Sentence examples for ratified for from inspiring English sources

The first women's-rights convention was held in 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, but the Nineteenth Amendment wasn't ratified for another seventy years.

That action ratified for Johnson the breathtaking powers that he would employ to send the United States military in far greater numbers into the Vietnamese quicksand, beginning in 1965.

She has actually jumped higher, clearing 15-5 at a beach competition earlier this season, but the mark was not ratified for a world record because the runway did not meet specifications.

If the Iowa date is ratified for Jan . 3 attention will turn to New Hampshire, where Secretary of State William Gardner is soon expected to set the state's primary date.

The Boston Athletic Association said it would ask scientists and medical experts for help in determining whether other characteristics of the course might mitigate its point-to-point layout and elevation drop so the course could be ratified for world record consideration.

She was Britain's first individual Olympic medallist in women's athletics, she set a high jump world record that was not ratified for nearly 20 years, and also won gold medals in the Empire (now Commonwealth) Games 12 years apart, before becoming an innovative coach who was assisted by the great ballet dancers Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes.

Russia refused to ratify for seven years, in effect consigning the treaty to the scrapheap of history until a sudden change of heart in 2004.

But here is one: the need for the United States to join the Law of the Sea Convention, a worthy global agreement that the Senate has stubbornly refused to ratify for nearly 30 years.

The Warren Court not only laid the groundwork for the civil-rights movement with its desegregation rulings; it also expanded the rights of the accused, ratifying, for example, the Miranda warnings and the right of indigents to counsel.

Under the foundation treaty, the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, at least 55 countries must ratify for the agreement to enter force, and countries accounting for at least 55% of global greenhouse gas emissions must be represented.

Though it focuses largely on America's coastal waters, its 250 recommendations include proposals for cleaning up the Great Lakes, and a fervent appeal to the Senate to drop its ridiculous opposition to the Law of the Sea, an international treaty governing ocean use that the United States has refused to ratify for 22 years.