Sentence examples for ratified for a from inspiring English sources

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.

(Note: I had previously stated McCain had joined in April. That was erroneous. He joined the board in February and was ratified for a full-term in April).

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.

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.

Rooting for Oscar nominees can take on added passion, not for the vain pleasure of seeing one's own tastes ratified but for a vision of the cinematic future the hope that artists one admires will benefit from smoother paths, brighter fortunes, and increased opportunities.

On October 15, 2016, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACPP) ratified a resolution for a moratorium on charter schools.

Britain has allowed the three to be removed under an extradition treaty which the US has failed to ratify for its own nationals.

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 same happened in 1972, and in 1982 the Anglican church failed to ratify a proposal for a "Covenant for Visible Unity" that was favoured by the United Reformed Church and the Moravian Church as well as by the Methodists.