Sentence examples for act to ratify from inspiring English sources

The defeated prime minister had refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol for over a decade, and the new Rudd government made a symbolic gesture with its first official act to ratify the protocol.

At the same time, the United States Congress should act now to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

As a senator, Marshall clung to Federalist principles, supporting the Alien and Sedition Acts and voting to ratify the Jay Treaty.

As the political situation deteriorated, Whitlam and his government continued to enact legislation: The Family Law Act 1975 provided for no-fault divorce while the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 caused Australia to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination that Australia had signed under Holt, but which had never been ratified.

In 1706 Scottish and English negotiators reached an agreement on unifying the island of Britain into a single state and it was up to the Scottish and English Parliaments to ratify Acts of Union.

The death penalty for treason was abolished by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, enabling the UK to ratify protocol six of the European Convention on Human Rights in 1999.

DACA was implemented because Congress was unwilling to ratify the DREAM Act, either as a stand-alone measure or as part of more comprehensive legislation.

Section 204 provides an avenue for a corporation to ratify defective corporate acts.

The amendments also authorize nonstock corporations to ratify defective corporate acts pursuant to sections 204 and 205 by amending DGCL section 114.

The amendments also make a number of changes to DGCL section 204, including changes intended to clarify the circumstances in which corporations may use section 204 to ratify defective corporate acts.

Further to the proposed changes to Section 262 of the DGCL, the Corporate Council has proposed amending Sections 204 and 205 of the DGCL to (i) clarify the circumstances in which corporations may use Section 204 to ratify defective corporate acts and (ii) allow nonstock corporations to take advantage of Sections 204 and 205, including the ratification or validation of defective corporate acts.