Sentence examples for by ratification from inspiring English sources

But "re-signing" followed by ratification should be Obama's aim.

Nor were complaints that the Constitution is obscure silenced by ratification.

The decision was mooted (unsettled) in 1913 by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, giving Congress the power "to lay and collect taxes on incomes".

Especially in a democracy, the goal of negotiations should be to quietly reach an agreement, followed by ratification or rejection by elected legislators.

It is usually changed with the support of a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, followed by ratification by three quarters of state legislatures – an unlikely turnout with Republican dominance in the Congress.

A Constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds supermajority in both the U.S. House and Senate, followed by ratification by three fourths of the state legislatures.

The Government of Nepal had signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on 3 December 2003 followed by its ratification by the House of Representatives on 7 November 2006.

The UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, followed by its ratification by 194 States and territories around the world.

It was a doctrine finally repudiated by the Civil War and by the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868.

But reform of this system requires not only approval by Congress but ratification by the provinces.

Peter S. Kalikow, the authority's chairman, said he was gratified by the ratification vote.