But countries can ratify with legal reservations, and the treaty language has many loopholes.
With the competition over, the winning budget was ratified with one last vote, 228-199.
Ninety years ago this month, all eyes turned to Tennessee, the only state yet to ratify with its Legislature still in session.
The treaty was ratified with strong bipartisan support and Mr. Perot was essentially finished as a national political figure.
The vote was bipartisan, and the treaty was ratified with no restrictive covenants, in accordance with the agreement reached in Moscow on Jul.
Three previous arms control treaties — Start I (1992), Start II (1996) and the Moscow Treaty (2003) — were ratified with substantial bipartisan support.
Mr. Ferry's work was ratified with the Bobbitt Prize of $10,000 for his book "Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations" (University of Chicago Press, 1999).
In November 1919 and again in March 1920 the proposal to ratify with substantial reservations was defeated, and the hope of U.S. membership disappeared, as it proved, forever.
His low profile ended when Nixon shocked the convention by selecting Agnew as his running mate — a decision ratified with little enthusiasm by the Aug. 8 convention.
Provision of health care and services to a veteran pursuant to this section ratified with respect to period beginning Feb. 1, 1992, and ending May 20 , 1992 see section 2 e) of Pub.
In 2000 the commercial possibilities of this trend were ratified with Time Inc.'s introduction of the magazine "Real Simple," and in 2005 Staples started promoting itself with an "Easy Button".
