Sentence examples for ratified a decision from inspiring English sources

The World Motor Sport Council on Wednesday ratified a decision taken at a meeting of the Formula One Commission in Geneva last week.

As ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ratified a decision today to reduce oil production by 5percentthethe biggest threat to the group's efforts to artfully balance supply and demand loomed from Iraq, one of its own.

The larger GSEE union was also meeting to ratify a decision to join the strike action.

The California Supreme Court upheld a ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday, ratifying a decision made by voters last year.

May has also insisted that she does not see the need for a parliamentary vote to ratify a decision to trigger article 50.

Same-Sex Marriage THE NEWS A new battle over same-sex marriage loomed in California after the state's Supreme Court upheld a ban on the marriages, ratifying a decision made by voters last year.

The issue is a much wider one - that irrespective of the rights or wrongs of particular wars, the decision to go to war is so paramount to the life of the nation that it should be taken, and only taken, by an elected parliament on a substantive vote, and well before events had moved to such a point that parliament had little or no alternative but to ratify a decision already reached.

– (PT) The European Parliament has often been confronted with faits accomplis by the Commission or the Council, having been relegated to the role of merely ratifying a decision already taken.

The 21 countries on Unesco's world heritage committee have ratified a draft decision that the government must "ensure that commercial logging and mining are not permitted within the entire property" and that a proposed new strategy for the wilderness area is reviewed so that ecological values are fully protected.

House members also ratified a leadership decisions to make Richard W. Pombo of California the chairman of the Resources Committee.

In Paris on Thursday the senate ratified an earlier decision by the national assembly, while MPs in Denmark were holding the first reading of a motion urging the government to recognise Palestine as a state alongside Israel within its 1967 borders.