City lodged an offer of the same amount on Saturday but, according to the Leeds chairman, Ken Bates, the club's English-based hierarchy then had to get ratification from their owners in Abu Dhabi and asked for the talks to be shelved for a week.
That seems too difficult to contemplate after years of agony in getting ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, which amended the original E.U. agreements.
Congress in 1978 passed the DC Voting Rights Constitutional Amendment, which would have given the District voting representation in the House and Senate, but the measure failed to get the required ratification from 38 states in the seven-year time limit set by Congress.
So even participating in the Convention was a big deal that required serious debate, and we haven't even gotten to ratification yet.
Darren Hawkins, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, agrees that "most scholars have posited that [developing countries] are getting some reward from powerful Western states" for treaty ratification.
The deal is subject to ratification from the Football League.
Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins & Beth Simmons, "Getting to Rights: Treaty Ratification, Constitutional Convergence, and Human Rights Practice University of Chicago Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper No.o. 434, 2013).
"The landlords will say, 'This is governmental ratification, and I'm going to use it to sue and evict dog owners and raise the rent.' Until now, I've never had a client get a violation from the city for barking.
On the day of the Bundestag's ratification, (the reforms) were once again getting a rough ride in the plenary session of the Central Committee.
As for New Start's ratification, Mr. Medvedev expressed confidence "in the president getting it done," the official said.
