Unfortunately, the diverging negotiating positions of rich and poor countries that have emerged since the Copenhagen summit make it less likely that a binding treaty will be agreed upon and ratified by 2012.
An assessment of the proposed new NBA collective bargaining agreement...with the acknowledgement that the final details have yet to be ironed out, ratified and voted upon by owners and players alike.
Today it is the most widely agreed-upon international human rights document in existence, ratified by 193 countries.
The Cartesian suggestion that we should begin by trying to doubt everything appears to be an attempt to step outside this context, relying upon no beliefs that we have not ratified though reflective inquiry.
Once matters such as rule changes and credit points have been discussed and agreed upon within the faculty, they need to be ratified by one or more university committees, all of which may take more than a year.
Given the conservative opposition to the Convention, it is ironic that, even if it were ratified by the U.S. Senate, it would have little immediate impact upon the United States.
But he could acquire the rights and privileges pertaining to the office; and they were conferred upon him, apparently by the Senate, whose action was then ratified by the popular assembly.
An Order of Lenin (an award for special services, ratified by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R). was bestowed upon the Yasnaya Polyana museum complex in 1978.
According to Black, the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, "incorporated" the Bill of Rights, or made it binding upon the states as well.
The agreement, which needs to be ratified by both the EU and its member states, would take effect upon ratification by two thirds of all WTO members.
The treaty, known as the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, was agreed upon by more than 130 nations in January 2000 but could not take effect until formally ratified by 50 nations.
