Sentence examples for ratification on the from inspiring English sources

But once the draft was finished, no one opposed ratification on the grounds that the new government would be too weak.

Senator PHIPPS: 'I am firmly convinced that there must be voluntary ratification on the part of each interested State in order to make the compact effective.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved it unanimously in February, and there appear to be more than enough votes to ensure its ratification on the Senate floor.

The propositions of the convention are to be submitted to the people for ratification on the 22d of February, and on the 4th of March an election is to be held for Governor and members of the Legislature.

But to a democratic constitutionalist, the court was right to be cautious and bold at the same time — waiting until the E.R.A. was proposed but not waiting for its ratification, on the theory that the court's decisions could help push the country in a direction it was already moving and could help solidify the moral and legal cases for why sex discrimination was wrong.

The impasse was resolved only when revolutionary heroes and leading Anti-Federalists Samuel Adams and John Hancock agreed to ratification on the condition that the convention also propose amendments.

In particular, I want to see some movement on ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

UNICEF congratulates Pakistan on joining 100 countries in ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Islamabad, 6 June 2011 - UNICEF today congratulates Pakistan on its ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote this December on ratification of the New START Treaty, Republican legislators appear on the verge of producing an international disaster.

Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge gave Trotter a chance to testify during Senate deliberations on ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, which Lodge opposed on grounds other than Trotter's.

Meanwhile, as the ratification battle dragged on, the nation's most prominent pro-E.R.A. group, the National Organization for Women, became increasingly associated with radical feminist politics.