The final tally of countries taking part may be lower than the 23 initially announced, as governments struggle to ratify a document that is woefully lacking in detail.
The act would also ratify an older document, the Crow Tribe-Montana Water Rights Compact, which makes the Crow tribe's water rights junior to the state of Montana, said Mr. White Clay.
Not long after U.K. firm McKinsey & Co authored a December 2015 document about moving Saudi Arabia beyond its dependence on oil, the Saudi cabinet ratified a very similar plan for economic reform called "Vision 2030".
The Cultural Property Implementation Act of 1983 gives the feds the power, among other things, to seize artifacts documented in the inventory of archeological sites or museums of countries that ratified a 1970 Unesco convention on illicit antiquities.
Well, they ratified a commercial treaty with Sweden.
Holacratic organizations ratify a constitution a living document outlining the rules by which circles are created, changed, and removed.
Ukraine's parliament has ratified an agreement that will integrate the country with the European Union – the same document which the former president Viktor Yanukovych backed out of signing last year, leading to protests that ended in revolution.
All spacefaring nations, as well as many other nations, have ratified the Outer Space Treaty, a document that outlines a number of principles for human activity in space.
The Turkish parliament recently ratified the document, which provides a legal framework for the construction and operation of the pipeline.
Republican delegates ratified that document at the very convention they would nominate Donald J. Trump, a man who allegedly had an affair with an actual porn star and paid her $130,000 to be quiet about it, to be their candidate for president of the United States.
This document is intended as a starting point of discussion, which will hopefully eventually result in a formally ratified document that will be useful for communication between health professionals, the design of clinical trials and for guiding treatment decisions and prognostication for veterinary patients with seizures.
