Sentence examples similar to ratify something from inspiring English sources

"The chance of ratifying something between now and the election is somewhere between negligible and nil," said Armacost, who held a 24-year career in the U.S. government.

Further on in the same tour, Pentangle's headlining set at The Green Man festival ratified something that had been in the air for a while.

"I think we have something that our members will ratify," he said.

They can't even ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, something Dole champions today.

A treaty requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate to ratify it, a higher hurdle than in most other countries, but something called an "executive agreement" needs only a majority vote in both houses of Congress.

The deal must still be ratified by the European Parliament, something parliament President Antonio Tajani said was likely in January.

But that act of recognition occurred before the U.S. ratified the UN Genocide Convention -- something the Reagan administration did reluctantly, says Samantha Power, following the embarrassing Bitburg scandal in April 1985.

Nevada is about to do something no state has done in three-and-a-half decades: Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

That is something the Icelandic parliamentarians need to consider when they vote next week on whether to ratify this agreement.

But despite promises to the contrary from President Obama and congressional Democrats, expect something of a repeat from the U.S. Congress, which crippled Kyoto by refusing to ratify it.

Trittin: I'm delighted that President Bush has given a clear signal with this programme that something has to be done about climate change, even if the USA still doesn't want to ratify the Kyoto protocol.