Thus, the magnanimous Prophet acknowledged that the people knew the affairs of their lives better, and ratified their common laws.
Too much information is harrowing, and the opportunity is ripe for an emissary from that simpler (and better) time who can ratify our anxieties and identify the enemy in our midst whom we can blame for the cosmic dread we feel.
UPDATE, 10 34 a.m.: On CBS's "Face the Nation," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C ., said, "If you R-S.C .want to have a chance to ratify saidT, you better start over and do If in the next Congress because this lame duck has been poisoned".
According to Mr Santos, these include measures to simplify the tax code, to offer better treatment to foreign investors and to ratify a proposed free-trade agreement with the United States.
In two weeks, world leaders will ratify a new consensus to build a better world: the sustainable development goals.
As the union had predicted, the members of Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union voted overwhelmingly yesterday to ratify the casino industry's contract offer for better wages and health care benefits.
Should they try to ratify it anyway, on the grounds that anything is better than nothing?
If Mr. Obama can draw the other nuclear powers, including China, Pakistan, India and Israel, into the discussions and persuade the Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, so much the better.
Still, Americans are just lunatic enough to elect this bad comic over the mellow singer their betters prefer, but those are the risks when you allow the public to ratify political decisions made above their heads.
A young Vietnamese man asked Mr. Obama about the failure of Congress to ratify the trade pact, and whether the prospects for the agreement would be better or worse under a new president.
