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Examples of ratify
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All local governments must ratify a debt policy by the end of the calendar year.
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The Constitution requires approval by 67 of the 100 senators to ratify a treaty.
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It is right for America's Senate to ratify the New START nuclear-weapons treaty.
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Shamefully, the United States did not ratify the genocide convention until 1988.
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The agreement means pilots could vote to ratify the contract within three weeks.
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The member jurisdictions have until the end of the year to ratify the resolution.
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Slovakia, one of the poorest members of the EU, is expected to ratify the EFSF.
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For one, the necessary treaty changes would take years to negotiate and ratify.
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India's legislature doesn't need to separately ratify the deal, South Korea said.
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- Sign: approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?"
- (ratification) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it; "the ratification of the treaty"; "confirmation of the appointment"
- (ratified) formally approved and invested with legal authority
- Ratification is the approval by the principal of an act of its agent where the agent lacked authority to legally bind the principal. The term applies to private contract law, international treaties, and constitutionals in federations such as the United States and Canada.
- To give formal consent to; make officially valid
- (ratification) the act or process of ratifying, or the state of being ratified; a formal declaration of agreement to a treaty etc
- (Ratification) The process used by an agency's contracting officers to approve and legitimize an otherwise proper contract made by an individual without contracting authority.
- (Ratification) Formal approval, often by a Parliament or other national legislature, of a convention, protocol, or treaty, enabling a country to become a Party. Ratification is a separate process that occurs after a country has signed an agreement. ...
- (Ratification) The act approving an amendment to the United States Constitution.
