Sentence examples for in its ratification from inspiring English sources

He played a crucial role in its ratification.

The Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to all those born here, supposedly resolved the question of the status of ex-slaves, though those four million individuals were not consulted in its ratification.

Thus the Philippines pronounced in its ratification statement that UNCLOS did "not in any manner impair or prejudice the sovereignty of the Republic of the Philippines over any territory over which it exercises sovereign authority, such as the Kalayaan Islands, and the waters appurtenant thereto".

He also set the country upon a course that resulted in its ratification, in 1975, of the 1925 Geneva Protocol against the use of chemical and biological weapons and of a new Convention, negotiated in 1972, that broadened the Protocol to include severe strictures against BW.

Each initiative was dated in relation to the approval of the Kyoto protocol in 1997 and its ratification in 2005.

As a result, the PSOE played a crucial role in drafting Spain's new democratic constitution in 1978 and in campaigning for its ratification by the electorate.

Do we know why New Jersey balked at ratifying the 14th Amendment (the one that guaranteed citizenship to former slaves born in the USA), rescinding its ratification in 1868 and not re-ratifying until 2003?

Maier, a distinguished MIT historian of the Revolutionary era, relates with more authority and in more detail than ever before the long, uncertain course from the Constitution's adoption by the Constitutional Convention in 1787 until its ratification by the states in 1788 and of the Bill of Rights soon after..

He then took a highly active part in the successful campaign for the document's ratification in New York in 1788, which was a crucial step in its national ratification.

As a confirmation of its good intentions the Iranian government will continue to cooperate with the agency in accordance with the protocol in advance of its ratification; While Iran has a right within the nuclear nonproliferation regime to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes it has decided voluntarily to suspend all uranium enrichment and processing activities as defined by the I.A.E.A.

But by the nineteen-eighties the Court's opinion was being criticized on the left, too, as a failure of legal reasoning and even as a betrayal of the idea of equality, especially after the Equal Rights Amendment, first introduced in Congress in 1923, and passed by Congress in 1972, fell short of passage in the states before its ratification deadline, in 1982.