Sentence examples for ratified the declaration from inspiring English sources

Though never ratified, the declaration was near enough to a general consensus to be provisionally adopted by both sides when World War I broke out in 1914.

Consider the 1775-76 invasiof of Canada, America's first preemptive war, which ended just days before Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence.

The convention ratified the Declaration of Sentiments, drafted by Stanton.

County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, who represents the area, called for the emergency proclamation, saying it is necessary because of the "increasing number of concerned and displaced residents, health concerns in the community and the uncertainty of when the well will be capped". The supervisors unanimously ratified the declaration Tuesday.

In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHRR).1 The problem was that declarations by the General Assembly are not binding on member nations.

Dalton argues it is telling that the US is one of three UN member states, alongside Somalia and South Sudan, that has not ratified the UN declaration of the rights of the child.

The first was issued on July 2, 1776, shortly before New Jersey ratified the United States Declaration of Independence; the second was issued in 1844; and the current document was issued in 1947.

The state needs to ratify the universal declaration of human rights and we need to be present and to participate in policy-making and implementation.

In order for that to count as a "meaningful vote," Parliament would also have to ratify the political declaration, but that could be done by attaching it to other pieces of legislation going through.

Ratifying the U.N. Declaration of Political and Civil Rights implies that a nation is committed at a minimum to universal suffrage and more generally to equal citizenship.

Mulcair specifically committed that he would ratify the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.