Sentence examples for a ratifying from inspiring English sources

That ninth member would cast the deciding vote on the new districts, and the decision would be legally binding without a ratifying vote of the legislature.

Local Federalists bullied their way to a win; the State Legislature voted to summon a ratifying convention only because two members who opposed the Constitution were hustled to the Statehouse to make a quorum.

"There is a legal obligation that falls on all states to surrender Senussi to the international criminal court," said international lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice QC. "Diplomatically, the safest course would be to hand him over to France, where he would face a retrial, and once that was over France would be obliged, as a ratifying member of the ICC, to hand him over".

A ratifying country does not necessarily agree to make the human rights norm "self-executing"—that is, directly enforceable in domestic courts.

Cuomo and the W.F.P. have reached a truce, but it's more like a ceasefire than a ratified treaty.

However, most of my time is spent after my clients have a ratified contract to buy or sell a home.

Tireless lobbying in Congress (directed by Maud Wood Park) and then in state legislatures finally produced a ratified Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920.

Jacques Chirac insists that no one else can join without a ratified constitution.

This weekend, a ratified nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States went into effect, reducing and limiting each nation's allowable arsenal of nuclear weapons.

The state is unique in that no Native American tribe in California is the counterparty to a ratified federal treaty.

A ratified ERA closes that loophole and would ensure that women have an effective legal remedy for systematic pay inequity.