Sentence examples for during the ratification from inspiring English sources

That deal could still be rejected by any of the 27 national parliaments during the ratification process.

The union's leaders hired the American Arbitration Association to count the votes because of large-scale fraud that took place during the ratification vote on the previous contract.

Some of the arguments involved in its creation are preserved in the Federalist Papers, a series of polemical essays written in a white heat during the ratification process.

Hamilton wrote 51 of the 85 essays collected as The Federalist, which appeared in a variety of outlets during the ratification debates in New York.

Elections during the ratification period produced new governments in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Manitoba, none of which was enthusiastic about the Meech Lake accord.

That these tests embody different standards to the disadvantage of United Kingdom citizens was accepted by the Blair government during the ratification process, though now it appears that one of those responsible has departed from that view.

Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP 4.25pm GMT That's clear: a protesters during a rally against the ratification of a one-off tax in front of the Cypriot parliament in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Thomas F. Mackk" McLarty was chief of staff to President Bill Clinton during the NAFTA ratification fight.

Of the hundreds of times that the subject of corruption was raised during the Constitutional Convention and the ratification debates, as Lessig pointed out in an amicus brief in McCutcheon, only a handful of times — about one per cent of the time — did it mean anything as narrow as quid pro quo.

As the Treaty of Lisbon (which entered into force on 1 December 2009) had set a maximum number of 751 MEPs, to be temporarily raised to 754 until the next elections, 18 MEPs were added to the 736 elected in June 2009 during the 2009-2014 term, following the ratification by the Member States of an amending protocol adopted at the 23 June 2010 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC).

But delegates from five countries representing different blocs at the conference said during separate interviews that a consensus was quickly forming on the ratification formula.