he had precedents for doing.
The judge saith, What canst thou say for thyself that sentence of death should not be passed upon thee?
Now, since this is so, what can the condemned at the judgment say for themselves, why sentence of death should not be passed upon them?
The Clerk of the Arraigns asked the prisoners what they had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon them.
Upon his being informed that a sentence of imprisonment would be passed upon him, he implored the court rather to send him out of the country for life, declaring that he had no hope of England in its present state.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passed upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
