Sentence examples for ratifies a from inspiring English sources

CAIRO — An administrative court on Tuesday suspended a committee appointed to draft a new constitution, all but guaranteeing that Egypt will elect a president before it ratifies a new charter, and raising the stakes in the race.

Now 62, a gray-haired grandfather decades removed from his youth as the teenage prodigy of Washington Square Park, Mr. Statman has finally achieved the kind of acclaim that ratifies a career.

Some co-op lawyers say that while the decision authoritatively ratifies a co-op board's power to manage the affairs of its building without judicial interference, there is a good possibility the case will be overturned on appeal.

The early answer, repeated many times since, was no: powers that the constitution assigns to Congress cannot be given away to others, except by constitutional amendment or by Congress's own say-so; and even when Congress ratifies a treaty, it can continually override its operations by, for example, refusing to provide any money.

Currently held in prison for violating bail conditions, Mr. Othman, who is of Palestinian descent, has said he would leave Britain voluntarily if Jordan ratifies a new treaty with Britain this summer banning the use of torture-tainted evidence in a retrial that Jordan plans on the bombing charges.

When they made treaties the law of the land, they were saying — according to an interpretation of Chief Justice John Marshall's that dates back to 1829 — that the moment the Senate ratifies a treaty, it automatically becomes the supreme law of the land, binding in every court in the nation.

Mr. Brill's success ratifies an investing approach that seemed unorthodox and untried in 1993.

The Paris pact ratifies an ongoing renewable energy revolution spreading across the globe.

Yalta did not ratify a natural divide.

Parliament ratified a protocol on reforming the European Court of Human Rights on Friday.

A referendum should only ratify a negotiated solution.