Sentence examples for initially ratified from inspiring English sources
Article Two, initially ratified by seven states through 1792 (including Kentucky), was not ratified by another state for eighty years.
After Congress initially failed ratify aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, Christie went ballistic, "There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their speaker John Boehner," he said, "For me, it was disappointing and disgusting to watch".
Abraham Lincoln lost the popular vote in New Jersey in both 1860 and 1864, and the state initially refused to ratify the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which banned slavery.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) initially refused to ratify Muhammad's nomination for the Olympic team, with Cook claiming he was being "cheated" out of a place at the Games after quitting the GB programme less than 12 months earlier.
Woodward, who also serves as the BOA's head of elite performance, sat on the Team GB panel that initially refused to ratify GB Taekwondo's decision to pick world number 59 Lutalo Muhammad for the -80kg category instead of world number one Cook.
Rhode Island, fearing that the Convention would work to its disadvantage, boycotted the Convention and, when the Constitution was put to the states, initially refused to ratify it.
Sometimes changes in constitutional understandings are initially driven by the elected branches and ultimately ratified by the courts.
Needle size is measured in gauges (G), which is derived from a standardized scaling system initially designed for iron wire manufacture and recently ratified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) of medical devices [ 18, 19].
ratified the panel's findings.
"THIS protocol cannot be ratified".
