Sentence examples for managed to ratify from inspiring English sources
Fannie's board managed to ratify the firm's chief operating officer at the time, Michael Williams, as CEO in one business day after Herb Allison, who'd served as CEO since the September takeover, was tapped Friday to run TARP.
MOSCOW — Russia's president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, on Friday called the New Start treaty "a cornerstone of security for the coming decades," and spoke warmly of President Obama, saying that "under very difficult circumstances, he managed to make the Senate ratify this document".
But for the most part, the only unconventional ideas that Romney managed to enact were those that he could ratify unilaterally.
Prodded by American labor groups, some Democrats have voiced concern over the bloodshed and managed to hold up the trade agreement since President Bush ratified it in 2007, alongside similar deals struck with Panama and South Korea.
Last week, a coalition of investors managing some 13 trillion in assets called on the G20 to ratify the deal by the end of this year.
The Iranian parliament declined to ratify the deal.
The union is expected to ratify the deal Oct. 10.
But even if the sides manage to resolve their outstanding differences over verification and missile defence, serious doubts remain about Obama's ability to ratify any new treaty ahead of November's mid-term US elections.
She documents and manages their abuse cases, and, together with Human Rights Watch, is calling for Indonesia to revise its migration law and to ratify a UN convention on migrant workers.
