Sentence examples for essentially ratify from inspiring English sources

The fraud has become so commonplace that, as Matt Taibbi describes in shocking detail, special courts have been appointed that essentially ratify faked foreclosure documents and speed up evictions.

(The national program essentially ratifies one approved by California in 2004).

In August, the White House essentially ratified that approach, announcing that the Department of Homeland Security would, on a case-by-case basis, suspend deportation proceedings against people who posed no public safety threat.

Essentially, the results ratified by the court were, in numbers at least, the same as preliminary results announced after the March 7 vote and before a flurry of legal appeals, an assassination, candidates' disqualifications and vote recounts.

What's in reach is an autonomy settlement, some joint oversight of the Valley, that essentially gives both sides a way to ratify the status quo — the Line of Control as a de facto border, with special status for the Kashmir Valley and a few other bells and whistles.

With the United States unwilling to ratify the protocol, it was essentially Russia's ratification that satisfied the 55% clause and allowed the protocol to enter into force.

Although Mr. Hariri's victory was seen as a blow against the status quo, such is the extent of Syrian power here that his role essentially had to be ratified by Damascus.

Rather than debate policy, the role of the delegates is to ratify decisions already made by party officials behind closed doors, making the Congress essentially a rubber stamp parliament.

Ratify the Kyoto Protocol?

Constitutional amendments are notoriously difficult to ratify.

But Beijing refused to ratify the treaty.