Sentence examples for merely to ratify from inspiring English sources

Although the presidential and vice presidential candidates of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are still formally selected by national conventions, most of the delegates are selected through primaries or, in a minority of states, through caucuses and the delegates gather merely to ratify the choice of the voters.

One formality left were New York's late-in-the-season primary elections on September 12, which in this case merely served to ratify the state party conventions' choices.

But Beijing refused to ratify the treaty.

The only former Confederate state to ratify was Tennessee.

But the U.S. refuses to ratify the ICESCR.

But first it will have to ratify the treaty.

But the United States, Israel, China, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea have yet to ratify the treaty.

Constitutional amendments are notoriously difficult to ratify.

Iran has also failed to ratify it.

They refused to ratify his appointments.

The party has to ratify the choice.